With your long white wings
come in from the sea
make me a believer that all is possible
when I see your hooked beak
I will sing with joy
and if you walk on the beach with wobbly feet
I will marry again my best friend
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NaPoWriMo April 29 prompt
Noise and confusion
when wildebeests congregate
for the great migration
zebras roam along
find safety in the millions
they are coming for greener lands
from Tanzania to Kenya
across the Mara River
where crocodiles wait
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NaPoWriMo April 15 prompt to be inspired by a stamp
Known power
perhaps a land of sand
as loud mountains collapse
wind and water her daughter
sinned of trees and stone
whisper of cloud flees
snowed flower
a breeze
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NaPoWriMo April 13 prompt to create a word bank poem.
Walking to the hut
in Amboseli National Park
suddenly aggressive monkey
came right at me
It was fearless
I couldn’t shout it down
the gardener threw his rake
scared it away
whoops……
I had bananas in my bag
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NaPoWriMo April 8 prompt
Triceratops stomped on the crustacean earth
tons of grazing herbivore
with a three-horned face
and thirty feet
of bones set in stone
is all that remains
and the twelve inch trioceros
three-horned chameleon
from parts of Africa
found in zoos and pet shops
is reminiscent
of that dinosaur
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NaPoWriMo April 4 prompt to write about something strange from The Strangest Things in the World book written in 1958. I chose Uganda’s Miniature Dinosaur.
I see a tree in your pocket. I hear the buzz of the bee in your locket. The white sand beaches are shifting into the abyss. There is another crack in the earth. Plant the tree. Release the bee. It is time to unwarp the clock of history.
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NaPoWriMo April 3 prompt to write a surreal prose poem. I sure would like to see what AÍ would make of this.
Here’s one
Sometimes it sounds like the start
of a dirty joke rather than a quest
for notorious white whale
(one that could take down ships)
[remembering how killer whales
would attack the keel of a vessel
to take it down in the Mediterranean
or a forty-four foot sperm whale beached
near Tampa Bay]
remembering Moby Dick
on thé high seas
ready to face the harpoon
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NaPoWriMo prompt April 1 to remember a book read years ago. Was in Florida when 44 foot sperm whale beached in Venice.
Today my one year old granddaughter
stood outside
looking outward
blue sky green trees
pointing upward
contemplating
“tee”
pointing again
“tee”
wide eyes
finger pointing
“tee”
and I know
she is saying
tree
“tree” I say
“tree”
“tee”
What is your favorite type of weather?
Goin’ to the beach weather
cold and windy I bundle up
with layers under my down vest
wool cap on my head
mittens
and when it’s hot
I strip down
bare legs
get feet wet
lay in the sand
goin’ to the beach weather
in all kinds of weather
Por que otra vez la Primavera ofrece sus vestidos verdes? Pablo Neruda
He asks why
after winter time
stripped bare again
this precocious Spring
pregnancy which offers
even adorns more of her
abundant frock made green
natures perfect dresses
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dVerse prompt to take a Neruda question with a choice of free verse echoing in English of my own translation of Neruda’s question. Ignore the poem in Portuguese—- cannot figure out how to delete it
dVerse prompt to take a Neruda question with a choice of free verse echoing in English of my own translation of Neruda’s question.
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