Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.
In open safari vehicle
my driver Robert
drives right up on the lions
who have killed and eaten
a water buffalo
of last night’s kill
I can smell the carcass
and hope that they
are too full
to find interest in me
My mother gave me Grapenuts
while other kids got Frootloops
those artificially-colored
little donut shaped
sugar puffed
cereals
in
box
with a toucan
singing commercials
guiding me through the taste
smells and sight of delicious like
candy breakfast nutrition created
to make me want more and more
dVerse prompt— a fruitloop (sp) daydream
Describe a positive thing a family member has done for you.
On safari
with my daughter
sharing the joy
of being together
the thrill of a rare siting
look
a leopard
lots of lions
look
a caracal
small cats are harder to see
antelope
bat-eared fox
caracal
dik dik
elephant
fish eagle
gazelle
hyena
impala
jackal
kudu
lion
mongoose
Nile crocodile
oryx
panther
quagga
rhino
serval
topi
uromastyx
vervet monkey
wildebeest
xerus
yellow baboon
zebra
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NaPoWriMo Day 18 to write an abecedarian. I am on safari now and have seen many of these.
Do you hear the lion roar?
Black maned big boy
walks across the plain
looking for dinner
I hope it’s not me
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NaPoWriMo Day 13 prompt from the serious to funny?
yellow boat resting
unpredictable ocean
comes out of doldrums
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dVerse prompt to write of yellow
look inside of me
no punctuation or caps
only a few words
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NaPoWriMo Day 12– speaking as the poem
“Polepole”
I would hear as I step
from the Land Cruiser
(they don’t want me to fall)
“Polepole”
so I move slow
until my feet
are on the ground
“Karibu”
Welcome
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NaPoWriMo Day 11
The seed of a poem lay dormant in my heart, like turnips I planted last summer, old seed that I threw on the ground. I watered and watered and a few sprouted, needing protection from slugs. I left them in the fall. Their winter was hard and had snow, while I traveled across country, then across continents into Africa, to tropical landscapes and 12 foot kale.
I forgot about my garden back home, my newly planted asparagus, lingonberry bushes, shallots, garlic and those old turnip seeds. Forgot about my hopes that a winter garden was possible.
In March my husband returned home without me (he doesn’t go overseas). He got the urge to work in the garden. His call to me, “Is this a vegetable or a weed?” It was my turnip.
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dVerse prompt flash nonfiction in 144 words or less using the quote in italics by Valsa George from Winged Words
Oh sail away
this bright sunny day
as the waves are few
and the bow leans true
*
Oh sail away
such a colorful array
going wing on wing
hear the ocean sing
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Oh sail away
returning to the bay
done with my rhyme
and running out of time
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NaPoWriMo Day 10 to write a sea shanty
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