NaPoWriMo....DAYS 13-15

DAY 13.....A Golden Glow from an Old Painting with a sprinkling of music.

Boticelli

miss simonetta vespucci

a six hundred year old famous beauty

never ceases to delight us
with her translucent serenity
sun streaked hair adorned with jewels

but not more so than
my marmalade boy
who is also a beauty

his soft fur is sunshine
a smile amongst the daisies

his  vibrato purrs serenading

me to sleep soundly at night

DAY 14......Dodoitsu Form 7 7 7 5

roses and piano music

brings a smile to a sad face
it's been so long since you wrote
i miss you a lot

i know you've forgotten me
all in all not surprising
you'll always be my dodo
and still in my thoughts 

DAY 15

Write a poem in 6 lines that expresses enthusiasm, simple language,repetition rhythm, rhyme and ends with a bang

stayin alive stayin alive
ah ah ah ah
stayin alive stayin alive
not going to happen while that bastard thrives

kick him out with his billionaire mates
let him eat golf balls while washing the plates
we're comin for you fatso so take off and fly
to putin's palace becoming his bride

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

NaPoWriMo 2025...... Day 9

DAY 9
 

some days are for dancing

whirlwind style prancing
flying so high reach for the sky
turmoil surrounds us worries galore
not a good time in history again for the poor
so dance the night away just like leo said

better that than fretting  crying lying in bed

one day that billionaire bastard will hopefully be gone

hit by a golf ball splayed out on the lawn
the sun will shine we'll all smile again
meanwhile keep on dancing until his well deserved end

NaPoWriMo 2025...Poem A Day for APRIL (DAYS 1-- 8)

 

An early bird prompt for those who lead the world in time ...PORTRAIT POEM

lonely times
a young traveller starting out

knew no one

visited you almost daily
in the national gallery

on my lunch break

derived some solace

from your lovely gentle face

left and went elsewhere

forgot about you

until years later when

i saw you in that hong kong bar

Portrait of Man With A Quilted Sleeve....Titian. 1510... National Gallery London

DAY 1......Musical Terminology

with age
she is not as 'sharp'
as she used to be
sometimes a little 'flat'

moves mostly to an 'andante' tempo
these days

plays bach daily 'dolce expressivo'

mainly 'lento' 
on occasion she tackles an 'etude' by chopin
the 'A minor' winter wind is her favourite

'con brio accelerando'
then takes a long 'pause '
for the 'rest' of the day

DAY 2......GREEK GODS

from where i'm sitting

you are delusional narcissus
your curse still infects

endangers the world 

a rose is a rose is a rose

of all the flowers methinks

the rose is the best 
gertrude and will know best

DAY 3

SHADORMA

she excelled
in  the subjects of
music art
literature

her mother said jack of all trades
and master of none

she was wrong
she mastered the lot
scholarships

the whole shebang
tossed the lot

became a creative hippy

a wand'ring minstrel

NOT HAPPY CRESSIDA!


DAY 4.....WDYS PROMPT

rock a bye baby
on the tree tops
tranquillity
not a cloud in the sky
bliss

unbeknowns
to the sleeping beauty
resting on a branch

over the horizon

a storm is brewing

soon it will be
rock goodbye baby

NAPOWRIMO PROMPT.... A Painting

with my first pay packet

almost half a century ago

i bought the milk maid print

she has taken pride of place 

in my kitchen and

has been with me ever since

she has been witness to the 
numerous changes in my life
knows me better than anyone else

when the time comes to leave her

it will be a wrench

i shall miss her

DAY 5

mio dio

ma che cazzo

this is an aria amore mio

you sound like 100 tin cans

falling out of a volvo
almost gave me a heart attack

this  is not musique concrete you know 

there's a good reason for that saying 
in the music world

there are musicians

and then there are singers 

DAY 6

Oranges

a fresh juice
a daily ritual

gurgling sliding
down the hatch
ending with
an irreverent belch

instead of taking sips
like a polite young lady

Day 7-  

Renoir.. The Bathers

never could be this cool
skinny dipping starkers
with a group of hot chicks
possess all the slick phrases

hip lingo
to make it appear so
but in reality
just a boring old music teacher
stuck fast in her groove

Renoir....de L'Orangerie

DAY 8 .....CHOKA

The Di Is Cast

"whatever love is"
he announced to the whole world
who cringed with the shock
he did not bother to lie

how must she have felt
with this surprising bomb blast
pretty obvious
that this was not a love match
on his part at least

Thursday Doors 27th March

something special
about french doors

just love them

sliding doors

not as nice

though could be easily persuaded

to tolerate this bedroom view

a guardian angel
as the garden gate

different

Thursday Doors March 6th

 Everyone knows 10 Downing St London

Government House Sydney. Official residence of the Governor of NSW

Kirribilli House Sydney. The official residence of the Australian Prime Minister.

St Basils Cathedral Russia