About Robert Harper
a poet & creative writing tutor, taking life one day at a time.
I'm Robert and after spending many years editing and promoting work by others I then fell into difficulties with my mental health. Here I'll be sharing my writing life, poetry, thoughts and feelings around mental health, and finding my way through things with your help. Why not join me and have a virtual coffee together. x
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On the 1st April I had an idea of how I might partake in #NaPoWriMo for the first time. I'm not a prolific writer of #poems, often I will go weeks or months between writing anything at all. Of course these poems always juggle my acceptance of them with the denial of their worth. It's a trying formula for the unending trap of never (or so infrequent so as to be barely noticeable) sending anything o...
I'm sorry I've been absent, but somehow I hope to write 30 poems in 30 days. Here's the fi
Apr 08, 2022
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And the final #NaPoWriMo poem from me as I turn back into a poet hiding in the wings. Thanks for reading these over the last month. It's been fun to write through the puzzle words and come up with these varied and odd little poems. LARVA The boy clung to an overhanging rock like a synod holds on to tradition. Below, a melee of local musicians, bashed cymbals with a provocative clang. The boy, surp...
#NaPoWriMo 30: Larva
May 07, 2022
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TRASH Never throw out your feelings in the morning. Stave off the desire to change when feeling blue. When your thoughts feel like a louse beneath your skin take a breath. Without any qualm, say: I am hope and fear made an alloy. I am the two roads that are unmet. I am a sandy beach on a summer day. I am the frame that holds the model. A trout contracts their fins, drops to the water bed. A beech ...
#NaPoWriMo 29: Trash
May 06, 2022
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