10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell

This is my daily writing ritual. It started on the 5th of November 2015. It is a 30-plus year experiment to see if writing a poem a day, my ongoing commitment, can contribute to maintaining mental skills and avoiding those growing ravages of ageing upon the brain.

These poems form a narrative of my life, politically and emotionally, fact and fiction, with which I hope to find engagement with other individuals who are also just trying to get by, with, or without any concerns.

My inspiration comes from daily events, connections, films, books, and real interactions – ten thousand small things – which all seem to demand bigger attention from me.

I have been published in the UK & USA, although submissions often are not chased, and appearing on this site my poems are regarded as ‘published’ by editors, so make themselves excluded from the usual poetry game. But then I don’t play to those rules.

Other Work
My pre-lockdown day job found me designing weird stuff for weird people – experiential, exhibition, event and other designs in 3D.

This can be found at www.freelancevisuals.co.uk

During lockdown, I lost all that work, so I created maps of data, which continue to flourish – primarily about bands, but also plots, sports, politics and lies.

This can be found at www.mikebellmaps.com

10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell’s tracks

• #2,635 I am aulder than my father by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
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• Flood Warnings by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• I Will Not Learn by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• That Wooden Bench by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• Exile Nothing by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• That second-hand wedding dress by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• Here Will Be Houses by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• Of Being Fathers by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell
• I Miss That Cruelty by 10,000 POEMS by Mike Bell