Today’s sestina is based on words suggested by the lovely CAKE people, whom I met at another poetry thing at Bank Street Arts the other week.
Inspired by the spring sunshine last week, it’s set in and around Sheffield’s Endcliffe Park and Eccleshall (Eccy) Woods. Lovely place for a picnic!
I wrote it on my phone, but not in Starbucks.
I ought to make the most of all this sun!
I’ll go out to the park. I need my camera
So I can upload photographs to Facebook
And while I’m there, I want to check my email.
I’ll need to choose some energetic music
To listen to when walking through the wood
My new smartphone does everything! What would
I do without it? Sitting in the sun
I’m tweeting as the blackbirds make their music,
I’m capturing the springtime with my camera,
A buzzer sounds to say I’ve got an email.
My status reads “enjoying spring!” on Facebook
Perhaps I’ll see who else is on their Facebook
Or tweeting like the birds in Eccy wood
We could meet up! I’ll fire out an email
Who wants to come and join me in the sun?
We’ll have a picnic, bring food and a camera!
Get out here and we’ll dance to springtimes music!
Last week I downloaded a load of music
My iTunes bill is huge. I’m on my Facebook
Most of the time, and when i use my camera
I upload all my pictures ofthe wood
The birds, the grass, the flowers in the sun
And send them out to all my friends on email.
I’ve gone over my limit on my email.
as well as buying loads and loads of music
I can’t stay out here in the springtime sun
I need a wifi zone to check my Facebook!
If I could stay out in the park, I would.
At least I got some pictures on my camera
My favorite pub – with an award from CAMRA –
Has no WiFi to let me check my email.
And though I always said I never would,
I go to Starbucks – with their dreadful music
And awful coffee – and I look on Facebook…
My friends are all out soaking up the sun!
I really would go join them with my camera,
Out in the sun, and listen to the music
But not without my email and my Facebook!
Tom Juniper Poetry 