Falstaffian overeats obsessive doldrums
© T. Altman 2017
#day14 #food #thedirtythirty
Emerging Writers Festival
The Emerging Writers Festival is happening in Melbourne, Australia next month.
The Emerging Writers’ Festival is a not-for-profit organisation whose foundations are built on supporting emerging writers. They are a place where creativity and innovation is celebrated, where new talent is nurtured and where diverse voices from across Australia are represented.
For all sessions and workshops check out their website here:
Day 13, The Dirty Thirty: Headstone
Here she lies
Never more disguised
No longer an outsider
Now a star collider
© T. Altman 2017
#day13 #thedirtythirty #headstone
Day 12, The Dirty Thirty: Freewrite
Dysthymic melancholia
Feels like falling
Through a glass darkly
Whilst completely still
Tastes like whiskey and regret
Like vodka and Lexapro
Gin and razor blades
This poets curse
© T. Altman 2017
#day12 #freewrite #thedirtythirty
Day 11, The Dirty Thirty: Tree/Connection
Holding out the branch to me
Planted her for me to see
Connection to roots of old
Bound by blood ties he told
Of knowledge, peace and victory
This beautiful bounteous tree
Dedicated to Athena the Wise
Crowned over virgin guise
Hard core and bitter flesh
Just like memories I thresh
An eternal evergreen first track
Turns time and is bruised black
Golden source of the Old World
It sings to me of tragedies unfurled
Yet supplicants my feelings at odds
As it’s a gift of nature from the Gods
© T. Altman 2017
#day11 #tree #thedirtythirty
Day 10, The Dirty Thirty: Hot New Trend/Limerick
Superfoods are all the rage
Despite race, sex or age
Urine drinking on trend
To heal or send round the bend
Everyone’s a bloody sage
© T. Altman 2017
#day10 #hotnewtrend #thedirtythirty
Day 9, The Dirty Thirty: Alternative Currency
Some say its better than love
Some say its better than money
Some say its worth much more
Than being lonely
It sells more than anything
It makes more than anything
Its valued much more
Than everything perishing
Is it kindness?
Is it trust?
Is it loyalty?
No…its simply lust.
© T. Altman 2017
#day9 #alternativecurrency #thedirtythirty
