NaPowriMo...2025...Days 10 - 12

DAY 10

flibbertygibit
our english teacher's favourite word
flighty flirty gels are not welcome here
fortiter et suaviter is our motto

sedete in silencio|
our latin teacher's instruction
at the beginning of every lesson
ad majoram dei gloriam
the heading that graced each page of our books
as we translated caesar's gallic wars and discussed
aquinas' summa theologica

and from this medieval stronghold setting
of gregorian chant and palestrina masses
we were hurled headlong into a world
where we discovered
the beatles and the rolling stones
gathering moss was never a consideration
from then on

Day 11....Song titles

open cupboard doors
clothes strewn all over the place
these foolish things remind me of you

the lid left off the toothpaste
reams of paper overflowing from the book cases
you drive me crazy 0oo   0oo

but when you're smiling
when you're smiling
you make me feel like dancing

what is this thing called love
i've got you under my skin
i'd do anything for you dear anything

you go to my head 
like a sip of sparkling burgundy brew
OH NO !

the hills are alive with the sound of music

 

NOT AGAIN!

i saw this thing coming out of the sky
it had one long horn and one big eye
i commenced shaking and i said ooh -eee
it looks like a purple people eater to me
the doctor did warn me about these hallucinations

arrivederci 
goodbye  my love goodbye
sorry seems to be the hardest word
i'm leaving on a jet plane
don't know when i'll be back again

DAY 12.....Susannah and the Elders

those perverted elders
should really have known
the size and name of the trees
rather than fixating on the size
of the imaginary protagonist's  member

twas a risky business back then
bathing alone in the open air
in a walled garden
they were foiled by their botanical ignorance
it saved Susannah's life

even now tis risky
to take a morning walk
on a lovely spring day
the hills are not always alive with the sound of music
no more song bursts
sotto voce from now on