Category Archives: NaPoWriMo

My Word, How Really Awful

Posted on April 29, 2017 by colonialist

A word from a poem should give rise to something written for GloPoWriMo Day 29 – the first and most distinctive one I thought of was ‘Jabberwock’ but I can’t labour that again completely. I’ll just bounce between Shakespeare, Carroll, … Continue reading →

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Really Awful Fun

Posted on April 28, 2017 by colonialist

Yesterday we went to join the fish, On top of them, at first, it was our wish; With gondola, canals were well explored – ‘But not the sharky bits!’ the kids implored, For this was not in Venice time was … Continue reading →

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Too Stressed to write more than Two Stresses — Distress!

Posted on April 28, 2017 by colonialist

Dipodic or Skeltonic verse Has two beats moving in a hearse; Day Twenty-Eight GloPoWriMo Invites such skeletons to show! Skeltonic rhyme: Double time; A verbal crime Not worth a dime, With a mime Of eating slime And lime Mixed with … Continue reading →

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Salvaging Live Ammunition, and in Bad Taste

Posted on April 27, 2017 by colonialist

Another Wordle (294) I missed, and I like the picture it created in my mind and the one (with the help of Wiki and Paint) I then created here.  I managed to add fewest possible words, but had to juggle a bit to … Continue reading →

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A Really Awful Stay

Posted on April 27, 2017 by colonialist

  For Wordle 296 (a tough one to do in order and in rhyme — I’ve added far more than my usual tally of words). Thrum of the rig as stay snaps at the deck; Disaster is courted off Florida … Continue reading →

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An Archaeo-illogical Report

Posted on April 26, 2017 by colonialist

Day 26 of GloPoWriMo invites one to  depict an archaeologist of the future’s analysis of something he discovered in our world. I think what follows is an accurate reflection of the way their minds operate in general. Them All  Our diggings have … Continue reading →

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Currently Deprived, and Exploring Space

Posted on April 26, 2017 by colonialist

GloPoWriMo Lament How sad it is that it should be, For catching up with poetry, To meet, this month, the thirty spot, The chances, now, are not so hot.  For yesterday, entirely, We lost our electricity; And when with pen … Continue reading →

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Marginally Really Awful

Posted on April 24, 2017 by colonialist

The prompt for Day Twenty-Four of GloPoWriMo is, entertainingly: Marginalia of medieval manuscripts Can run from the bizarre to the obscene, The production of such work by cloistered nondescripts Show minds that go where they have never been! They do … Continue reading →

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Legs Eleven

Posted on April 23, 2017 by colonialist

The GloPoWriMo Day 23 prompt requires an Elevensie, which has a set number of words on each of five lines, with the following objectives: 1 (1 Word)  A thought, an object, a colour, a smell or the like 2 (2 Words) … Continue reading →

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Really Awfully Clean Vegetables

Posted on April 22, 2017 by colonialist

The Day Twenty-Two GloPoWriMo  prompt: ‘In honor of Earth Day, I’d like to challenge you to write a georgic …  Your Georgic could be a simple set of instructions on how to grow or care for something …’ For going green … Continue reading →

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