Day 20, NaPoWriMo

 

Three random leafy spots;

  three tiny poems

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London leaves grey and hiding

Served the best

Earned their rest

  

 

[link]

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Southern USA leaves still green

Working so hard

Green year around

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My backyard Roses puny and yellow

They're underfed

But watered to much

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 - and with NaPoWriMo, Day 20, at http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-6/

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Poem - Hawaii

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HAWAII

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Hawaii is

Always watery

Wet and

Always warm

It's my

Island paradise

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Acrostics Only :Prompt 5: Around the World (ATW).

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - Pro

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PRO

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Professional golf

Rated Number One Sport

Our house TV rule

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Prompt B: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - PRO - (A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)
(Similarly constructed poems involving human nature, are generally excluded from haiku, and reserved specifically for Senryū.) [This poem is aSenryū. ]

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - EAU

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EAU

Eau "de toilette"
Always smells so very sweet
Unless allergy

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Prompt B: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - EAU -
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)
(Similarly constructed poems involving human nature, are generally excluded from haiku, and reserved specifically for Senryū.) [This poem is more of aSenryū. ]

Notes:
1. Eau is a French word for water and is often used to describe lighter concentrations of perfume. (noun) [YourDictionary]

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - SAP

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S A P

Soon spring sap will run
As the greening tree juices
Possible pail full

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Acrostics Only: Prompt B: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - SAP - (A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)
(Similarly constructed poems involving human nature, are generally excluded from haiku, and reserved specifically for Senryū.)

Notes:
1. Photos are of the same tree in our neighbor's back yard. The upper picture was taken this winter, the lower today, the second day of spring, 2012. I think it is a red maple tree. I could be wrong.

2. "Maple syrup is a syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before the winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in the spring. Maple trees can be tapped by boring holes into their trunks and collecting the exuded sap. The sap is processed by heating to evaporate much of the water, leaving the concentrated syrup." (Wikipedia, Maple syrup, Link)

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - FLY

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F L Y
Feeling bit lowly
Life has gone south and sour
You bit me, now fly

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Acrostics Only: Prompt B: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - FLY
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)(Similarly constructed poems involving human nature, are generally excluded from haiku, and reserved specifically for Senryū.)
Note: Grasshoppers never eat other insects. They are called herbivores because they eat only plants (link). But a hungry fly will take a bite of most anything living or having once lived. I.e. now dead or alive. For more about grasshoppers read here.

Acrostics Only: RENEWAL

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RENEWAL

Rewound
Energy
Never
Expected
Watchmaker
Airborne
Liftoff

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Photo: Watchmaker
Courtesy Wikipedia

Acrostics Only: Prompt 1: Single Word lines requirement (SW) – RENEWAL

Note:
1. Pictured is a railroad watch finisher making an adjustment on a railroad movement. (Source=Watch Word magazine Date=September 1949 Author=Elgin National Watch Company and modifications by Wayne Schlitt ) copyright now expired.
2. Back in tile 1950's when I was a college dropout from the University of Nebraska I got a job at the Elgin watch factory in Lincoln, Nebraska. I joined the National Watchmakers Union and worked there for three years before being drafted into the U.S. Army.

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - DUE

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D U E

Dollars spent here there
Unless income exceeds spent
Each must pay piper

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Photo: Piper J3C-65 Cub
Courtesy Wikipedia

Acrostics Only: Prompt B: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - DUE
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 un-rhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)
(Similarly constructed poems involving human nature, are generally excluded from haiku, and reserved specifically for Senryū.)

Note: "pay the piper" ( meaning -- )
"to accept the unpleasant results of something you have done"
i.e. "pay the price"
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/pay+the+piper

Acrostics Only: Acrostic Haiku - URN

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U R N
(trashed for urban renewal;
put up a parking lot)

Urban developed
Renewal is the order
Nature takes a hit

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Acrostics Only: Prompt B, Acrostic Haiku (AH) - URN
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)

Acrostic: Fright

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F R I G H T
(Halloween)

Frightful night is here
Rattling bones scare the boys
Igor shrieks girls scream
Ghosts and ghouls galore
Hades' witches in black
Travelling on their brooms

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Acrostics Only: Prompt 5, Emotions (E) – FRIGHT
Instructions:
You can choose to do 1, 2, 3, or 4 Words per line in each prompt, except for the INNOVATIVE PROMPTS. The prompt must have either 1 word each line throughout the entire poem, 2 words each line throughout the entire poem, 3 words each line throughout the entire poem, or 4 words each line throughout the entire poem. But you cannot mix it.

Acrostic: Piggy Bank

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P I G G Y . B A N K

Piggy sam went to town
for Ice cream cones
one for Gracie pig
another for dear Grandma
chocolate strawberry vanilla Yummy

who's paying here Boy
not me Answered sam
me Neither said gracie
Knowing grandma's piggy bank
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Acrostics Only: Prompt 4, Children's Corner (CC) – PIGGY BANK
Instructions:
You can choose to do 1, 2, 3, or 4 Words per line in each prompt, except for the INNOVATIVE PROMPTS. The prompt must have either 1 word each line throughout the entire poem, 2 words each line throughout the entire poem, 3 words each line throughout the entire poem, or 4 words each line throughout the entire poem. But you cannot mix it.

Acrostic: Court (a limerick)

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C O U R T

Court of law is now in session
O hear ye hear ye attention
Under penalty of law
Read oath to witnesses now
This court is now at recess(ion)

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Acrostics Only Prompt A: Acrostic Limerick (AL) — Court
(Limerick Form - a limerick is defined as “a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7 to 10 syllables and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5 to 7 syllables and the last words rhyme.)

Acrostics Only: Kiss and Tell

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KISS AND TELL


Kiss me you fool

I'm ripe to drool

Schooled by my lover

Surely I love her


All that I know

Now cougar in tow

Down to the store


Ten quarts of ale

Eight cases of Bud

Lies lies always there

Love buys boys beer

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Note: Before I was of age my likewise situated roommate figured out how to get our beer by the month. He 'dated' the older lady across the hall. Subsequently they would go to the market where she would buy beer and other booze for us to last until 'next time.'

Prompt 3: Phrase or Slang (PS) - KISS AND TELL
Choice of 1, 2, 3, or 4 Words per line -- I chose four
Written for Acrostics Only

Acrostic: Asp

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A S P

As quick as a flash
Snake like venomous and fast
Pony Ford--Cobra



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Note: A Pony Ford is a Ford Mustang.
The Cobra model is a specially built hopped up Mustang.

Written for Acrostics Only, Prompt C: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - ASP
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)

Acrostic: Peppy (a limerick)

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PEPPY

Peter Pepper picked a lively girl Patsy Paul
Easy asking her sock hop kid to sailor's ball
Patsy said yes I'll go
Peter wept not his hope
You see he dampened all had just made a crank call


Acrostics Only Prompt A: Acrostic Limerick (AL) — Peppy
(Limerick Form - a limerick is defined as “a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7 to 10 syllables and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5 to 7 syllables and the last words rhyme.)

anapestic lines:
da da DUM / da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM / da da DUM

Acrostic: Sow

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SOW

Senior hog of mine
Old mother pig she's my pet
Will embrace for wine


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Written for Acrostics Only, Prompt C: Acrostic Haiku (AH) - SOW
(A Haiku is a Japanese lyric verse form having 3 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables, traditionally invoking an aspect of nature or the seasons.)

Acrostic: Match (a limerick)

M a t c h;
the match boy

Match for you get a match cent a match
Aye mister got a buck for a match
Think he does looks so rich
Class so poor life's a bitch
Have some gin thank you sir down the hatch


Acrostics Only Prompt 8: Acrostic Limerick — Match
(Limerick Form - a limerick is defined as “a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7 to 10 syllables and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5 to 7 syllables and the last words rhyme.)

anapestic lines:
da da DUM / da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM
da da DUM / da da DUM / da da DUM

Acrostic: Thinking

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(Just) Thinking

Think of a time
How would it be
In our fast day
No sad so pure

Know it could be
In all we do
Need gift of Christ
God's love for us


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Acrostics Only Prompt 2:
Enjoyable Action, THINKING
Requirement: 4 Words per Line

Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi architect, at Barcelona, Spain

*John 3:16 (NIV):
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Acrostics Only: Slang (a limerick)

S L A N G

Shucks, dog gone to heck, o' phooey

Love my four letter words, Louie

A little verse for sis

Never taught me to kiss

God loves my slang—cuss all hooey




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Please note:
Lois (Louie) is my only sister. I don't know who this vendor lady is. I took this picture in Tallinn, Estonia, while on a holiday Baltic cruise this spring.

Acrostics Only Prompt 8: Acrostic Limerick — SLANG
(Limerick Form - a limerick is defined as “a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7 to 10 syllables and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5 to 7 syllables and the last words rhyme.)

Acrostic: Empty

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E M P T Y

Every night they go into town

Maidens in their red and white gowns

Plenty of go gauges show

'Til on corner they know

You now know -- their springs have run down


......................... (Wind them up)

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Please note:
Adi my beagle dog has gone to the end of the driveway,
out to bring in the evening paper.

Acrostics Only Prompt 8: Acrostic Limerick - EMPTY
(Limerick Form - a limerick is defined as “a light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of 5 anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba”. Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7 to 10 syllables and the last words rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5 to 7 syllables and the last words rhyme.)