Mayhem Prompts 007

Mayhem Prompts 007

1751-1775 

04-May 11:35

1751 He may have been great. He was still a bastard.

1752 I wonder about my father's desires

1753 Like passers-by on a wild, windy night.

1754 How these windows glow

1755 Once I told you of my dreams

1756 The darkness deep in the forest

1757 The C-Word, obviously

1758 The less I say, the better

1759 How hate should be released slowly

1760 Trying every kind of tea except the stuff that tastes like shit

1761 The intricacies of a dry-stone wall

1762 Blood, feathers, the stink of dying

1763 The rumour is more or less verified

1764 AEROSOL

1765 I need a reason to go out

1766  Poems About Bears

1767 GARLIC

1768 Fiddler

1769 My incomprehension takes years of dedication

1770 Let's go to an island

1771 Cleaning Out the Spare Room

1772 SOCK

1773 The outside sound of throbbing diesel 

1774 TINSEL

1775 Just for the exercise, imagine me with a soul

Mayhem Prompts 006

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Mayhem Prompts 006 

1726-1750

02-May 08:30

1726 Learning to Like Green Tea
1727 Tram
1728 PLAY The Birdie Song on repeat, listen four times then write white screen
1729 She probably deserved it
1730 The Selfish Gene Wears a Blue Tie

1731 Negotiating with ex-wives
1732 Ping-Pong
1733 I am making things square
1734 Some seek out thorns
1735 Do you remember, how in the past ...

1736 Yesterday I ran a mile
1737 Low fat something or other
1738 Going forward, with my sister, towards my father's body
1739 Jesus Loves You, but doesn't give a fuck about me
1740 Learning to make dragons 

1741 You cannot always see the blossom
1742 Now University costs £19,000 per term...
1743 CHEESE
1744 The Unnecessary Existence of Gravity
1745 The Solution to Pollution is Dilution

1746 I will learn to live without you
1747 If I could rise from here I would smite you down
1748 BLACK
1749 I hope to come back as a parasite
1750 Various Incidents Concerning My Penis

Mayhem Prompts 003

Mayhem Prompts 003

1651-1675 

27-Apr 23:06

1651 You're never alone with a Strand

1652 Not even slightly naked

1653 It is important that you hear my voice

1654 At night, in Mayfair

1655 Father Maloney

1656 Letter from Bengal

1657 A Flax Hacker from Washbrew Lane

1658 700 Loaves

1659 I would prefer to be beautiful

1660 Something is moving in there

1661 We live in ruins, as quietly as we can

1662 BALLOON

1663 Thomas McLintock's Will

1664 My Angry Shadow

1665 Afterwards, we would not speak on Sundays

1666 Her favourite word was "undulate"

1667 A sky ablaze, a wind on fire

1668 USK

1669 Have you seen this already?

1670 Big Jim Potato 

1671 In Praise of Pyjamas

1672 The Distance Between Friends

1673 The third and fourth child are sub-standard, the fifth defective

1674 Window Shopping, Babycham, back for 11.

1675 That'll Be the Day

Mayhem Prompts 002

Mayhem Prompts 002

1626-1650 

26-Apr 23:13

1626 Bathsheba Evans and the boy Jenkins

1627 The C-Word

1628 I am feeling a little queer

1629 Green Glass

1630 Three years we waited, always on our guard

1631 It's because you live in a council-house and eat margarine

1632 Various wild creatures

1633 I didn't know they were my friends

1634 Any old iron?

1635 We grow old, we grow old

1636 In the spaces between seconds

1637 CUCKOO

1638 The fire-escape clangs with boot-falls

1639 The wives of Senghennydd

1640 HOVIS

1641 From the hill I saw a slated tenement

1642 They have come a long way to die

1643 Mountbatten's Boys

1644 Run it under a cold tap, love

1645 BAYONET

1646 Folded flags and white gloves

1647 Spectacles, Testicles, Wallet & Watch

1648 Cheese and Conversation

1649 And for their sins, a fine, twenty-four pounds

1650 The echoes of old love

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Mayhem Prompts 001  

1601-1625 

26-April, 08:38 Sunday 

1601 Muesli, with a sprinkle of gunpowder

1602 To stand alone, quiet, barefoot on grass, listening to a warm, fat night

1603 When the world was two-thirds red

1604 Treacle

1605 Deserts, mountains, bloated rivers

1606 The first time, blue snow

1607 If the sea was impossible, if daylight burned us

1608 China, Australia

1609 The sadness of discarded clothes

1610 Now, after a storm, while the world is fat and electric

1611 Jane Cliche and Alex Stock

1612 Basalt, Granite

1613 To be swept up into the magnificence

1614 Whatever is in wind, it isn't joy

1615 Tragedies become footnotes

1616 There is something about islands

1617 Colander

1618 No truth is hidden

1619 The happiness behind the painted smile

1620 Take advantage of our half-price offer

1621 You wore red, always red, and the world was monochrome

1622 There is tangential love or you can have sets

1623 Cauliflower

1624 The first time you fell down, you laughed

1625 Storms always subside

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March Madness

 2015-0064 

 (Mar 15 2015) 

 07:50 Sunday

1576 Tin-Baths and Satellite Dishes

1577 God told me to kill the child.

1578 Greeks fighting Serbs fighting Croats, Bulgarians

1579 The homeless under sacks, the coughs in alleyways

1580 A woman in perfect beige on a horse shining black

1581 Apparently we have things called hormones

1582  New Year's Eve, 1913

1583 They are putting sawdust down, then mud, feathers

1584 Bulletinss from bigots

1585 The dirty smell of stale beer and men

1586 Well, officially it was a war, but only 10,000 dead

1587 It will be better with SKY and European Games

1588 Those conceived with neither love nor hate

1589 Beautiful women carry great sadness

1590 Whistler, Gaugin, Monet, Pissarro, 1903. Picasso

1591 A swell time, fat steaks, good beer, the lads

1592 Slate is never clean

1593 A page of news tumbling over in the wind

1594 Fucking in his Rediffusion Van

1595 McDonald's from two hundred yards away

1596 There's an Italian bloke down on Lavernock Point

1507 Renting furnished for quicker getaways

1598 All we have is rugby and fighting sergeants

1599 The fag-end of a Tuesday night

1600 Except, accidentally, about once in ten years, someone gets out

63 and Counting

2015-0063 

 (Mar 12 2015) 17:42 (Thursday)

1551 Everything that has been gathered will be ungathered

1552 Think of it like surfing on the biggest ever fucking wave

1553 Dec 26, National Suicide Day

1554 A box, they long, they wide, any old shit

1555 It is the smallest things we miss.

1556 Before something, nothing, then a growing something

1557 There's somewhere else to visit

1558 When the field is fallow it disgusts

1559 Do not stand at my grave and pee.

1560 Turn off the internet, pause. Make the television dark.

1561 Not weeping. Jump in and party!

1562 Cold gravy, a solid skim of fat

1563 I do not welcome sky, not welcome stars

1564 Spirit to substance to spirit with echo.

1565 I'll think about it, especially on cold, rainy nights

1566 Culmination, Celebration

1567 How can her absence swell in the room, how?

1568 This is a poor, dull thing, and we are less because of it.

1569 A little pain, OK, but just a little

1570 This diminishes us

1571 Denial, Anger, Blah-blah-blaah, Acceptance

1572 Six feet, no make it eight for safety

1573 Lovers, sail to us, from us, but love is the wind

1574 You'll remember me. I'll make sure of that,

1575 The dead depart, or is it us moving on?

Prompts 062

March Madness

2015-0062 (Mar 10 2015) 11:42 

(For Wednesday Morning) 

1526 My leg comes off on Monday

1527 I was older than this, a few years ago

1528 Father Maloney's Glass Eye

1529 TURKEY

1530 She has a new zimmer frame

1531 My heart shall be replaced by granite

1532 I will be stuffed and behind glass

1533 His dick gunmetal, waiting to be polished

1534 This is the time of the wolf

1535 Jesus, Jesus, Mary and somebody else

1536 A Darkness of Sisters

1537 Morning light stretches, Evenlight swells

1538 CUCKOO

1539 I would like to be a Jones, with three initials

1540 I am wounding time

1541 It's not long until four; this is the time of the sad

1542 CHEESE

1543 Yes, Geese, about two hundred, like bombers

1544 He woke in an Algiers brothel, his pockets empty

1545 Body Bags, but pretty colours

1546 Here they come, the exiled smokers, poets

1547 BRIDAL

1548 At the edge of my desk, a thousand-foot drop

1549 DIESEL

1550 Play with honour, finish with pride

2015-061

March Madness

2015-0061 

 (Mar 09 2015) 10:29 (For Tuesday Morning)

1501 I woke early enough

1502 There's a man I hate, talking on the radio

1503 Last Post

1504 The Next Forty Years

1505 A dozen mechanics, but never enough

1506 I am not present in the list of Welsh Poets

1507 John William Jones, Postman

1508 PORTER!

1509 The Invisible Gentleman From Yokohama

1510 Late of this parish

1511 The Scarlet Pimpernel

1512 Mother, Mother, I have tried my best

1513 It is cold on this corner, often wet

1514 JUNE!

1515 Power But Very Little Glory

1516 If anyone will listen, I will relate my adventures

1517 It is with great regret that I have to inform you...

1518 Meeting Evan

1519 It was the last day in August

1520 At some point the voice will change

1521 The nearest description would be "blob"

1522 Turnips, Turnips, Turnips

1523 I approach the problem with grit and determination

1524 Cheerio, old chap

1525 We met up by the reservoir

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March Madness

2015-0060 

 (Mar 09 2015) 07:01 

1476 Doves, pomegranates, peacocks

1477 Once I imagined having ethics

1478 There should be a patron saint of wankers

1479 I climb from my book and taste the dull world

1480 I remember he wore a white shirt and had difficulty breathing

1481 The distant murder of the great guns

1482 You're not dead, but I wouldn't call you healthy

1483 Books full of dead poets, well forgotten

1484 I am in love with Sarah Palin

1485 Singapore Burning

1486 In the New Yorker

1487 Bakelite

1488 The White Heat of that moment

1489 Honey, money (a fiver, apparently)

1490 Being bad is not the point; doing my best is.

1491 Family, Modernity, Consumerism

1492 A Graphics Issue

1493 Bluebells never ring

1494 In all a quiet affair, but an affair, still

1495 The love that was love yesterday

1496 The red-headed women of Dinas Mawddwy

1497 Sacrament

1498 If I'm not there early, I'll be late

1499 a fact confirmed by a jury of married women

1500 We are here to watch the battle, and later bleach their bones

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2015-0059 (Mar 08 2015) 

11:31 (Sunday 1451-1475)

1451 What Ray said

1452 Swans, Geese, Ducks, a sky like silver paper

1453 The passing bells

1454 “Welcome to the Pleasure Dome”

1455 RED BUCKET

1456 Remembering, Owls, Pussy-cats, dirty British Coasters

1457 Whistling in the shower

1458 I need to rest for a while. Call me tomorrow

1459 You may call me Tom but my name is Tomas, no H

1460 RELAX

1461 Shirley Temple

1462 I would suggest the time is upon us

1463 Dropping as death upon the smallest life.

1464 Henrietta insists she will not come.

1465 You call this a storm? Try harder!

1466 Point A

1467 This is less elastic than I hoped

1468 I do not want my father to go gently, the rage is mine

1469 A straight line is not always the shortest way

1470 A Friendly No

1471 Spiders, Flies, Crocodiles, that sort of thing

1472 Dirty Call Service

1473 May we borrow your wife?

1474 The sea is quietening, it will be calm soon

1475 Bread Rising and my Sunday is filling up

March Madness

Prompt Set

2015-0056 (Mar 04 2015) 12:01 

(Wednesday 1376-1400) 

1376 I have often wondered, then forgotten

1377 TINKLE

1378 Sinew, Spleen

1379 What drips, what floats, what stutters and coagulates?

1380 Yes, Mrs Blenkinsop.

1381 Ice-Sugar mountains, dark green below

1382 The Distillery

1383 Mature manure.

1384 Eating like Romans

1385 Slow things ache, and will crumble. Just wait.

1386 My bed had a blue headboard, a transferred galleon

1387 Red Kites, Magpies

1388 Leaves, the randomness of gold light

1389 Write from the side of your mouth, use the corner of the eye

1390 Moth, butterfly

1391 Recalled in a dream

1392 A shit I will not give.

1393 The child falls

1394 Demotic, Idetic, totemic etcetera

1395 Put an LP on the turntable, pour the wine

1396 Just say whatever doesn't pop into your head

1397 Ice-Cream, Blood

1398 Consider this an anchor

1399 Write, or preferably, bleed

1400 How can day be darker than the night?

More Jan-Blast Success

A flash shortlisting takes BC to three hits pieces written in the January Blast (with more to come!)

And we have a winner!!

You may recall the Boot Camp January Blast


Well, we have already had a £75 Third Place for a poem
and today we announce we have the winner of £700

First Place in the Sentinel Annual Poetry Prize.


Well, that is us ahead for the year and everything to come will be a bonus.



Folk, it works.

March prompts 4

Boot Camp Keegan March Do

PROMPTS

 2015-0055

 (Mar 03 2015) 10:07

1351 They say depression is a physical thing
1352 What if weather is the world talking?
1353 The wonderful dust
1354 Coming down the middle of the street, brazen
1355 Howitzer

1356 Make me some mash and mint-gravy. Fuck the rest
1357 Let me be blunt, being old is shit.
1358 When night spins and cries
1359 I feel a poem not coming on
1360 We expected her on the hour or shortly thereafter

1361 Eany-Meany-Miney-Mo
1362 There is a certain grammar to our mutual hatred
1363 Wall Street burns
1364 Counting dead stars
1365 Jim Bowie, and the man with the racoon-tailed hat

1366 I will marry late, or perhaps be a monk
1367 He may have been called Franscois
1368 Let us call this an exercise in revenge
1369 A White Rolls-Royce
1370 Peter Piper Picked a Fucking Pepper

1371 When Colin Hicks lost an eye
1372 Fold the flag slowly
1373 I may learn to like The Independent
1374 Scrumping on The Thousand Acres
1375 Sudoku in the centre-spread, bile everywhere else
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March Prompts 3

Boot Camp Keegan's March Thing

2015-0054 

(Mar 02 2015) 08:07 

1326 Morning cinders, the small rituals
1327 TIN
1328 The clock in great granddad's house
1329 Coal-house, out-house, alleys
1330 Please don't turn around

1331 Brass tools, scuttles, gas-pokers, chilblains
1332 You are both eight, swimming together
1333 Love can choke too
1334 Chestnuts, crumpets, ash, a focus
1335 The terrible memory of older pains

1336 Rolling beneath dispassionate light
1337 QUIVER
1338 There was something about coal
1339 Pantry, sink, milk on the doorstep
1340 When your mother was a virgin

1341 God is a little unwell
1342 Your closed frontiers
1343 The debris under cliffs
1344 Smaller, quicker than a ferret's dick
1345 Twigging

1346 Behind us, waiting, was a small TV
1347 The day geometry failed
1348 Coke Joke
1349 For no particular reason, I think you should suffer
1350 When telephones were black and waited for news

March prompts 2

Boot Camp Keegan

March "Do"

Prompt Set 2

015-0053 (Mar 01 2015) 

09:45 

1301 Beech, Birch, Spruce
1302 Hey, Mum, guess what I named after you!
1303 Flashbulbs, Hyenas, waiting sheep.
1304 A few small steps
1305 Pearl Harbour, Iwo Jima,

1306 Blood flows in us as we sleep
1307 How promises should be broken
1308 The check-list for Enola Gay
1309 The doctor is ready for you now
1310 We are made by spirits. In some the spirit stays

1311 We sit at a midnight table, cold
1312 There is some logic in that. Not a lot, but some
1313 What is left to say when love is murdered?
1314 Coiled like a cobra
1315 We are going to the zoo. They have Popes and Bankers there

1316 You can read about it in books
1317 The way darkness swells and slowly shifts
1318 VOMIT
1319 A clean nurse in a starched dress
1320 Grey shorts, pullover, grey socks, blue tie

1321 Then we heard the call again
1322 A sheepskin coat looks best on a sheep
1323 The aeroplane shines until it hits the sea
1324 How to pick a scab
1325 Your mother is waiting on the verandah

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PROMPTS 2015-052

March Shin-Dig 001


Feb 28 2015 11:15 (Saturday)


1276 It was Saturday night, Sunday, about two a.m.
1277 Write a story "driven by" a specific poem of your choice
1278 This is as good a reason as any to look up
1279 She moves towards me, cheekbones, legs
1280 A story ending: "He walks away, becoming smaller."

1281 Fish, baskets, bones
1282 We die, or we become invisible
1283 Do not trust happiness
1284 Twenty-four days behind a locked steel door
1285 The real pain in a phantom limb

1286 The case of metal in your mouth, the thoughts
1287 I just want to speak to my mother again.
1288 The widow has left us too
1289 A story beginning: "There is no need for you to stop and listen."
1290 In an old woman's dead house, webs are ugly. In morning frost, God.

1291 On the mountain, a screaming
1292 Snowdrops, Crocuses from far away
1293 Dresden
1294 Past old, past faded, somehow still not dead
1295 Pale cost-clerks with very small dreams

1296 Walking round town with "For Sale" written on my head
1297 I dream I climb trees, then leap at clouds
1298 What is left in the boot of my car
1299 How a body strikes the ground after falling
1300 Something will happen soon. It's bound to. Someone will come.


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Prompts: Feb 1st

Boot Camp

January Flash Blast

2015-0049 (Feb 1 2015) 07:43 (Sunday)

1201 Who will identify you?

1202 Put a record on the juke box, my Marlene

1203 Sand pouring through the gap

1204 The smell of late night buses

1205 I would rather be scared with friends than brave alone

1206 Mine will be a small death, hardly noticed

1207 The footprints left in ash

1208 Roll up your sleeves, pull the child free

1209 I leave one arm to feed the insects

1210 I am forty-seven and forty-eight

1211 Is it my body that you want, or me?

1212 Something about ice-cream and how they make the flavours

1213 We need more cliche

1214 Let us invite seven spinsters up for tea

1215 What is not

1216 I've started, so I'll do my best to finish

1217 I would be a U-Boat Captain, with five days of beard

1218 Summer, but ticks in the grass

1219 I could have been a private dick, a shamus with a dirty hat

1220 Musician, torturer; musician, murderer; musician, you.

1221 The concussion of the unexpected blast

1222 Adrenaline

1223 Keep saying we were right: as the tanks roll over us

1224 When we fucked in my Cortina

1225 I almost rang your bell

Saturday Jan 31st

Boot Camp

January Flash Blast

2015-0048 (Jan 31 2015) 07:25 (Saturday)

1176 BPPV

1177 The children are gone, the drawers are full of pencils

1178 Going to See Wednesday

1179 McLintock said the world would end yesterday, and he was never wrong

1180 They're discounting shit this weekend

1181 An afternoon of ghosts, rain on the tin-roof

1182 You can't know the world continues, only you think it does

1183 She said I had nice handwriting

1184 Rarely, a woman takes your breath away and you feel smaller

1185 I was left behind a curtain, hearing violins

1186 How it must have been, the terror

1187 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 

1188 the gleaming brown of a perfect conker

1189 I like the one about the coaster, not sure about Quinquereme

1190 Something about a man painting a wall

1191 I selected marble. It turned out to be flames

1192 We are distracted by your silences, speak!

1193 My other had an old bag, turned out to be her sister

1194 Everyone should experience dying

1195 How nice it would be if before, we met the men we'd kill

1196 What I miss the most is you, Good Morning Daddy!

1197 Four ways to go and a million ways between

1198 A man in his garden, potatoes in the ground

1199 The wind against the prison walls

1200 Oh my love is like a clump of weeds