Monthly Archives: April 2016

Gains and Losses in Poetic Translation

Posted on April 30, 2016 by colonialist

Counting little ditties and Wordles, and a long nonsense-rhyme written but not yet blogged, I have met the total of writing thirty poems for GloPoWriMo during April. For this final day a translation is suggested. I have chosen an Afrikaans … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Challenge, Colonialist, Language, NaPoWriMo, Poems, Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, Die Koperkapel, GloPoWriMo Day 30, Poem translation, The Cape Cobra (translated poem) | 9 Comments

Does a RATion of RAT admiRATion make them bRATts?

Posted on April 29, 2016 by colonialist

The penultimate day of GloPoWriMo calls for a string of remembrances, while the current Weekly Photo Challenge theme is Admiration. I recall when elder brother was a cat I remember when a budgie was a friend, The memory is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cats, Dogs, NaPoWriMo, Personal Journal, Photography, Poems, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Colonialist, NaPoWriMo Day 29, Pet Recollections, Ryme | 9 Comments

A Really Awfully Backward Rite

Posted on April 28, 2016 by colonialist

The GloPoWriMo day 28 for today calls for a story to go backward. Well, I’ve always been a backward sort of person, so this is right up my alley, or left down my yella! (If you get hopelessly lost, start at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Cars, NaPoWriMo, Personal Journal, Poems, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Backward Story in a Poem, bumbling officialdom., Colonialist, NaPoWriMo 28, Really Awful Rhyme, speeding ticket | 5 Comments

Really Awful Rhyme in Seventeen Silly Bubbles

Posted on April 27, 2016 by colonialist

The NaPoWriMo Day 27 (actually, GloPoWriMo for those like me outside the U S of A) prompt challenges one to produce a poem of seventeen syllables per line: To write impossibly extended lines, let us try a limerick: It would … Continue reading →

Posted in Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Really Awful Rhyme, Renovations | Tagged adding a deck, Colonialist, NaPoWriMo Day 27, Really Awful Rhyme, seventeen-syllable lines of poetry | 8 Comments

WHO ARE YOU?

Posted on April 26, 2016 by colonialist

For Day 26 of NaPoWriMo I have gone off at a tangent to the question-and-response prompt in order to pose a simple question and long response related to the core of philosophy, and to the individualism of the drop you … Continue reading →

Posted in Beach, inspiration, NaPoWriMo, Nature, Philosophy, Poems, Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, philosophy, the concept of self, the individual, Who Are You? | 22 Comments

Summer the Time I am Really Awfully serious … Summer Other Time!

Posted on April 25, 2016 by colonialist

I have combined three recent NaPoRiMo prompts here: a sonnet, a mix of trad and mod, and continuing from an existing line (in this case of some obscure bloke who has just had a 400th birthday): Shall I compare thee … Continue reading →

Posted in Humour, Parody, Really Awful Rhyme | Tagged Colonialist, Really Awful Rhyme, Shall I compare thee, Sonnet with borrowed first line | 12 Comments

Varying a Theme into Abstract.

Posted on April 24, 2016 by colonialist

I’ve taken the original (first shown) of my first version of the Abstract (previously posted) and done some more playing with it. Interesting how the other treatments bring that one leaf into more and more re-leaf! © April 2016 Colonialist (WordPress)

Posted in Challenge, Nature, photo challenge, Photography, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Colonialist, Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract; Variations on an Abstract. | 4 Comments

Can there be Prophet in a Really Awful Wordle?

Posted on April 24, 2016 by colonialist

In adhering to my own rule of words in order and rhyming in Wordle 248, I have had to put in more than my normal number of fillers to make some kind of sense! Hills capture my soul; their peaks … Continue reading →

Posted in NaPoWriMo, Philosophy, Really Awful Rhyme, Rhyme, Wordle | Tagged Colonialist, hillclimbing for enlightenment, Wordle 248, Wordle Rhyming and in Order | 4 Comments

Weekly Photo Challenge – Leaf of Absence!

Posted on April 23, 2016 by colonialist

Abstract is required for the Photo Challenge today, I’ve been feeling most abstracted, but that’s normally my way, But for picture subject purposes, I should now clearly warn That also I am feeling more than quite a bit for lawn!

Posted in Humorous rhyme, NaPoWriMo, Photography, Really Awful Rhyme, Weekly Photo Challenge | Tagged Colonialist, Weekly Photo Challenge: Abstract; Really Awful Rhyme | 5 Comments

Why on Earth …

Posted on April 22, 2016 by colonialist

A poem for Earth Day as prompted for NaPoWriMo: A place of infinite delight: Majestic oceans clear and pure, And forests taking as their right Free growth, pollution ills to cure; All creatures ranging freely where The whim should take … Continue reading →