Baked Good – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 20

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Hey, Hey!

 

“Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that anthropomorphizes a kind of food.” Day Twenty (napowrimo.net)

 

Youngest picked the chatty foodstuff …

 

I smile from the cabinet,

Glass down the side of it,

Catching the grannies’ eye;

Empire biscuit

Who can resist me

Sticky and tasty

I’m such a sweet wee guy.

 

Reincarnated,

Hundredth time plated,

Jauntily cherry-topped;

 

Shortbread, jam, icing

I’m always enticing,

And dopamine heaven for Pops!

 

If you want to read up on these beauties (that I find very moreish), you can do so here: Empire biscuit – Wikipedia!

Take care my lovelies, and I’ll be back tomorrow to round off the third week of NaPoWriMo.

 

 

Monty X

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 Swirly Love – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 19

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Hi!

So, we are somehow on the 19th day of NaPoWriMo!!

 

“Today’s challenge is to write a poem that starts with a command.”  Day Nineteen (napowrimo.net)

drawing of a girl in a long dress

 

Just wear it!

You walk with me, and I think you are a goddess.

I love the twirl of the skirt,

the way that you float more

just crossing the street.

Hold my hand tight and let me marvel in your glow!

Let me study your patterns from my trolley perch,

As you flit back n forth,

Browsing supermarket shelves.

Let me see how sticky fingers add

my own unique designs.

Let me curl into the fabric,

as sleep

flutters at my lids.

Let me gently stroke the bodice in my dreams.

Let me revel in how skin and cotton meet at your shoulder

as you carry me to an early dinner

from the cocoon of my carseat;

and later to the bubbles in the bath,

and teddy on my pillow.

Let my last looks of the day

fall on you, in my favourite dress,

being all that you are.

Let your swirly skirt waft the remnants of your perfume

as you close my bedroom door,

and listen protectively for me through the night.

 

I’m feeling the need to dig out my copy of R. L. Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses again 😉

Take care, and I’ll come ‘see’ you all again tomorrow.

 

 

Monty X

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Why…? – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 18

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Hello!

“Today, I’d like to challenge you to write your own poem that provides five answers to the same question – without ever specifically identifying the question that is being answered.” [From: Day Eighteen (napowrimo.net)]

I am asked a specific question a lot in my role as mum and homemaker and general nostalgic/romantic/sentimental peep, so that is the one I chose.

 

I

It’s part of me,

Part of the before-yous,

It knows that after here

The plot lines started being rewritten

By all the not-me characters.

It’s original, and curling in on itself,

The way I should have done.

It’s a beacon,

It’s an anchor,

It’s worth more than its sum.

 

II

We’ve all sat on an older knee

With patterned cloth we still can see

Inside our cosiest of dreams;

And sang a favoured song, or three.

A childhood sense of peace and glee

Is found in traditions, for me.

 

III

Hello children

Please do tell

The news of yonder

Hill and dell;

Delight me with your warm embraces,

Funny lines and shiny faces

Fill my head with grit and glory,

My ears are yours for thrilling stories!

Never will you be this young

And I am aging faster,

So let me wrap you in my arms

And tend your wounds with plasters.

IV

See here, the faint whiff of memory clings

To the curly letters of my name.

I will never receive new samples

Of this particular swirl

Upon my sunny doormat.

Will never again prompt those postal hugs

By saying something slightly melancholy

Down a phone attached to a wall.

 

V

You’re walking,

Or changing the radio station,

Or just rolling your eyes

At the ‘neediness’

And refusing to turn.

But I’m still up here, waving,

Til your back,

Or the car,

Is well out of sight.

I love you 😊

 

This morning was very special because Youngest came in to see me after his breakfast just before 9am (Hubby had just got up, I had gone to bed very late and was awake but still in that lazy frame of mind) then snuggled in beside me, gave me a big cuddle and promptly fell asleep!  Well, this rarely happens these days with the boys getting older and usually having a fuller agenda, so I got comfy and went back to sleep, too!  It was a lovely way to mark the last day of the Easter holidays 🙂 

I hope you’ve all had a fab Easter weekend, and I’ll be back here tomorrow for Day 19!

 

Monty X

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 Dogged – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 17

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Good Evening!

 

The prompt for Day 17  “…asks you to think about dogs you have known, seen, or heard about, and then use them as a springboard into wherever they take you.” [From: Day Seventeen (napowrimo.net)]

So I did the brainstorming as detailed in the prompt’s link above, picked  a thought that surprised me, then sat down and wrote the below:

 

With a hollow kind of bark

He emerges from the dark:

Gave me quite a start, that doggie did!

 

His tail began to rock

And, reeling from my shock,

I wondered where his furriness was hid!

 

Bone dog,

Bone dog,

Alabaster-tone dog

Why are you scurrying here?

Bone dog,

Bone dog,

Wait, I’ll get my phone, dog

This could be the selfie of the year!

 

Yes, I had a wee tune going in my head as I wrote it and everything – I’m sure some of you involuntarily made one up as you read it, too 😉 love a wee nonsense rhyme!

The thought that surprised me was the dog from this children’s cartoon popping into my head: 

 

Spaghetti junctions galore in my bonce, I tell ya!!

 

And onnnn to Day 18 I goooo…

 

Monty X

 

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Bad Cattitude – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 16

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Hi 🙂

 

It is Day 16 of NaPoWriMo, and the prompt on the site asked me to write a ‘curtal sonnet’.  As usual, I went and found an explanation for myself so I knew what I was getting into:

“Gerard Manley Hopkins invented the curtal sonnet in the 19th century. The poem consists of 10 lines written in iambic pentameter and a final line consisting of a single spondee (or foot consisting of two long or stressed syllables).” [from: Curtal Sonnet: Poetic Forms – Writer’s Digest (writersdigest.com)]

The above then went on to say that the rhyming scheme was abc abc   dbcdc. 

I needed a bit more focus still, so I employed the good ol’  random word generator trick 😉

 

I live to shatter, love to wreak havoc      a

Pedestrian possessions cast all ‘round     b

A pair of boots, a cucumber o’er there…     c

As your hand to my head feels the gravic     a

I hiss, then bite you ‘til you’re on the ground.   b

(When in a shady corner, floof my hair.)   c

It’s plain I am the boss, your fossil creaks!   d

My wrist could murder you with scarce a sound    b

You, frail human, are so feebly prepared,               c

What ‘owner’ constantly skimps on the treats?!      d

Take care…    c

 

 

I feel I did cheat just a little bit there, as I switched the order of a couple of the words I got from the generator (and also made one a plural) but I managed to wedge in ten 10 syllable lines, 9 random words, the correct rhyming scheme and that spondee (whilst sticking to a theme)…so I’d call that a win!!

I shall be back for Day 17 😉

 

Monty X

 

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Not Bowled Over – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 15

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Evenin’ All!

 

So, as usual, I went to the NaPo site for my prompt:

“This one may seem counter-intuitive, but today I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about something you have absolutely no interest in.” [Day Fifteen (napowrimo.net)]

This was quite hard because I spend a lot of my life Googling random things, most recently to write these poems!  I did think of something eventually, however.  (Apologies to my Dad, right off the bat…):-

 

Oh, I tolerate most things that are not cricket:

I have learned a bit about “footie”

And pensions, and art journals,

And computers, and quilling,

And (of course) David Bowie.

 

cricket ball and wickets

I’ve splashed about some watercolours

(Duelled my boys using hake brushes)

Collected needles of many kinds and

Lots of coloured crochet hooks.

I’ll dip into a wide range of magazines and books,

Research conditions and symptoms others have mentioned,

Listen to motivational speakers and brand-new podcasts,

Play many types of games.

 

I’m all for exploring things with my mind,

And learning about injustice, and which country is being nice to whom,

But Cricket is not my cup of tea, I’m afraid.

Howzat for a sticky wicket, eh?

 

I hope you’ve all had a lovely day today, getting to do things that you like knowing about 😊

 

It’s pretty late so I’m going to scoot, but I’m proud of myself for getting to the halfway point in another NaPo!  See you tomorrow!

Monty X

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Baby Bio? – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 14

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Hello!

 

“Today’s challenge is a fun one: write a poem that takes the form of the opening scene of the movie of your life.[from: Day Fourteen (napowrimo.net)]

 

A toddler girl spins round in place,

With sweet blonde curls, ecstatic face;

A chubby hand up in the airauthor as a toddler, crouching and smiling

(The cam’ra zones in ‘til we’re there)

With her we’re happy, wild, and free

Cocooned from harsh reality…

 

How could that cutie have been me?

 

How could she have been me?

 

What would the start of your biopic look like?!

Yes, the above picture is me as a toddler on a street in Edinburgh 😉 my mum was crouching to capture me, so I thought it was hilarious to copy her…

Take care and I’ll ‘see’ you tomorrow!

 

 

Monty X

 

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Oh Happy Day – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 13

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Hello there!

 

Day Thirteen (napowrimo.net) asked me to write a poem about being optimistic, to counter the date.

My true day has been a little mixed, but I was sitting in my bedroom looking out on the antics of various birds in the evening sunshine, so I decided to give it a go…

 

Five by five

It’s good to be alive!

There’s tea in our cupsA dog in a wig, smiling

And we’re not giving up;

It’s a blue sky day,

And everything’s okay,

So smile,

                smile,

                           smile.

I hope your day has been a good one? I can hear the above being a radio jingle or something…

See you soon for Day 14’s NaPoWriMo offering 😉

 

Monty X

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Of Stormy Teas- #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 12

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Hi! 😊

 

Yesterday, I challenged you to write a poem about a very large thing. Today, I’d like you to invert your inspiration, and write a poem about a very small thing. [Day Twelve (napowrimo.net)]

What I came up with was also smaller in length than some of my other poems!

 

I try to quell the eddies

When they start:

Smile a little brighter,vintage teacup and saucer

Ask another question

Of the extroverted ones.

 

Stuff a cake in my mouth

While others take their foot out of theirs.

 

Good China can rattle too loudly,

 

It draws attention.

 

Annnnd, onwards to Day 13!! 

Take care 🙂

 

Monty X

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Non Largesse – #NaPoWriMo22 – Day 11

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Greetings!

 

So, this was my prompt:

 

“Following up on yesterday’s love poem, I have for you another deceptively simple challenge. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about a very large thing. It could be a mountain or a blue whale or a skyscraper or a planet or…” [Day Eleven (napowrimo.net)]

and I had a wee think to myself…

 

white carnival mask on black background

Hi, Society!

 

Always searching for credit

From those who would edit,

And flound’ring for praises

From people in stasis.

 

Et-Er-Ni-Ties feeling worse

In a curse-driven hearse

That careens to the deep…

 

All their bitter words seep

Through the membrane of ‘she’

To the soul.

Best to flee,

Casting good deeds aside.

Well now!

Hide their goodbyes

In the brain: ‘til the stain of their dissonant pain

Twists up things ‘she’ would do;

‘Til the blatant untruths

And shame-filled once-games

Become torments again.

 

Rinse and repeat.

 

Never vote with your feet!

Plant now your seat

At the next meet and greet!

 

 

human garbage on a beach

 

Don’t Panic

 

Blue planet

Don’t panic

We won’t stick around.

You can annihilate us

Till we fertilise your ground.

 

Blue planet

Don’t panic

Yes, we all have plans;

But you still hold the aces,

(Diamonds!)

Club us where we stand!

 

 

Hopefully you can tell from the above that the two ‘large’ things I decided to write about were social anxiety and climate change! 

Take care of yourselves, and I’ll be back tomorrow for Day 12 🙂

 

Monty X

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