Napowrimo 2020

Day One 






aumty nin's yellow canary
sang all day long
whilst she bustled about
chatting to him in
her little garden kitchen
the door to the cage was always open
unusual he did not take off
perhaps someone mentioned coal mines
that or he was happy where he was

Day 2 

rhyming couplets

 
a virus wants to kill us all
the worst pandemic since the fall
we plead with God to save our skins
perhaps it is the wage of sin
when this is over we must change
return to simplicity and engage
with elevated minds and spiritual thought
not things and trinkets that we've bought
meanwhile we should sit at home
using the  time to write good poems
tidy the sock drawer make some calls
the neighbours freak and climb the walls
if they hear happy birthday one more time
you'll find them swinging from the blinds






 Day 3

senryu




p c execution
death by  trombone firing squad
what a way to go

Day 4




as a child
this was her swimming hole
she knew every rock  nook and cranny
somewhere down there  was a silver ring
lost decades ago -  long gone
he said it belonged to his grandmother

in her dream swimming underwater
she sees a gleam - the ring
wedged under the corner of a  rock
part hidden by the waving seaweed

every time she returns to that beach
she dives in 

gone
gone
gone
long ago
yet
she still looks in that same spot
you never know


Day 5




1938-2020 

Shadorma

you have gone
many will miss you
in this world

magic songs
cool special and romantic
rest in peace sweet bill