NAPOWRIMO...APRIL 2026 .....Day 16, 17 ,18, 19, 20

 Day 16

singapore orchids
good value
bought three weeks ago
greet me every morning
in the kitchen
bring a smile

flowers 
they keep me going
beauty amongst
the bad news on tv

they are carefully tended
daily
repay me with their beauty
hard to find a smile these days
in these torrid times

many thanks to the supreme designer
for providing so much beauty
sadly
that most don't  even notice


DAY 17

plop
a water lily
dive bombed by
basho's frog

splashes and ripples
a rude awakening
the reeds giggle
the moon winks

DAY 18

including tigers and opera
tiger visits often
he loves tasty snacks
does not like opera
yowls if it's on tv
he's a very spoilt 
little p...y cat you see
have not seen him for a while
something must have happened
found better snacks 
somewhere else
or maybe something worse
guess we'll never know
miss that little p...y
the paranoid censor
will be having a w..sy
maybe he has joined his friend
the owl
gone to sea in a pea green boat
escaped
to the land where the bong tree goes
(the cat not the censor)

        DAY 19

he loves
taking photos 
of flowers in my vase
he used to buy them for me every
friday
sadly
he can no longer buy them any more
we still have the photos
we still have each
other

DAY 20

oh it's all very well
shaving off your eyebrows
to signify your grief 
at the demise of one of us

we are  god like creatures
it seems disrespectful
to expect  us to live
on a diet of snakes and mice

the pharoah doesn't
why should we
and while you're at it
egyptian cats don't like excessive noise
please tell those slaves to
stop moaning and groaning
while building those frightful pyramids