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September 2025
As we embark upon "meteorological autumn" and the nights
start lengthening I find that it's time for yet another huge edition of the
mighty Winamop!
Our contributors have certainly been productive this last
month and you will see that this edition is bursting at the seams with splendid
stuff.
Let's get down to it..
Fiona
Sinclair is a UK poet branching out into story-telling. This is her
first time on Winamop and she introduces herself with this story of a woman
breaking free at last. It's called Exorcising Mother.
Michael
Smith is advising us not to ask The Stupidest Question in the
World. What that might be you'll have to discover in the story..
Simon
King transports us back to the early 20th century, to meet Gavrilo
Princip. If the name doesn't ring a bell then maybe Archduke Franz Ferdinand
will? Princip is the bloke who shot him; and we all know what
happened after that!
KJ Hannah
Greenberg. It's great to have another story from one of our most
prolific contributors. This time we seem to be in Argentina meeting Alfonsina
whose life is just petering out. It's called A Kind of
Shepherding.
John Swofford is a talented artist,
poet and author. Here we see a couple of his pictures.
Terry Brinkman has a great new
piece of art called Cottonwood Canyon. It's on his art page along
with all his other pictures too.
KJ Hannah Greenberg has been out
and about and brings us some photographs of notable scenes.
John
Grey is a fine Australian poet and I'm happy to welcome him back
with these poems: Decibels - The Catch In A First Catch - Eating Alone
and Household Day.
Terry
Trowbridge is a new contributor and his first poem for us is called
Kielbasa and Cabbage and Cat and Dog. It may make you feel
hungry.
Bob
Carlton. I love Bob's style, little punchy poems expressing a
feeling or thought. Here are four more: All Fall Down - A Broken Song of
Brokeness - The Impossible Rhyme: A Superficial Crime and Right
Tool for the Job.
R. Gerry
Fabian is here with some new poems and it's good to have him back.
The poems are: Adoption Papers - Waiting For Cats And Dogs So To
Speak and Miscalculated Misunderstanding.
John
Swofford is new to Winamop and is an artist a writer and a poet. In
addition to the pictures above he has also contributed some poetry: As an
item and Many things. They're good!
Tony
Dawson is our octogenarian "enfant terrible" who always has a strong
view on things - mostly U.S. politics - but also some wry observations on life.
Make America’s Gonads Ache - Money Talks ...Weird - How to Grow
Younger - Twin Towns and A Poet Could Not But be Gay.
Richard
LeDue is starting to feel old. You can see from his poems
Hiding From Meaninglessness - Something Clean and A Poem
About Turning 44. 44? I can add 30 years to that!
KJ Hannah
Greenberg's poems this time are called Supererogatory
(actions that go beyond what is required or expected)
Chatoyancy (the cat's eye effect) and Fuliginous
(dusky). We're nothing if not educational!
Terry
Brinkman brings us six poems this time. They are: Feeling
Poorly - Sonnet CCXXXXI - Sonnet CCXXXXV - Sonnet CCXXXIX - Santa Barbara
Morning and Sonnet CCXXIX.
That was quite a lot wasn't it?
If you feel you have something to contribute to the site -
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going. The email button is at the bottom of this page.
I'll be seeing you again in the middle of October I hope!
(Well, I won't actually be seeing you but you know what I mean.)
Ed.
Winamop was conceived on a
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continued unabashed since 2003.
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need more...
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