two poems —

two poems — 

'so he jumped from a high branch' 
& 
'the room is full of dark collective' 


on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ashley.bovan/posts/519060181464860


on Google Plus
https://plus.google.com/116450544217588105672/posts/JtLofUh79jt


on WordPress
http://ashleybovan.wordpress.com/2013/04/28/two-poems-so-he-jumped-from-a-high/

Youtube Update

four videos uploaded to YouTube

CowgirlSand_Solo_Backing_Track_~_Version_2_-_Neil Young
http://youtu.be/5ayyWDfj__Q

BackingTrack_-_Summer_Day_Reflection_Song_-_Donovan
http://youtu.be/TLnij4a3ONI

nothing 
http://youtu.be/sUrlKHPvPPQ

CowgirlSand_Solo_Backing_Track_-_Neil_Young (version 1)
http://youtu.be/QkvESHV8JpQ


moved over from my old, now defunct, channel

Arseny Tarkovsky

great poem

I dreamed this dream and I still dream of it 

- Arseny Tarkovsky, 1907 - 1989

https://plus.google.com/116450544217588105672/posts/bepM82DgV1Z

Reblogged - Yay!

that's really nice - I've been reblogged - nice start to the day


http://tmblr.co/Z11xqxQ50J8K

Pages on Facebook

couple pages on facebook which might be of interest


poetry & photography
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poetry-Photography/142291459207132


and
-creative network-

http://www.facebook.com/pages/creative-network/300603196726045

New Deal

New Deal

/ New Year / 21st Dec 2012

The muse has said I don't have to write things down.

If I can think through the piece, in words, from beginning to end,

then pen, paper, typing, need not be involved.

So this morning – 15th Jan – in bed, I wrote a poem

dreamy romantic

It flowed from descriptive into surreal

and then words 

with good sounds

assembled into grammatically correct but nonsense phrases

and back again

I knew I would destroy it if I got up to write

but the words were there

precisely

I think it was a beautiful poem

I hope you enjoyed it

x

a different poem every day

a poem a day ~

a different poem every day ~

every day of the year ~

http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/potogo/po.html

Tumblr

updated my tumblr today

hope you like the photos

http://www.ashley-bovan.tumblr.com

wiki poetry

wiki poetry article now up on my website
- http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/plus/poart/poetrywiki.html

Magic Times

When we met

it was magic times

We'd always get

  1:01

11:11

  1:23

12:34

23:45

We even had

  0:07

Now it's

  0:00

poetry page - google plus

Fingers crossed, folks - I'm trying to get my new poetry page on 

G+ off the starting blocks - hope you like it - 

https://plus.google.com/117151464233460622182

notebook

My pocket notebook
is 6 months old
looks 6 years old
I been out in the rain
and anyway using 
a bigger exercise book
coz I'd take a drink
and a snack in a bag
make a session out of it
and also carry a couple collections
to browse

So, it's a sunny day and warm
for the moment
I got a fruit bar
in my pocket
but the crowds are out
– not surprised

It's BST today
and the energy is rising
– a bare twig
stuck in the ground
looking to grow
& move about

take what you need

take what you need
you think will last

to avoid recrimination
and destruction
let's gather together
all the good
ringfence it
shape it into an egg
maybe one day it'll hatch
or remain
a memento
object d'art

pdf files poetry

pdf files seem to be going through a revival in popularity so I've grouped together here links to the ones I've got on my website

From 2008, a short collection called People-focussed Algorithms – it's pretty negative, not life-affirming or nice – and also I was experimenting with form & actually, I still quite like it

http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/algorithms.pdf

Ashley's Backward Phonemes – snazzy title, eh? – and what might it be? Well, I converted every word in the Shorter Oxford Dictionary into phonemes [sound units] and then sorted them so that each word that ended with the same sound was listed together – ie it's a kind of rhyming dictionary [from 2009]

http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/Ashley'sBackwardPhonemes.pdf

3 – hah! well, I live in hope – this pdf is 3 poems, titled 3 poems, which are my most favourite that I've ever written, but, fret not, I seriously believe I'm the only person in the whole universe that likes them. It's one of the reasons why I started going to writing classes [to find out why only me liked my writing] and I sort of went full circle – anyway, here's the link

http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/3-AshleyBovan.pdf

on the other hand, also from Feb 2013, is express-70 Short Poems which, I'm happy to say, is proving quite popular

http://www.ashley-bovan.co.uk/express.pdf