tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56090453465798813522024-03-08T00:57:19.527-08:00Maggie Doyle: PoetMaggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-69559421135012379492014-07-09T09:46:00.004-07:002014-07-09T09:46:49.408-07:00I've found my blog!<br />
<br />Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-3830404507418659782012-11-14T04:48:00.002-08:002012-11-14T04:48:56.872-08:00Getting Ready For ChristmasNow I am like my grandchildren and counting "sleeps" until Christmas, so I suppose I had better accept it and admit that all the signs from August onward have got me to this point. Here is a little something to spur others on too.<br />
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<b>Christmas</b><br />
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I believe in magic because I am not dead<br />
Last year I got three wishes and this is what I said<br />
I don't want to be a turkey, I'll be a fairy on the tree<br />
So I'm watching from my vantage point as you eat my family!<br />
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Cheery little ditty but wait for my one about the Christmas Fairy! Happy shopping :)Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-10245788770287791622012-10-27T03:27:00.001-07:002012-10-27T03:27:11.431-07:00Missing LaureateOctober 27th, 2012<br />
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I am delighted to say that reports of my disappearance have been blown out of all proportion, not that it is the fault of anyone in particular (except maybe a certain photographer who lured, yes lured, me up the Malvern Hills on a very misty morning). However, it has given poets in Worcester a few giggles and inspired a couple of poems. Originally, I was supposed to be the first poet encountered as people hiked, marched, clawed and gasped their way around a set trail last Sunday. Unfortunately, a keen photographer thought the mist would clear higher up !!! and would thus be able to get a few good photos of the event. Alas, wet and cobwebbed grass, sack loads of various animal droppings and silhouttes of trees were all that we encountered. Having hi-jacked a couple of "willing" victims to incorporate in a couple of photos, the photographer gamely headed back for the carpark passing the bench where I should have been sitting in residence. However, all ended well and all participating poets spent a most enjoyable afternoon together. Another "poetic journey" is planned for next year but, hopefully, in sunshine this time!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Trip to the Malvern Hills<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am the
Lady Laureate a sitting on this bench<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I won’t
attempt to climb them hills, I’m quite a comely wench<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But I do
take in those special views, d</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ifferent greens
and trees and things<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And it makes
an interesting change from sandpits and the swings.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I usually take my
grand-daughter to the park on sunny days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And she
rides on her pink bicycle and very seldom strays<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">From the
gravel paths and cycle routes <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and around
the great big pond<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As the wind
blows round her smiling face and tugs at hair so blonde.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don’t know
what she’d make of this, giant rolling hills<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well I
couldn’t take her to the top 'cos my poor back kills<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s years
of high heeled fashion and that really nasty trip when<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I fell up a
step, nearly broke my neck, and heard my disc go “rip”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></o:p><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>tried that acupuncture, I even had warm jars<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The needles
didn’t hurt at all but the heat treatment left scars<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I don’t
complain about the pain but I couldn’t climb those hills<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I’m
composing in the car park , me and some pink pills<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’d planned
a little picnic but I didn’t have a hamper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Or a
rucksack or a duffle back but you see I’m not a camper<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So these
kind of things are not to hand, it’s sandwiches in foil<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And a packet
of those baby wipes in case they drop on soil<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I thought I’d
get an audience as people start their climb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But they
don’t seem to notice me, or haven’t got the time<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To stop and
hang upon my words so eloquent and true<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">About these
wondrous rolling hills and skies of perfect blue<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I’ll sit
here with my sarnies and my glass of Adam’s Ale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Though the
crusts are curling at the ends, the bread is going stale<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll pace
myself for biscuits, I’ve a ginger snap or three<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For when the
wind gets really chill and arthritis hits my knee<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But you go
off and have your stroll, don’t worry about me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ll be just
fine maybe write a line about this car park and a tree<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’m sure
I’ll be creative well it’s such a lovely place<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t dally
now, move on and walk while I stare into Space<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-54653734376730272342012-10-08T07:02:00.000-07:002012-10-08T07:04:47.116-07:00A CHILD IS MISSING<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">and anguished pleas are hurled <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">at whatever god there may be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Family and friends unite in disbelief
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">as do strangers with their underlying
relief <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">that it is not one of theirs. Scared
and shocked<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">they lock their little ones into the
security<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of closed doors, empty streets<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">while parental heartbeats race <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">through heaving chests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A community unites, frightened by the
ease<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">at which a child “playing out” has
suddenly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">become an abduction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Someone in their midst insists they
saw nothing,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">have nothing to add, no story to tell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">as distraught parents are trapped in
the hell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">of ignorance, not knowing how to
cope,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">while sorrow steals their hope.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-30875241532846813522012-07-27T07:02:00.000-07:002012-07-27T07:02:49.406-07:00London 2012 - Olympic Games<strong>July 27th, 2012 </strong><br />
Well, the day is finally here. The Olympic Games 2012 will be officially opened this evening. Seven years of planning finally coming to fruition. I realise there have been upsets, mistakes, incidents and accidents along the way but all that must be put aside as we join in supporting and celebrating the London 2012 Olympic Games. However, I couldn't resist just one final little dig .......<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Opening Ceremony<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The
Olympics, can I say that word?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">are finally
underway,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">although not
officially opened yet<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">teams are
competing, yes, starting to play.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The coaches
and their passengers<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">have set off
to specific venues<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">while the
torch is at its journey’s end,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was on
this morning’s news<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s
travelling on The Gloriana<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Day Seventy
of it’s tour<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and will
rest up at the Tower of London<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">before the
crowds can see some more.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It will head
towards the ceremony<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">later on
tonight<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">when
somebody, as yet unknown,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">sets the
cauldron alight.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Football
kicked the whole thing off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">but one
teeny, weeny snag<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">someone
hadn’t done their homework<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and hoisted
the wrong flag.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, it
must be so confusing<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">different
colours, different stripes<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and let’s be
honest straight away<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">they can’t
always get it right<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now if you
like your water sports<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and diving’s
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more your bag<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">unfortunately,
all’s not gone well<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">there is a
little snag;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">when
designing such a trendy roof<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">they made it
larger than they oughta<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and as the
divers leave the boards<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">you won’t
see them hit the water!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">But the
views from that there cable car<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">will take
your breath away<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Oh dear,
what’s that I hear<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">it’s not
functioning right today.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t worry,
there’s just a few of them<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">stuck
skyward on the rails,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and it’s
really pretty rare these days<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">that all the
power fails<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now I won’t
be a wet blanket<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">there’s
bound to be odd glitches,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and after
all there’s nothing wrong <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">with those
fab green football pitches.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In fact, I
think they’ve healing powers<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘cos an injured
player couldn’t play,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">left Team
GB, joined his usual team<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">and scored a
goal that day!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Well, I’ve
watched the torch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I’ve rung my
bells – Work Eleven Ninety Seven<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">‘tho I
didn’t ring at zero eight twelve<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It was more
like five past eleven.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Image people
ringing welcome bells<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">from the
Isles of Scilly to Australia,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">welcoming
OUR Olympic games and<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">all it’s
paraphernalia.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">This evening
should be fabulous<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">the opening
ceremony lies ahead,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">although it
is on rather late so I might just be in bed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Enjoy.<o:p></o:p></span>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-38231674049443566502012-04-12T06:59:00.000-07:002012-04-12T06:59:30.548-07:00NaPoWriMo Day 12Isn't it great that so many people have joined up to this self discipline? I'd just be lazing around the house, watching daytime tele and wondering whether to have KFC or pizza for dinner - I wish. However, I look forward to opening up the NaPoWriMo site and seeing what the next prompt is, although I have to confess that I am ignoring the one for today, but I have treid to keep the basic theme.<br />
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<u>Day 12 - Prompt: take a poem (in a foreign language and attempt phonic translation, or something similar)</u><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Learning a Language</b><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I’m not good with foreign languages<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I think it’s those guttural sounds<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So, for me, today’s poetry prompt<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Is well and truly out of bounds<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It’s not that I don’t like foreigners<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And I love different foods, and sun<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But when it comes to speaking the lingo<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Well, I just don’t know how it’s done<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">At school we had lessons in German<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But I’ve only ever been to France<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So my counting and short conversation<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Was never really given a chance<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I’ve tried the CDs and earphones<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I quite fancied Afrikanns<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But that’s really guttural and Dutch like<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So I ‘d have to depend on my charms<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I’m British so I just look helpless<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shrug my shoulders a couple of times<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Shout ‘cos I think that’s helpful<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And if that fails, well I’d mime<o:p></o:p></div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-21799398045484991782012-04-11T09:33:00.003-07:002012-04-11T09:49:02.945-07:00NaPoWriMo Days 9, 10 and 11I'm not keeping as up to date as I would like, but I am managing to follow the prompts this year. Anyway, here are my latest offerings:<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><u>Day 9 – prompt : Persona Poem</u><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><br />
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</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I don’t want to complain but it’s always the same,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Me doing all the jobs.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">They just couldn’t care and it’s really not fair<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">They’re useless, uncaring, they’re slobs.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Oh Daddy dear why don’t you hear<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">They’re spiteful and I really miss mum<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That woman is awful and I know that’s is lawful<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But she’s only a nasty step-mum.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">She dotes on her darlings<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">(they’re puffed up like starlings)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">She bought them new clothes for a ball<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">She told me to stay, I’d just get in the way<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Said I couldn’t go at all.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But fairy godmother came, said what a shame<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">That I had to stay home alone<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">She used magic powers and, for a few hours,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I went to the ball on my own.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">All went to plan and I met a young man<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">He’s a prince and a jolly nice fella<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Says I’m the love of his life, wants me for his wife<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Yes me, little Cinderella.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">(Pam Ayres – The Harvest Hymn – first line only!)<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Give thanks for the Harvest</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">All is safely gathered in, the barns are full of grain<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Nature now can take a rest and leave off chucking rain<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Last year it was hosepipe bans, this year too much water<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">My house is falling down ‘cos you’ve washed away the mortar<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Geraniums did tempt me and I grew them by the score<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Uprights and the trailing ones, I had them by the door<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But when you summoned rain clouds to dampen earth’s dry land<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I think you laid it on too much and things got out of hand<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">For now my garden’s flooded, in fact, it’s more a stream<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">With only mud and puddles so I’ll have to change the theme<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I wanted plants with colour, red, spicy, orange hot<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But you had other plans for me, a water feature’s what I’ve got.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I give thee thanks for harvest time and food to feed us all<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And answering last year’s prayers for water when you got the call<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">But now we’ve had a deluge, it’s brought on my sciatica<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Please collect your rain clouds and bung them over Africa.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p><u><br />
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</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p><b>Jack Frost</b> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p><br />
</o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I heard him cracking at the window<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">fingers scratching to get in<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And watched as his etched his message<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">In patterns too intricate to copy<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">As I opened the door he morphed into<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Vapour as gentle as a baby’s breath<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Covering me with the icy chill<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">floating in the ether<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">His smell, caught in my nostrils,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Then froze in my throat<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I tasted dampness<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And decades past<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
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</div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-28686277188083251572012-04-08T23:07:00.004-07:002012-04-08T23:07:00.490-07:00NaPoWriMo one week lateWell,I told many of you via fb that I was, again, doing NoPoWriMo and nudged a few of you in that direction. However, I didn't start on time. I could give you a number of good reasons (or excuses) but the truth is I couldn't remember how to get on my blog site! So what good a blog site to spread the word and publicise events if I haven't used it for twelve months? And, of course, I now have seven poems to write. So here goes:<br />
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Day 1 - prompt is "Triolet"<br />
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<b>A Lovely Day</b><br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">He whistled as he swaggered down the street<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><o:p></o:p></div>Unaware of the driving rain<br />
His thoughts on love and the girl he was to meet<br />
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">He whistled as he swaggered down the street<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">For she had turned his whole world upside down<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">He couldn’t wait to see her once again<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">He whistled as he swaggered down the street<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><o:p></o:p></div>Unaware of the driving rain<br />
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Day 2 - prompt is poem about songs from the year I was born<br />
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<b>April Fool</b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I was born on April first, an April fool<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The only songs I found were about a mule,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">A reindeer, and riders in the sky, <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Why?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Day 3 - prompt "Epithalamium"</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>The Wedding</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The wedding was planned for eleven</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and the church was alive with sweet flowers</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">which draped from the pews, spilled forth from the font</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and appeared to grow from the bowers.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Diaphanous frocks and their owners</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">drifted past on a perfumed breeze</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">as the guest and invited partners</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">sank quietly to their knees.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">From "the Gods" the choir shuffled gently</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">as harmonious chords filled the air,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the organist flicked several switches</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">on an organ so old it was rare.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Then, from the back of the church and the darkness</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the bride cruised the aisle with her Dad,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">as her Mother blew into a tissue</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">so happy, so proud, oh so sad.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">For the daughter she'd loved for a lifetime</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and who'd lived with her all of her life,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">had finally left home that morning,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and soon would be somebody's wife.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Day 4 - prompt "writing the Blues" (animals and sadness usually or is that folk?!)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Dog Gone</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">My dog fell down a mine shaft late on Tuesday night<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Yes, my dog fell down a mine shaft late on Tuesday<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">And if he aint alive tomorrow I’ll die too<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">He’s been down there a whining and a yelping<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Man, he’s been down there a whining and a yelping<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">He won’t be coming back, broke his doggarn back<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So I’m digging this grave out front to fit us both<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">So I’m digging this grave out front to fit us both<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">‘cos he was my best friend and I was his<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Day 5 - prompt "Opening Day" (can't say this is a prompt for me to follow this time so here's one on negativity instead)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b>Half Empty</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I didn't find him repulsive nor his skin </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">too pale and damp, I didn't see him</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">as lacking in all I desired</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">neither did I feel the entrapment</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">that forthcoming motherhood</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">had brought to my door</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I did not view my future with uncertainty</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my present with sadness,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">nor my past with regret</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">wherever today takes me I know I shall</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">not be unhappy, confident in the knowledge</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">that I had not made the wrong choice</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Day 6 - prompt "Animals"</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all" style="page-break-before: always;" /> </span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">THE DOMESTIC <st1:stockticker w:st="on">CAT</st1:stockticker><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’ve given much thought to the reason why<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">A cat’s thumbs are the wrong way around<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It could be for balance when walking a fence<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Insurance against hitting the ground<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But if this was the case, the whole feline race<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Would similarly be designed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So they’re no help at all to protect from a fall<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So another purpose I need to find<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I won’t get depressed<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I’ll take another wild guess<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dispersing this ominous gloom,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I know! … they’re such clean creatures<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">These newly formed features<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Are for holding aloft a vacuum<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Or the abridged version</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Cats are such clean little creatures<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Their deftly formed features<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Are indeed the most purrfect boon<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For the fussiest cat can keep a clean flat<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As his thumbs can hold a vacuum<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Day 7 - prompt is a colour - poetic choice here producing a variety of colours - another cheery poem!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Perpetua; font-weight: bold;">ROTTING FLOWERS<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Don’t leave flowers at the road side<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">You don’t even know my name<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">You are a total stranger<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">And in this accident take no blame<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Don’t leave flowers at the road side<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Where they will die, just like me<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Are they here as a sign of respect<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">For all the world to see?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Because, if they are, I say again<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">You don’t even know my name<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Take your flowers away with you<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Pretend you never came<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">................ and now I'm up to speed</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB">Day 8 - prompt is "outside"</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">T</span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">HE END OF DAY<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Heading west with the setting sun,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">flocks of rose-coloured sheep fill the sky.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">On the ground, shadows lengthen as<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">the last of the honey bees make their way home.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">A calmness settles over the earth;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-US" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Another miracle draws to a close. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-76215268236839328032012-04-08T15:30:00.000-07:002012-04-08T15:30:09.126-07:00NaPoWriMo one week late<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Well, I told many of you via fb that I was, again, doing NoPoWriMo and nudged a few of you in that direction. However, I didn't start on time. I could give you a number of good reasons (or excuses) but the truth is I couldn't remember how to get on my blog site! So what good a blog site to spread the word and publicise events if I haven't used it for twelve months? And, of course, I now have seven poems to write. So here goes:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><u>Day 1 - prompt is "Triolet" </u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">A Lovely Day</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He whistled as he swaggered down the street<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Unaware of the driving rain <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">His thoughts on love and the girl he was to meet<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He whistled as he swaggered down the street<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For she had turned his whole world upside down<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He couldn’t wait to see her once again<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He whistled as he swaggered down the street<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Unaware of the driving rain <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><u>Day 2 - prompt is poem about songs from the year I was born</u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">April Fool</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I was born on April first, an April fool<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The only songs I found were about a mule,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A reindeer, and riders in the sky,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><u>Day 3 - prompt "Epithalamium"</u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The Wedding</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The wedding was planned for eleven<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and the church was alive with sweet flowers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">which draped from the pews, spilled forth from the font<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and appeared to grow from the bowers.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Diaphanous frocks and their owners<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">drifted past on a perfumed breeze<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">as the guest and invited partners<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">sank quietly to their knees.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">From "the Gods" the choir shuffled gently<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">as harmonious chords filled the air,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the organist flicked several switches<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">on an organ so old it was rare.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Then, from the back of the church and the darkness<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the bride cruised the aisle with her Dad,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">as her Mother blew into a tissue<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">so happy, so proud, oh so sad.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For the daughter she'd loved for a lifetime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and who'd lived with her all of her life,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">had finally left home that morning,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">and soon would be somebody's wife.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><u>Day 4 - prompt "writing the Blues" (animals and sadness usually or is that folk?!)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Dog Gone</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">My dog fell down a mine shaft late on Tuesday night<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Yes, my dog fell down a mine shaft late on Tuesday<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And if he aint alive tomorrow I’ll die too<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He’s been down there a whining and a yelping<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Man, he’s been down there a whining and a yelping<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">He won’t be coming back, broke his doggarn back<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So I’m digging this grave out front to fit us both<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So I’m digging this grave out front to fit us both<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">‘cos he was my best friend and I was his<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><u>Day 5 - prompt "Opening Day" (can't say this is a prompt for me to follow this time so here's one on negativity instead)</u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Half Empty</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I didn't find him repulsive nor his skin <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">too pale and damp, I didn't see him<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">as lacking in all I desired<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">neither did I feel the entrapment<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">that forthcoming motherhood<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">had brought to my door<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I did not view my future with uncertainty<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">my present with sadness,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">nor my past with regret<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">wherever today takes me I know I shall<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">not be unhappy, confident in the knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">that I had not made the wrong choice<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><u>Day 6 - prompt "Animals"</u><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">THE DOMESTIC CAT</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I’ve given much thought to the reason why</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A cat’s thumbs are the wrong way around</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It could be for balance when walking a fence</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Insurance against hitting the ground</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">But if this was the case, the whole feline race</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Would similarly be designed</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So they’re no help at all to protect from a fall</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">So another purpose I need to find</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I won’t get depressed</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I’ll take another wild guess</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Dispersing this ominous gloom,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">I know! … they’re such clean creatures</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">These newly formed features</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Are for holding aloft a vacuum</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Or the abridged version</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Cats are such clean little creatures</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Their deftly formed features</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Are indeed the most purrfect boon</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For the fussiest cat can keep a clean flat</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">As his thumbs can hold a vacuum</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><u>Day 7 - prompt is a colour - poetic choice here producing a variety of colours - another cheery poem!</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Perpetua","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">ROTTING FLOWERS</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Don’t leave flowers at the road side</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You don’t even know my name</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You are a total stranger</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">And in this accident take no blame</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Don’t leave flowers at the road side</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Where they will die, just like me</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Are they here as a sign of respect</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">For all the world to see?</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Because, if they are, I say again</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You don’t even know my name</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Take your flowers away with you</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Pretend you never came</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">................<i> and now I'm up to speed</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><u>Day 8 - prompt is "outside"</u></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">THE END OF DAY</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Heading west with the setting sun,</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">flocks of rose-coloured sheep fill the sky.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On the ground, shadows lengthen as</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">the last of the honey bees make their way home.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">A calmness settles over the earth;</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Another miracle draws to a close.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br />
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</div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-56825650434378116422011-05-02T05:37:00.000-07:002011-05-02T05:37:51.675-07:00and so we enter MayTo those of you who have been interested enough to see what I have written during April, I thank you. It has been an exercise in discipline if nothing else and, hopefully, one I can continue. However, I don't think I can manage one a day for May - I think quality must become upper most again now.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-19265286918408150612011-04-30T04:52:00.000-07:002011-04-30T04:52:22.179-07:00I Did It Maggie's Way (30/30)And now the time has come and so I write the final stanza<br />
Poet friends, I'll say it clear and mention here Napowrimo's bonanza.<br />
I've tried, yes tried so hard to follow each and every guideline<br />
but more, much more than this, most of my poems rhyme.<br />
<br />
Rejects, I've had a few but, then again, too few to mention,<br />
I've changed what I had to change travelling in a new direction.<br />
I wrote each structured verse and read aloud to make it sound right <br />
but more, much more than this, I emailed by midnight (well mostly).<br />
<br />
Yes there were times, oh we all knew<br />
we'd taken on more than we could do,<br />
we wrote all night, keeping verses tight,<br />
we'd jot them down, move them around,<br />
I tried them all, hit the writing wall,<br />
but did it Maggie's way.<br />
<br />
So now Day Thirty's here, no more to write, no competition<br />
perhaps I'll write a book, go take a look, my special edition.<br />
So, thanks yes thanks to you for all supportive comments rendered<br />
'cos now, as I wipe my brow, I have surrendered.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-74018647311473430882011-04-29T11:03:00.000-07:002011-04-29T11:05:45.905-07:00Fantasy or Nightmare (29/30)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Fantasies or nightmares,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">you choose.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Close your eyes, just dream,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">what have you to lose?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Feel his warmth beside you,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">breath upon your skin,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">fingers sliding down your spine;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">you’ve lost it, he wins.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Fantasy is over,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">the nightmare reigns supreme,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">banishing all thoughts of him,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">cruelly mocks the dream.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">The smells, the touch, the taste all gone,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">dawn brings another day </span><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">to live through </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">until night returns,</span><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">the fantasy to re-play.</span><span style="language: EN-GB;"></span></div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-38688642830833571422011-04-28T09:08:00.000-07:002011-06-20T05:09:37.913-07:00The Wedding (28/30)There was panic at Westminster Abbey of the kind the Brits do so well,<br />
an orderly kind of upheaval and calmness so no-one could tell <br />
that the maples and hornbeams, though lovely, could hardly fit through the door<br />
and the home of a nesting blackbird bounced twice before hitting the floor.<br />
<br />
The trumpeters practised their fanfare spurred on by the listening crowd,<br />
it was the last, the final rehearsal, they stood upright, stately, proud.<br />
Bystanders outside the Abbey cheered and waved little union jacks, <br />
it was twenty four hours to the wedding but spending the night on their backs <br />
on a cold and hard concrete pavement, meant they limbered up when they could,<br />
so they waved and they stamped and applauded just where they stood.<br />
<br />
Elgar was still in waiting but the crowds were beginning to wain, <br />
yes they loved all the pomp and ceremony but they'd been told it was going to rain. <br />
So they unrolled tents and brollies, creating a most colourful sight, <br />
but as the music rose to a crescendo, they rolled over and said gooodnight.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-67385015816728032242011-04-27T14:37:00.000-07:002011-04-27T14:37:50.528-07:00Classy (27/30)It's lust at first sight, the girl to your right,<br />
the one with the straight brown hair.<br />
The one in the dress, no, not her - she's a mess<br />
be casual, don't stare.<br />
She's classy alright, no holes in her tights<br />
and look at those heels on her shoes.<br />
She needs to be kissed and I just can't resist<br />
a girl with so many tatoos.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-55747337186357039902011-04-26T11:35:00.000-07:002011-04-26T11:35:29.871-07:00Ageing (26/30)Her pale blue eyes no longer<br />
saw the colours of the world,<br />
no longer viewed the bluebell sky<br />
as it merged with the dark blue sea.<br />
But, within her mind's eye,<br />
colours remained vibrant,<br />
just as she had first seen them, as<br />
nature had intended them to be.<br />
She had witnessed the rise of the sun<br />
in a sky shot golden and pink;<br />
had watched that same sun setting<br />
making way for the darkness.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-40460550994601592042011-04-25T15:50:00.000-07:002011-04-25T15:50:29.809-07:00Bank Holidays (25/30)Factory closures<br />
school children at large;<br />
roads full of traffic cones<br />
caravans and cars.<br />
Airports are heaving,<br />
controllers on strike,<br />
Easter in England<br />
Oh, what is it like?<br />
<br />
When the sun comes,<br />
when the rain stops,<br />
when tornados play<br />
I simply remember my favourite month<br />
that wonderful month called .... May!<br />
<br />
(If you can manage it, this should be sung out loud to the tune of "My Favourite Things" - happy singing)Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-5669460800372180242011-04-24T13:07:00.000-07:002011-06-20T05:11:06.271-07:00Trying to Dream of You (24/30)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Horlicks. Cocoa. Diazepam.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Drowsy. Sleepy.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Grab it when you can.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Silent Night mattress,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">NASA Memory Foam,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Snuggle in a duvet,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">“No Place Like Home”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Wishful thinking;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Penny for your thoughts;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Dream Catchers hanging;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">No dreams caught.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Yoga. Meditation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Paul McKenna on CD.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 100%;"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 100%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">Hypnosis for the weary</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 12pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB';">But just dreams of you for me.</span><span style="language: EN-GB;"></span></div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-70443347223422730482011-04-23T12:07:00.000-07:002011-04-23T12:07:09.127-07:00The Council Wheelie Bin (23/30)I'm a garden refuse wheelie bin<br />
quite a pleasant shade of green,<br />
I used to wait at the pavement edge<br />
but now I'm rarely seen.<br />
I'm purpose-built to do the job<br />
I store all garden waste until<br />
the council send their trucks<br />
to empty me, with haste.<br />
But the months have passed<br />
and I haven't moved<br />
just stood here with my load<br />
waiting to hear those trucks again<br />
as they hit the open road.<br />
I'm full to my lid and bursting<br />
with twigs and rotting leaves,<br />
so council men come rescue me<br />
and empty me please, please, please.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-72368043308967107422011-04-23T11:54:00.000-07:002011-04-23T11:54:25.992-07:00Why Today? (22/30)It was in the half light of a new day she left.<br />
The imprint of her body moulded into the sheet<br />
like a handprint on damp sand.<br />
Even in the confused state between sleeping and waking<br />
he knew she had gone.<br />
Tracing the curve of her back on the sheet, inching<br />
forward as if she was still there,<br />
he placed his head on the pillow where hers had lain<br />
and smelled the faint roses of her shampoo<br />
but tasted salty tears.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-82216679358536376262011-04-23T11:46:00.000-07:002011-04-23T11:46:26.818-07:00The Ultimate Dream (21/30)<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">She stared in the mirror, eyeing herself</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">pleased with the face looking back;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">the puffed eyes with pouches</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">and wrinkles both sides, now gone</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">like the old skin so slack.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">She moved from the mirror</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">and picked up her glass,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">adding tonic, refreshing the gin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">Yes, dreams can come true,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.35pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">you can change your life,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Agency FB'; font-size: 11pt; language: EN-GB; line-height: 110%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-cyrillic-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-default-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-greek-font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; mso-latin-font-family: 'Agency FB'; mso-latinext-font-family: 'Arial Narrow';">thanks to a lottery win!</span><span style="language: EN-GB;"></span></div>Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-59652811213570981722011-04-23T10:59:00.000-07:002011-04-23T10:59:40.592-07:00Cowardice (20/30)As I waited in the surgery<br />
for my turn to hit the chair<br />
I closed my eyes and made a wish -<br />
I wished I wasn't there!<br />
The sound of gurgling water<br />
the hissing of the air<br />
I wished and wished with all my might<br />
I wasn't really there.<br />
The drilling stopped, no further sounds,<br />
had the patient died?<br />
"Oops! Wrong day, wrong week," I said<br />
the hygienist saw the lie.<br />
"Please don't stress and worry,<br />
it doesn't hurt a bit,<br />
it's over in a minute,<br />
resume your seat, please sit."<br />
My confidence had left me<br />
I know I'm really weak but<br />
I'm sure that I'll be braver <br />
If I come again next week.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-60721752134059003192011-04-23T10:49:00.000-07:002011-04-23T10:49:28.869-07:00Salvation (19/30)"So" the smiling angel said<br />
"You think I'll let you in?<br />
You can guarantee to me<br />
that you are without sin?"<br />
"Oh yes", I said with ready smile<br />
"I've never hurt a fly and knew<br />
that I would come straight here <br />
as soon as I did die."<br />
"I've never hated anyone<br />
nor done a callous deed<br />
I've not been lazy with God's gifts<br />
and always did succeed.<br />
I've never overfed myslef<br />
and gave to Ethiopiaid,<br />
I've never lusted after men<br />
nor from my husband strayed.<br />
But I can see you're not convinced<br />
you think I'd lie to <em>you,</em><br />
St. Peter listen closely now<br />
to what I propose to do -<br />
so much for monogamy,<br />
so much for being chaste,<br />
I'll show you what a miracle is<br />
then you can open up those gates"!Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-87093259742010587042011-04-23T10:41:00.000-07:002011-04-23T10:41:08.986-07:00A summer Gig (18/30)Eyes are streaming<br />
Nose so sore<br />
Throat is painful<br />
Tonsils raw<br />
Yet the crowd calls out for more<br />
The show must go onMaggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-74896008403282722952011-04-23T10:21:00.000-07:002011-04-23T10:23:13.425-07:00Conundrums (17/30)How long is the sunbeam that splits the chesnut tree?<br />
Who sends the whispered secrets to the wind?<br />
Where does the dark hide when the yellow sun comes out to play?<br />
How far is the answer to the the question?Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5609045346579881352.post-51155221586616292972011-04-23T10:16:00.000-07:002011-04-23T10:22:07.113-07:00Detached Dwelling - (16/30)His accommodation was basic but warm and dry; <br />
an occasional photo detracting the eye from plain walls.<br />
His neighbours were usually quiet and non-intrusive and visitors were few,<br />
allowing him time to study.<br />
Death Row had some advantages.Maggie Doyle: Poethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13703002781838314169noreply@blogger.com0