In recent times I’ve been posting my two-year-old daughter’s artistic endeavours on my blog on a Thursday. But this week I’ve switched to Wednesday. This is partly because today is the last day of September and while I still have six more pieces from ‘The September Sessions’ (which, for the uninitiated, is a series of…
Month: September 2020
A Cinquain About How To Write An Acceptable If Unspectacular Cinquain
Cinquain It has five lines There are other rules too But the main rule is just five lines Simple
An Epigram That May Not Actually Be An Epigram
And so to write an epigram To show what a tremendous wit I am High upon the pedestal I sit And you can see I’m full of… …something that rhymes with wit
An Ode To Odes
I’m partial to an ode It’s not hard to see why Though it follows a code You only need comply With rules about the rhymes And it’s quite a simple scheme Though easy to get wrong Which we all do sometimes But the ode still reigns supreme When it can be sung like a song
A Haiku About When It Is Time To Stop Writing Even If All You Are Trying To Write Is A Haiku
Although I am tired I still managed to write this Perhaps unwisely
A Tanka About Tanks
When condemning tanks As just brutal war machines One often forgets The fact that tanks also make Some lovely homes for goldfish
The September Sessions – 2 of 9
Hello and welcome back to ‘Artist’s Corner’, the bit of my blog that is currently paying tribute to the peerless artistic talents of my 2-year-old daughter. I say peerless, but in all honesty I’ve never seen any of the art that her peers produce. If indeed she has peers. Can you have peers when you’re…
A Poem About How To Rhyme When Writing A Poem
When trying to rhyme, it isn’t a crime To use the same word twice Or thrice or quatrice Quatrice is not a real word But it isn’t all that absurd To make up words If you poetate with a valid license But never poetate without a license Otherwise people won’t be able to tell That…
A Haiku About The Benefits Of The Brevity Of Haikus
Some people dislike Overly long poetry I understanza
A Rambling Post About Some Stuff And Also Some Other Stuff
Hello people who read this blog. I hope you are well. I’m writing this on Sunday evening, although this post, if I finish it, will not hit the blogosphere until Monday morning. Probably at 5am, as that seems to be the fairly arbitrary time I generally elect to schedule my posts to appear. I used…
A Tanka About A Tankard
Is there a vessel More noble than the tankard From which to drink beer? It does seem doubtful because Most glasses have no handle
A Haiku About A Sociopsychological Phenomenon Rubbing Salt Into The Wound
Failure is just a Self-fulfilling prophesy So it’s all your fault
A Sonnet About Writing A Sonnet That Is More Pentametric Than It Is Iambic
To write a sonnet well is no mean feat It is a testament to rhyming skills Without overlooking a rhythmic beat That endures for no less than fourteen lines Though iambically it may be flawed A pentameter can be maintained thus So one should not find oneself overawed Even Shakespeare had need to break the…
The September Sessions – 1 of 9
Hello and welcome to a very special edition of ‘Artist’s Corner’. You join me as I witness the creation of a masterpiece. Little Proclaims has permitted me to observe as she puts together the finishing touches to the ‘September Sessions’, a project that she began in earnest last week while feeling slightly unwell. Although she…
A Tanka About Writing A Tanka
Writing a tanka Is a bit like writing haikus For three lines at least Then you add another bit And one more line to end it
A Villanelle About Trying To Write A Villanelle
I wanted to improve my poetry So I tried to write a villanelle I thought it would be easy The first stanza went quite well But I slowly began to see It was difficult to foretell How successful I might be Whether I could really excel Or was this form beyond me? I knew I…
I’ve Finally Achieved My Dream
Last week I disappeared from the blogosphere for a few days. You may not have noticed. Why would you? I’m not a blogger of any particular consequence. Besides, even though I wasn’t really around, my writing still was, as I made use of the rather helpful ‘scheduling’ feature on WordPress and my posts appeared everyday,…
An Ode To Writer’s Block
Today I lacked a muse There was nothing to inspire I searched the room for cues To lift me out the mire But of writer’s block cures There was not much to choose Nothing to light the fire So my writers block endures
A Haiku About The Morning After Feeling Without The Fun Of The Night Before
I drink less beer now But my toddler ensures that Hangovers endure
A Haiku About Getting Slightly Older
Late nights and parties Were once my weekends but nowI doze in a chair
Let’s Chalk It Up
Hello and welcome to Artist’s Corner. Regular readers will know that, of late, this has been the bit of my blog on which I have been posting the various artistic endeavours of my two-year-old daughter. And while she continues to enjoy putting washable felt-tip pen to paper, I’m not currently at home as much as…
You’ll Never Get More Readers Without Doing This
Hello, I’m James and this is my blog, ‘James Proclaims’. Every Wednesday, for the last few months, I have been writing disingenuous posts with click-bait titles. While my motivation has always been fairly tongue-in-cheek, I did start doing this partly to see if it made any difference to my overall stats. I don’t massively care…
Exclusive! An Interview With James Proclaims
For the last five years, little has been known about the mysterious figure behind the multi-award nominated blog, ‘James Proclaims’. Apart from the blog posts of course. But what can you really tell about a person from a blog post? Well, possibly quite a lot. Or maybe nothing at all. Have the utterings of the…
My Toddler Still Thinks I’m An Idiot
Back in June I wrote a post called My Toddler Thinks I’m An Idiot. Essentially I recounted how my wife and I were attempting to bring our daughter up to be bilingual in French and English. We were always quietly confident about the English bit of that particular ambition, what with English being our first language…
A Haiku About the Limitations Of Haikus
I have much to say But seventeen syllables Can be reductive
A Haiku About Problem-Solving
A problem if shared Is not always cut in half Sometimes it doubles
A Haiku About Time
Often when time flies Certain assumptions are made But deadlines aren’t fun
Pink
Hello and welcome to another Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog that I’m currently loaning out to my two-year-old daughter so that she has a forum in which to share her artistic endeavors. Ever the innovator, this week she has moved from white A4 paper to expressing herself on pink A4 paper. As always,…
The World’s Most Difficult Riddle? Only 10% Of People Who Tried This Could Solve It
Hello, I’m James and this is my blog, ‘James Proclaims’. I enjoy a riddle as much as anyone, but you won’t find one here. Certainly you won’t find the ‘World’s Most Difficult Riddle’. I don’t know what that is. But I would imagine that if 10% of people can solve a riddle then it would…
All Blog And No Blog Makes Blog A Blog Blog
Happy September everyone! It’s not actually September as I write this, but I am planning on posting this on the first day of September. Because, without wishing to ruin the magic for anyone, sometimes I write my posts ahead of time. Anyway, although I’m writing this on the 29th August 2020, it will be September…
James Proclaims! 