They talked easynothing and somethingspilled secretsshowed off their minds They walked mostlyeating cheap placesdrank wineheld hands a while They kissed brieflystation rushed goodbyeswaved smilingtill their last time
Author: EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen
Throwback Friday – EDC Writing – Cut ups to manuscript – a poet’s view
December 2019 I submitted a manuscript for a poetry book to Potter’s Grove Press. The submissions panel had liked sent examples of my take on poetry and requested submission of a full manuscript for their consideration - this post relates how the manuscript came about. Now, to start with, I’m not well organised. I have … Continue reading Throwback Friday – EDC Writing – Cut ups to manuscript – a poet’s view
Throwback Friday – Sleep Broke – Eric Daniel Clarke (EDC Writing)
Notes of a new dreamas sleep brokestation platformhe there standingshe walks brisklylookinghalf-head turnshe not seenher name calledpace up nowhe not heardshe hears himday returns
Throwback Friday – Forgotten – Eric Daniel Clarke (EDC Writing)
I don't remember everythingdates and place escape memoments spent with youfade and forsake me too strange faces begin to hauntwith their smiles and tearsI still know I love youask of you one thing when I don't know youall our years forgottenI beg no regrets be freelet me forget to breathe
Throwback Friday – Old Ground – EDC Writing
False dawn before the clock changewithin darkness comes his fallholes dug laid out before himloose words piled high ignoredheavy hands of time push backlet him swallow on his liesher tears wet overraked old ground subsides ..... Eric Daniel Clarke (aka EDC Writing) is an Englishman, raised and schooled in Devon close to its Somerset and … Continue reading Throwback Friday – Old Ground – EDC Writing
Throwback Friday – His & Her Words – Man Enough – Eric (EDC Writing)
My senses are overwhelmed, my emotions raw, my agony real, I so need you. I gasp, the pain cuts deep into my heart of having to accept that there is nothing I can say to bring you close to me, to see, to touch, to hold, to kiss. I thought I could find the words … Continue reading Throwback Friday – His & Her Words – Man Enough – Eric (EDC Writing)
Throwback Friday – His & Her Words – How Do You Feel Today – Eric (EDC Writing)
How do you feel today? Your choice made, down to you, to be without me, happy to be young and carefree, moving on to suit your will? Smiling, knowing you’ll always be wanted, needed, in every way, by someone, your choice always, who you’ll let near. Every flaw, every fault of mine, magnified on here, … Continue reading Throwback Friday – His & Her Words – How Do You Feel Today – Eric (EDC Writing)
Throwback Friday – More Than – Eric (EDC Writing)
We’ve lost the plot spent so long here lost track of where been who wrote what and when ever nudging squeezing seeing who’ll give in who’ll break first who cares most and on and on why do we do this all so scary the risks we take for no good reason we need to speak … Continue reading Throwback Friday – More Than – Eric (EDC Writing)
Throwback Friday – Awakening – Eric (EDC Writing)
The opening narrative scene of 'Their Days - Believing Sight Unseen' first drafted in 2012 has been redrafted many times, and yet, remains much as it was, on its 2020 submission for publication - this is it: MAY Awakening Sunday, early May in southern England Sam sits, eyes shaded, hands clasped behind his head. Sweat … Continue reading Throwback Friday – Awakening – Eric (EDC Writing)
Throwback Friday – Not Forgot – Eric (EDC Writing)
Flash fiction from 2017; from a memory much further back than then: He stands a foot from the wall, illuminated by strobe lit blobs and spheres, one hand in his pocket, the other holding a cold beer. 10 pm he’d guess, summer darkness outside lures moths to flight, rhythm finds his feet, yet too soon … Continue reading Throwback Friday – Not Forgot – Eric (EDC Writing)
