If memory serves, the third week of National Poetry Month is always a bit like hitting the wall. So this week’s twitku are a mixed lot.
April 13
All sort of animals today, mostly birds.to last forever / our lives witnessed, recorded / and sung by the birds
urban savanna / lumbering teen hippo boys / stork-legged teen girls
missing bird flyer / the cat acts suspiciously / the dog looks away
April 14
There’s a rather weak attempt at a pun buried in here.kentucky burgoo / is it porridge, soup or stew? / I haven’t a clue
peripatetic / when wandering patetics / fall madly in love
first sunburn of spring / no comfort to be found from / neglected aloe
April 15
Only two today, grass-stains and deep thoughts about place.down by the water / the ground plays practical jokes / soggy grass-stained butts
this place I call home / who else called it home before / how many more will?
April 16
Another short day, a trip to the airport and the Boston Marathon.romance of travel / standing in security / overpay for food
marathon monday / closed streets shut down the city / sirens fill the air
April 17
Just to be clear, the old guys are yelling at each other’s empty houses. Surreal and entertaining.some say we are dust / but we are water transformed / liquid, solid, gas
elderly neighbors / yelling at empty houses / harmony of hate
echoes in my head / me: but, mom! i looked everywhere! / mom: did you LIFT things?
April 18
The first one is a Limick, sort of. It’s missing a line but it still works. Sort of.the old man from kent / never knew about what grew / from the AC vent
repeating bird song / caught in an infinite groove / making time stand still
midnight is a crow / that drifts across the night sky / the moon in his eye
April 19
The cat reappears, and yes skateboards used to have clay wheels.to shower in clothes / to prepare for the monsoons / or walk about nude?
dead vole at the door / a warning from the cat or / a peace offering
1969 / the mighty pebble could stop / clay skateboard wheels
truth bent like willows / faces betray memory / high school reunion
humor’s conundrum / he who laughs last laughs best or / he who laughs best lasts?
military jets / overhead at fenway park / national treasures
A couple of decent ones cropped up, some I don’t even remember what frame of mind I was in when I wrote them. The usual. I’d pick out some faves but I’d rather hear what struck a chord with y’all.
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Ah yes, I’ve had a dead housemouse delivered at my bedroom door! I don’t think you’ve hit a wall, David, you’ve plowed right through it!
our oldest cat was a champion birder – brought in five in one day once! he’s mellowed in old age and chases more than he catches now.
What struck a chord with me were the birds–the stork-legged girls, the midnight crow, the repeating bird-song that stops time, and our lives sung by the birds.
i have no idea what it is with me and birds. maybe it’s the constant echo of their morning confabs that start at 4 in the morning, maybe something deeper.
all i know is that crows follow me around. and they are often on hand to laugh at my foibles.
I don’t know if it was a typo, but I like the term “limick” for a limerick in the form of a haiku.
ogden nash came up with the limick form, a truncated form of the limerick. i blogged about it some years back, on the other blog.
http://excelsiorfile.blogspot.com/2007/09/poetry-friday-limicks-by-ogden-nash.html
Oh, that Ogden,
I liked the hippo boys and the stork girls. The survival of the fittest in the urban savanna.
Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
we had a near 80 degree spike in the middle of the week. the tweens all gathered at the park by a water fountain. the scene was what it was.
Hi Dave, I liked urban savanna too, and the birdiness theme (esp. the midnight crow). I was also struck by “this place I call home” and “some say we are dust.” Very nice.
i was fond of “some say we are dust” because it came to me all as one sentence that happened to break nicely. not my favorite-favorite, but up there.
Humor’s conundrum is my fave this week.