Monthly Archives: April 2015

Turtle Disaster Really Awfully Reversed

Posted on April 30, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) The final day – NaPoWriMo Day Thirty. Here we have a prompt to ‘… take a poem you’ve already written, and flip the order of … Continue reading →

A Really Awfully Good Review

Posted on April 29, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) For the penultimate NaPoWriMo poem – Day Twenty Nine – I feel entitled to rest on my laurels a bit. After all, I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Colonialist, verse, writing, music composition, fantasy, Africa, journal., Fantasy, Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, novel idea for a poem, Parody, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, Humour in Rhyme, NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Nine, Novel Review by Shakespeare, Really Awful Rhyme | 15 Comments

Really Awful Bridge Passages

Posted on April 28, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) ‘I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about bridges’ is the prompt for NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Eight. ‘Write about bridges,’ we were … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Really Awful Rhyme, Wordplay | Tagged Bridge Humour, Colonialist, London Bridge fallen and in Seine bridge passages, NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Eight, Really Awful Rhyme | 14 Comments

Really Awful Hay-Diddle-Diddle-(Na)-Kus.

Posted on April 27, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) And so we come to NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Seven, where the prompt challenges creation of six-word haiku forms known as hay(na)ku with lines of … Continue reading →

Posted in Beach, Challenge, Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Ocean, Personal Journal, Wordplay | Tagged Colonialist, Hay(ku)nas, NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Seven, Really Awful Rhyme | 18 Comments

A Really Awfully Friendly Cockroach

Posted on April 26, 2015 by colonialist

NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Six prompts: ‘write a persona poem – a poem in the voice of someone else’ so here goes: Hi there! I’m Cocky – I’m a roach… Why do you shrink at my approach? Why is it you … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge | Tagged challenge, cockroach, Colonialist, humour, NaPoWriMo Day 26, Really Awful Rhyme | 38 Comments

Dare to do a Really Awful Clerihew

Posted on April 25, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) For NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Five there is an invitation to try the Clerihew. ‘These are rhymed, humorous quatrains involving a specific person’s name. You … Continue reading →

Posted in Beach, Challenge, Fantasy, Grandchildren, Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Personal Journal, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Cameron, Colonialist, Dickens, Einstein, LHW Noble, NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Five, Obama, Really Awful Rhume | 20 Comments

Ode hear, this is Really Awfully Shakespearean

Posted on April 24, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) It is suggested that for NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Four one should ‘write a parody or satire based on a famous poem. It can be … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Parody, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme, Religious absurdity, Wordplay | Tagged apple, Colonialist, parody of sonnet, Really Awful Rhyme, Sonnet in Shakespearean Style Really Awful | 11 Comments

Add New Post on Old Screen – No More Beep Beep Boop

Posted on April 24, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) Does Beep Beep Boop drive you dilly? Did you always go back to the older version until the option to do so on the page below … Continue reading →

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A Really Awful Drawcard for Getting Rid of Seven Unwanted Politicians.

Posted on April 23, 2015 by colonialist

(Click on appropriate section of sidebar on right for translations, writings, compositions, awards and special series.) The challenge for NaPoWriMo Day Twenty Three was to draw a card at random, free-write for five minutes, and then compose a poem (a … Continue reading →

Posted in Challenge, Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Really Awful Rhyme, Satire | Tagged Colonialist, Drawcard for expelling politicians, humour, Really Awful Rhyme | 14 Comments

Ritual Slaughter and Sacrifices – Constitutional and Legislative Amendment Needed.

Posted on April 23, 2015 by colonialist

(Disturbing images are included.) In April and May each year, now, there comes a sudden upsurge of interest in these posts: Slaughter in the Suburbs and Ritual Slaughter as a Spectacle These slate the malpractices of ritual killing and sacrifice, … Continue reading →