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Pete Turpie grew up in Northumberland, England. He studied History of Art and English Literature at Manchester and Open University. Pete worked in Further Education management for almost 30 years. Writing under the pen-name 'Alan Wickes', his poetry has been published extensively in the UK, North America and Australia, appearing in Aesthetica, Znine, Worm, Loch Raven Review, The Chimera, Envoi, The Raintown Review and Angle. His sonnets have won Ware Poets national competition twice, in 2004 and 2009. Cannon Poets awarded first prize to his poem "Parting Shots" in November 2006. In November 2007 his chapbook Prospero at Breakfast was published by Modern Metrics. His work has featured in anthologies and he is included on 'The Hypertexts' site as a spotlight poet. In 2012 the sonnet sequence 'Nighthawks' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Pete retired in 2012 and has recently completed an M.A. in Humanities with the University of Derby. In the longer term he is looking forward to travelling more extensively, enjoying family life and to have more time to further develop his writing.

Monday, 19 September 2016

Harvest moon meme

We have had some spectacular moon-rises over the past few evenings. Not just in England, apparently, but across the globe. FB. friends have been swapping awesome harvest moon shots. Sometimes social media is truly magical, though most times not.

My contribution, (Derbyshire)

Janets's contribution (Hervey Bay, Queensland)

David Mason (Manitou Springs, Colorado)
It's been great posting moons across the globe, so much so I felt I had to say thank you.

Across the globe we’re posting moons:
some squashed as Boxing Day balloons,
some smudged, some smooth as paper plates.
from Queensland to the United States,
a world-wide web of shy buffoons

post multi-coloured macaroons.
Our kids may dance to different tunes –
but let our moon-memes resonate
across the globe.

The world grows dark; we read the runes
on-screen. Autumn afternoons
we waste dwelling on our dire straits;
as evening falls fear dissipates.
In hope we post our harvest moons
across the globe.

OK. it's a bit of light verse, and it did get a few 'likes'. No comments though, so I guess it bombed. I can't gauge stuff at all. I thought it was a bit perky in a Wendy Copeish sort of way. Ah well, back to the drawing board.
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