Next Stop Poetry – The First Trial!

I’ve always done a lot of my writing on the bus during my daily commute. Lately I’ve been working on a project called Next Stop Poetry (nextstoppoetry.wordpress.com). The premise of the project is to write short poems on the bus, print the poems on small cards which suspiciously resemble the local monthly bus-pass, and leave those cards on the bus for other commuters to find. I want people to see poetry differently, and also to see the bus differently. I explain it better in my manifesto on the Next Stop Poetry site. I created a new site for this project

Breakfast

 

 

A man, suit-jacket off,
leans out into a ravine of scrub -
misses the bus,
reaching for blackberries.