By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.
I have used the prompt for day one, from napowrimo.net - Write a poem based on a book cover. The artwork is courtesy of Public Domain Review (From the book 'On a Lark to the Planets' - Frances Trego Montgomery. 1904) |
By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.
My intention was to use the prompt for day two from napowrimo.net. BUT, within the prompt, I came across the word 'cowbird', something I hadn't heard of before. I decided to abandon the prompt and to write about a cowbird instead! bovine - relating to or affecting cattle bonafide - genuine; real The artwork is straight from the imagination of my talented daughter, Katie, and the photograph is courtesy of bird.org. Cowbirds are birds belonging to the genus Molothrus in the family Icteridae. They are of New World origin, and are obligate brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species. (Wikipedia) |
By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.
Today I am using (loosely!) the prompt for day 3 from napowrimo.net Write an opposite poem - Find a shortish poem that you like, and rewrite each line, replacing each word (or as many words as you can) with words that mean the opposite. I waved my opposite wand over a poem for children that I found on Pinterest. The original poem is featured in the artwork and both are courtesy of Pinterest. If anyone has a solution to the riddle that my opposite poem has turned into, please share it with me and I will include your ideas within the author notes. Thank you :) |
By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.
Today I am using the prompt for day 4 from napowrimo.net Write a triolet - A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) ABaAabAB. My triolet is based on what actually happened yesterday, the only difference being that I was with my husband and not on my own. Needless to say, he thought it most amusing when I fell into the mud! Image courtesy of dreamstime.com |
By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.
Today I am using the prompt for day 5 from napowrimo.net Write a poem in which laughter comes at what might otherwise seem an inappropriate moment �??�?�¢?? or one that the poem invites the reader to think of as inappropriate. Image courtesy of google |
By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.... getting there!
Today I am not using the prompt for day 5 from napowrimo.net, as I didn't like it! Instead, I've used the Amazing Fact Generator from mental floss.com to inspire me. The fact I used as a basis for my poem is this - Beethoven went out of his way to ensure that his morning coffee was made from exactly 60 coffee beans. The accompanying artwork is from the same source. |
By Debra White
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I'm late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.... getting there!
Today, I've used the Amazing Fact Generator from mental floss.com to inspire me. The fact I used as a basis for my poem is this 'The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.' a crapella - 1. (n) a painful or otherwise uncomfortable bowel movement resulting in audible vocalization of lament or relief. 2. (v) to audibly vocalise lament or relief while performing a bowel movement. (Urban Dictionary) Image courtesy of google |
By Debra White
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I'm was late starting NaPoWriMo this year, but I hope to catch up and write 30 poems in April.... almost on track!
Today, I started using a prompt from Poets and Writers to inspire me, but what I ended up with is totally unrelated! Image courtesy of Google |
By Debra White
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I hope to write 30 poems in April for NaPoWriMo, but I'm late starting. I'm slowly catching up...
For this poem, I chose the 'word of the day' from merriam-webster.com - Oracular: can be used to describe a person who resembles an oracle (a person giving wise or authoritative decisions or opinions.) Image courtesy of google. |
By Debra White
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I hope to write 30 poems in April for NaPoWriMo, but I'm late starting. I'm slowly catching up...
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By Debra White
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I'm slowly but surely catching up with NaPoWriMo!
This is my eleventh poem of the month, so I'm only two behind schedule :) Inspired by the artwork which I saw displayed in a shop window this afternoon. |
By Debra White
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My haiku is inspired by the massive ginger cat that swaggers through our back garden at least half a dozen times a day. If our spaniel, Molly, happens to see it through the window, she goes crazy!
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By Debra White
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tempestuous - characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion. reverberations - prolongation of a sound; resonance / a continuing effect; a repercussion. Image courtesy of google |
By Debra White
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It's mostly all true... I slipped in the mud and fell hard onto my backside. The girls didn't actually laugh at me, but I did yell, cry and curse a little. I think I have a bruised coccyx and my wrist is also quite sore.
daft - foolish Image: my actual jeans, muddied by my fall from grace! My intention was to write a Novenary Reel, but I messed up and forgot a very important part of the form (see below between the asterisks) and line 3 sticks out a bit, so this is my Modified Novenary Reel - Please forgive me, Dolly's Poems ;) xx The Novenary Reel - invented by Dollys Poems in 2020. A short poem made up of nine lines. The trick is to keep the shape of the bobbin reel using appropriate words. * The first four lines describe the problem or subject and the last five lines, the solution or conclusion.* Written in iambic meter, 8,4,4,2,2,2,4,4,8. The rhyme scheme is below: x x x x x x x a x x x a x x x a x b x c x d x x x d x x x d x x x x x x x b |
By Debra White
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I am feeling every word of this, tonight!
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By Debra White
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Three of many intrinsic parts of being British - we are sticklers for queueing, we keep a stiff upper lip and we love a nice cup of tea!
Stiff upper lip: staying resolute without giving way to emotion. Image courtesy of google. |
By Debra White
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Nonetheless : in spite of
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By Debra White
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You know one too, right?! They're never wrong and even if they are, it's on purpose!
Smart Alec: an irritating person who behaves as if they know everything Pear-shaped: to go wrong, to fail miserably, to go awry in a terrible fashion Image courtesy of google |
By Debra White
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The dismay you feel when you realise, too late, that the toilet paper has not been replenished.
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By Debra White
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Realisation that even if I manage to post twice each day, I'm going to be one poem short at the end of the month.
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By Debra White
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Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is one of four stages the brain moves through while sleeping. REM sleep typically starts within 90 minutes of falling asleep. During rapid eye movement sleep, a person's brain activity, breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure increase, and the eyes move rapidly while closed.
At the moment, I'm finding that I'm unable to switch off from everything I have going on. My thoughts seem to race most of the night, preventing me from sleeping soundly, even though my husband says that I must have had a 'good night's sleep' because I snored all night! Each morning, I wake up feeling drained, unrefreshed and ill-prepared for the day ahead. Image courtesy of google |
By Debra White
| Author Notes | Photo - Katie and Rebecca |
By Debra White
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How frustrating it was to realise that I am even further behind than I thought! I do not even know how I managed to miss out a chapter when the numbers are auto-generated... grrr!
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By Debra White
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So, as predicted (by me) I didn't manage to complete 30 poems during April... but I will continue with my book until I have 30 poems in it!
Thank you to everyone who has been rooting for me and giving me words of encouragement. I appreciate you... The gorgeous artwork is courtesy of my lovely friend and fellow Fanstorian, Maria (Heather Knight) - Thank you, Maria x |
By Debra White
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Photo taken this morning by me.
It was too high up for me to identify the species, but the bird was singing at the top of its voice. |
By Debra White
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haiku written in 3-8-5 syllable count
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By Debra White
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By Debra White
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I'm trying to get back into the habit of running at least twice a week.
Whilst it took me a while to persuade myself to leave the house this morning, I managed to run 5km non-stop in just over 30 minutes! I was rather red in the face when I got home, but very proud of my effort :) Maybe next time I can do the distance in under 30 minutes! Image courtesy of google |
By Debra White
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By Debra White
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Thank you for sticking by me whilst I got to the finish line!
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