tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5341245400709587122024-03-05T11:27:58.040-07:00Side TripsLeeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.comBlogger1107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-84296134261397864102020-08-27T18:32:00.003-06:002020-08-27T18:32:32.872-06:00THUNDER AND LIGHTNING FROM THE PORCH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4fMaG1xr9EQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="4fMaG1xr9EQ"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p>Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-24625451333688739122020-08-23T19:07:00.009-06:002020-08-24T15:52:41.576-06:00DRIVING FREIGHT WAGONS ACROSS THE SNAKE RIVER CANYON<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhOFYvJQx1qFG9jM7SSbnvI4KAmkDjEP72G1cSd8CUlwDibaQobkDXikKYnCvyxepJ4RNxNZ1h03gK9wCXPfgzm0NLhBnODXLeUMOv5qZngnZmbnJjYSWwQbMVtOoz8_RtBHJRyE030KM/s600/jack+w+Loal+Hendricks-2.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhOFYvJQx1qFG9jM7SSbnvI4KAmkDjEP72G1cSd8CUlwDibaQobkDXikKYnCvyxepJ4RNxNZ1h03gK9wCXPfgzm0NLhBnODXLeUMOv5qZngnZmbnJjYSWwQbMVtOoz8_RtBHJRyE030KM/w384-h256/jack+w+Loal+Hendricks-2.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">John (S) Cooper --a.k.a. Jack <i>(on the left-Loal Hendricks on the right)</i>, was a “teamster.” This meant he could handle six big horses as they pulled a heavy wagon over dirt roads for many miles. The job took him to Twin Falls, Idaho where he hauled freight for his future father-in-law, Juel Hendricks. Hendricks was using his teams and wagons to bring freight to Twin Falls from Shoshone where the Union Pacific Railroad made a stop. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">Two of Hendricks’ sons, Loal and William (better known as Ace), also drove teams. The wagons were loaded at the train station in Shoshone and traveled the thirty miles south to the city of Twin Falls, Idaho which is built near the edge of the vertical canyon of the Snake River. The only way to cross at that time was by a single lane track that switch-backed down the side of the canyon wall. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA10omipEDUBbkkocWCF9kEqurPXfT07VUBjCDxQNEbptNKT25kC9hrK25KYNPO9nYD2qvrlX3Ri5oon5t4SuvYWuPgOYdBJLfqiJgLSxcbp23hWvMhrFES3OHefp1ceAqqhuqLQSTFcHv/s640/snake+river+ferry.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA10omipEDUBbkkocWCF9kEqurPXfT07VUBjCDxQNEbptNKT25kC9hrK25KYNPO9nYD2qvrlX3Ri5oon5t4SuvYWuPgOYdBJLfqiJgLSxcbp23hWvMhrFES3OHefp1ceAqqhuqLQSTFcHv/w410-h326/snake+river+ferry.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The road then crossed the canyon floor to a ferry on the river. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When Jack and his friends' wagons reached the bottom of the canyon they would race to see who could get to the ferry for the first ride across. Once across the river they drove their wagons up a narrow dug-way that was built into the lava rock walls of the south side. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It
took them all day to go from Shoshone, then down into the canyon to cross
the Snake River by ferry. When they were finally on the south side of the river
they camped for the night. The next day
they traveled the last few miles up the other side and into the town of Twin
Falls. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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to Jack’s son, Lindell, (my dad) at one point the south side road passed under
the waterfall of the Perrine Coulee which dropped over the rim. </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIGRhtg1MeQZ14pkrBeRMc_wYWkbTqjy6dUwn0URVoVUpWeU39OHk4UbWU__tWH7lpnsbMUcvFgS85g58vCfBSTLGB2OwYnZ-M1cuesGncijUBgnZFNBqq9oXeco_JUwTmlK6NkvA-nRY/s2048/SnakeRCanyon+freight+road.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1472" data-original-width="2048" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKIGRhtg1MeQZ14pkrBeRMc_wYWkbTqjy6dUwn0URVoVUpWeU39OHk4UbWU__tWH7lpnsbMUcvFgS85g58vCfBSTLGB2OwYnZ-M1cuesGncijUBgnZFNBqq9oXeco_JUwTmlK6NkvA-nRY/w410-h294/SnakeRCanyon+freight+road.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I found this photo of a freight road going down into the canyon to a ferry which crossed the river but this one was farther downriver toward Buhl and connected the Boise area to a stop on the Transcontinental Railroad at Kelton, Utah. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">If the road passed under Perrine Coulee it had to be near there. I remember my dad, taking me down into the canyon to the Blue Lakes Ranch where we crossed the river and went to the south side of the canyon to see the waterfall as it dropped over the canyon rim. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">I checked Google Street View. Those guys go everywhere! </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1481" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkqfrk9SwwN-x8xicJN2qL1NzkdmUJ6O1iGQSfQEmHeSxHimwfnWhWiCpLuZzHY-2I_lDUEtFJLwxfa2ozLgg1Lo2Zmae7WGEYyUbpbyssrRyK7s_A5trLP6mBAYuH5UeWiQDZVNyVRhPe/w512-h278/perrine+coulie+falls-6+2018.jpg" width="512" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The road, now called the Blue Lakes Grade, is still very narrow but at least it is paved. The sign on the right says, “Caution, yield to uphill traffic.” Note how deep and steep this part of the canyon is and now imagine driving it in a loaded wooden freight wagon behind six big horses on a road which at that time would have been just be a rocky trail.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2m5DX0MUeT7nplbL_WvjYz30cO2fwDEI5olBUVV3_bBeBNRSkqCzNqqirOCwCkfw7KZ3O2YKLUzIDMkrHzJsO-AqTA3MB2o2mbO5IlsdgWfatd-02teIGCBq1asTe1Ak2GJbUr0blpX7/s1146/perrine+coulie+falls-5+2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1146" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr2m5DX0MUeT7nplbL_WvjYz30cO2fwDEI5olBUVV3_bBeBNRSkqCzNqqirOCwCkfw7KZ3O2YKLUzIDMkrHzJsO-AqTA3MB2o2mbO5IlsdgWfatd-02teIGCBq1asTe1Ak2GJbUr0blpX7/w512-h270/perrine+coulie+falls-5+2018.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">At the bottom of the canyon is a campground. But I don’t think Jack, Loal and Ace had picnic tables and a bathroom when they stayed in this area overnight. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLBwsDnFlAOa8AcVQOS7vMsblkfZEP_I1szUMf2xJ7YKdahJCei7jR_CnQ3ZShDwPj4YQsjHAKqTZnuXy7BDa-vWbVnAQ6AsMcYn_unmww8VHupgUfhhCKvNJlIZYW-chel_ft7IunKtf/s1173/perrine+coulie+falls-4+2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1173" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbLBwsDnFlAOa8AcVQOS7vMsblkfZEP_I1szUMf2xJ7YKdahJCei7jR_CnQ3ZShDwPj4YQsjHAKqTZnuXy7BDa-vWbVnAQ6AsMcYn_unmww8VHupgUfhhCKvNJlIZYW-chel_ft7IunKtf/w512-h314/perrine+coulie+falls-4+2018.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Now a bridge takes traffic across the river where the road starts the steep climb up the south side. The Perrine Coulee Waterfall can be seen on the upper right of this photo. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfOnMp1wFy9VqrxcrAFX45azoCEXxzlj8-zq8OaZkx-ZA46wWxuXDHb1TSnfNibm7ViPbg3PuTQTsBHznEZlyKPckrMTpAC1BusrOK1QqxkjJAYHWPbvzEAu53JWtf0Yuq1tHZpOGXUXu/s1817/perrine+coulie+falls-3+2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="832" data-original-width="1817" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfOnMp1wFy9VqrxcrAFX45azoCEXxzlj8-zq8OaZkx-ZA46wWxuXDHb1TSnfNibm7ViPbg3PuTQTsBHznEZlyKPckrMTpAC1BusrOK1QqxkjJAYHWPbvzEAu53JWtf0Yuq1tHZpOGXUXu/w512-h234/perrine+coulie+falls-3+2018.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">More switchbacks and now the Perrine Bridge can be seen a few miles upriver to the east. The bridge was built in 1927 and was the way my family reached the city of Twin Falls where we traveled for shopping from our farm in Dietrich, Idaho. This bridge was replaced in 1976 by a four-lane bridge. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1339" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX6ZhBPfw1otvprpcuxfE1flBuW5tl_XUaGCo_3mkQ6VLsNi9K6zpX61N4jbzPx3iBVpXPKbToKTTfrG2Qaf6AQMoShZnSdgN1qGKMydBxoDKBPk5jcCcL8LO95bxff3geedyReZtJp2U8/w512-h310/perrine+coulie+falls-2+2018.jpg" width="512" /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">Talk about hairpin turns! Even the Google Street View people must have had second thoughts.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEuZx_VRFu-ifXN6-B1PWqnyZ_T1lh2lU_0tuKG0-gAXehCvt7zMEz9p4brJ_T46qz53WOxdxHUEhyj1jWjiBL3uKt2IJoVKRbB0eoWK9PVOH2ALMQT2IWpsQODaswIIds1KEqJ57ZkNo/s1167/perrine+coulie+falls-1+2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="818" data-original-width="1167" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihEuZx_VRFu-ifXN6-B1PWqnyZ_T1lh2lU_0tuKG0-gAXehCvt7zMEz9p4brJ_T46qz53WOxdxHUEhyj1jWjiBL3uKt2IJoVKRbB0eoWK9PVOH2ALMQT2IWpsQODaswIIds1KEqJ57ZkNo/w512-h359/perrine+coulie+falls-1+2018.jpg" width="512" /></a></div> This road doesn’t go right under the falls and I think the water has eroded the canyon back some since Jack drove the canyon in his freight wagon.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkhAMuBYR2wTvbRugTTXFKMMh8OJAgAaGcVPZfm0k-hvaAOi4ki_Vh2LtynX04HxXZ_-LR-RgAemJiY8_ZZGbj7V5xMqpPfQWoU4xaxu_sdho5u4SXYReGqRNK1WWzktJ-hCkutAy_vTcX/s608/through+the+falls.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="608" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkhAMuBYR2wTvbRugTTXFKMMh8OJAgAaGcVPZfm0k-hvaAOi4ki_Vh2LtynX04HxXZ_-LR-RgAemJiY8_ZZGbj7V5xMqpPfQWoU4xaxu_sdho5u4SXYReGqRNK1WWzktJ-hCkutAy_vTcX/w486-h274/through+the+falls.jpg" width="486" /></a></div> But there is a hiking trail which can be taken to a view under the falls.</div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;">The road takes a traveler up the vertical rock canyon wall to the rim which is a few miles from the city of Twin Falls, Idaho.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBD4zeQdrDzOltRNtcyXEyTIWimNXsX73jGVjhsGeF9FMwHQKAC92OD_4GmvJfYvqRlbNSSCRTIod2-ITpX_DunXK8nvXRH3u6lqscZ-eCwsL3zPgTP3LOVUiGhI9wgqGr9Uu47K4dQ58f/s1200/perrine+Coulee+road.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBD4zeQdrDzOltRNtcyXEyTIWimNXsX73jGVjhsGeF9FMwHQKAC92OD_4GmvJfYvqRlbNSSCRTIod2-ITpX_DunXK8nvXRH3u6lqscZ-eCwsL3zPgTP3LOVUiGhI9wgqGr9Uu47K4dQ58f/w512-h384/perrine+Coulee+road.jpg" width="512" /></a></div> Here’s a photo I found of a stage coach stopped near the waterfall. Our pioneer ancestors knew how to travel in style.</div>Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-14264676407420090312020-04-30T09:39:00.000-06:002020-04-30T09:39:11.561-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY THIRTY!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">NaPoWriMo PROMPT: Our final (optional) prompt! In some past years, I’ve challenged you to write a poem of farewell for our thirtieth day, but this year, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem about something that returns. For, just as <a href="https://journeynorth.org/tm/swallow/OnAMission.html">the swallows come back to Capistrano each year</a>, NaPoWriMo will ride again!</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>But…</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After an unfortunate haircut </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I took solace in realizing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My hair would return. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And there is comfort in knowing </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The months of snow will go, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The days of will rain end, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The mud will dry, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The screeching birds </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Outside my window </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I want to sleep </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Will finally take a break. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">What if, like my Barbie’s hair, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They didn’t come back?</span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-36080830566178907152020-04-29T16:31:00.001-06:002020-04-29T16:36:18.213-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY NINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT:</a> Write a paean to the stalwart hero of your household: your pet. Sing high your praises and tell the tale of Kitty McFluffleface’s ascension of Mt. Couch. Let us hear how your intrepid doggo bravely answers the call to adventure whenever the leash jingles. <br />
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Bingo the black and white collie </div>
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Could smile with a grin that was jolly. </div>
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When there wasn’t a herd </div>
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He’d round up the birds. </div>
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When they flew off he’d laugh at his folly. </div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-87003930475914400332020-04-28T14:17:00.000-06:002020-06-23T16:39:38.887-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY EIGHT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT: </a>T</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;">oday’s (optional)
prompt is brought to us by the Emily Dickinson Museum. First, read this <a href="https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/martha-dickinson-bianchi-remembers-her-aunt-emily-dickinson/" style="outline: 0px;"><span style="border: none 1.0pt; color: #33a853; padding: 0in;">brief reminiscence</span></a>: <em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in;">Martha Dickinson Bianchi’s description of her
aunt Emily’s cozy room, scented with hyacinths and a crackling stove, warmly
recalls the setting decades later</span></em><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-style: normal; padding: 0in;">. Describe a bedroom from your
past in a series of descriptive paragraphs or a poem. </span></em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The Best Bedroom Ever</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A tent on a sandy beach </span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of the Salmon River. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Resting on cots. </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">No need for covers. </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Night so warm, </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Rain fly is open. </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Screen keeps out bugs </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But lets in the stars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A breath of sage </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And evergreen </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Floats on the dark. </span></div>
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Far from all sound </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But the grumble </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Of rolling water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A vision of the day </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still sighs through the mind. </span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-28840192607241917212020-04-27T19:28:00.000-06:002020-04-29T16:06:07.258-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY SEVEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-seven-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT</a>: Write a poem in the form of a review. But not a review of a book or a movie of a restaurant. Instead, I challenge you to write a poetic review of something that isn’t normally reviewed. For example, your mother-in-law, the moon, or the year 2020.</span><br />
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<b>Aunt Ellen’s Carrot Cake </b></div>
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She used carrots fresh from the garden. </div>
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She would have scorned baby carrots. </div>
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Aunt Ellen was my husband’s mother’s half-sister. </div>
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She was an experienced cook from Blanding, Utah. </div>
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Her Carrot Cake Recipe is a treasure. </div>
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The simplicity of preparation, </div>
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And the familiar ingredients, </div>
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Put the creation of this fine dessert </div>
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Within reach of even the inexperienced. </div>
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Don’t reject the simple storyline</div>
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And the stained 3x5 card. </div>
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The writing gets to the point without rambling. </div>
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The addition of raisins and walnuts </div>
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Was not an unexpected plot twist. </div>
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In fact, they were necessary for the final result. </div>
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Aunt Ellen’s Carrot cake will not disappoint. </div>
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Five Stars. </div>
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<b>Spoiler Alert</b>—The Actual Recipe copied from her own stained 3x5 card follows: </div>
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<i><b>AUNT ELLEN’S CARROT CAKE </b></i></div>
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<i>In a large mixing bowl cream together: </i></div>
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<i>1 ½ cups shortening (part can be soft butter) </i></div>
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<i>2 cups white or brown sugar </i></div>
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<i>Add: </i></div>
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<i>4 eggs, one at a time </i></div>
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<i>Peel and grate enough carrots to yield 3 cups </i></div>
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<i>Add and mix well. </i></div>
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<i>Sift together and add: </i></div>
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<i>2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour </i></div>
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<i>1 ½ teaspoons baking soda </i></div>
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<i>2 teaspoons cinnamon. </i></div>
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<i>Stir in: </i></div>
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<i>1 cup chopped walnuts </i></div>
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<i>1 cup raisins </i></div>
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<i>Pour the batter into a greased and floured 13x9 baking pan </i></div>
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<i>Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour at 350 degrees (Fahrenheit) </i></div>
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<i>Note: A cream cheese frosting is traditional but this cake is so rich and moist, it is not necessary.</i></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-23604762107381073882020-04-26T16:05:00.002-06:002020-04-27T12:21:13.240-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY SIX<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT:</a> For this prompt, you will need to fill out, in five minutes or less, the following “Almanac Questionnaire.” Then, use your responses as to basis for a poem.</div>
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<b>Whiteout</b> </div>
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Snowing. No, a blizzard </div>
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Five days of blizzard. </div>
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Earl has been gone for three. </div>
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Went off through the evergreens </div>
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Leaving me in this reeking cabin </div>
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With a barrel of pinto beans, </div>
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A hind quarter of frozen moose, </div>
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A bag of dog food, </div>
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And two sled dogs. </div>
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My dreams of </div>
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Being eaten alive by wolves </div>
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Have returned. </div>
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Seeing those huge tracks </div>
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By the junk cars in town </div>
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Didn’t help. </div>
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I’m supposed to be </div>
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Guarding our stash of beaver pelts. </div>
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What a joke. </div>
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The newspaper left by </div>
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Crazy Harlan </div>
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Was full of conspiracies </div>
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About poison snow. </div>
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And an escaped llama </div>
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That shut down the Juneau Airport. </div>
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After he took off for Fairbanks </div>
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I saw he’d written “I wish I was Banksy” </div>
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On our barn wall. </div>
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Maybe he will send me a letter. </div>
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"The weather is fine in Cancun." </div>
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I’ll send him a postcard of a moose. </div>
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So I sit here dressed in layers </div>
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Of wool sweaters and fleece </div>
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Listening to the howling wind </div>
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Or howling wolves </div>
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I can’t tell. </div>
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It’s grim. </div>
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I cheer myself up by remembering </div>
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Playing in the river </div>
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When I was a kid. </div>
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Then I think about </div>
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The Kraken. </div>
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And then <b>The Wendigo, </b></div>
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<b>The cannibal monster </b></div>
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<b>That lives in the north woods.</b> </div>
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And what if this whole world </div>
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Is really just a snow globe. </div>
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And the sky is a glass dome </div>
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And someone is getting ready </div>
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To drop and break it?</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-67231750604601954342020-04-25T13:17:00.000-06:002020-04-25T18:04:20.950-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY FIVE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">NaPoWriMo PROMPT: Today—off prompt</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perry the Platypus from Phineas and Ferb</td></tr>
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<b>Maybe a Flamethrower Would Help</b></div>
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Lying to myself </div>
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Here in my bed, </div>
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Watching the ceiling fan </div>
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Over my head. </div>
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Wonder if there’s monsters? </div>
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Should they be fed? </div>
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What about the ghost </div>
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In the bedspread?</div>
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All of the signs— </div>
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Have I misread? </div>
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All of the clever things </div>
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I could have said.</div>
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Bogeyman waits—</div>
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Is that asinine? </div>
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Should I get up, </div>
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Or should I recline? </div>
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Don’t be a baby. </div>
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Just grow a spine. </div>
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Hit pause. Breathe. </div>
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I just need time. </div>
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I will survive </div>
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Foolish land mines. </div>
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So many scares </div>
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Are cured by sunshine. </div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-51256311870798574452020-04-24T11:39:00.001-06:002020-04-30T15:42:52.004-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY FOUR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT</a>: Write about a particular fruit – your choice, but describe this fruit as closely as possible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Maracuyà </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in Cusco Peru, after two weeks of trains,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Buses and taxis and boats and airplanes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now seeking only a meal and a rest.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing outlandish, what would you suggest? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We went with a friend to a door in a wall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Where pizza aromas sent out a call.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We soon had a dinner too good to behold,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And a pitcher of liquid as yellow as gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was fruity and citric and mellow and sweet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">From the Amazon jungle, a wonderful treat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is called Maracuyà, a gold passion fruit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">We all loved the flavor, there was no dispute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The size of an egg with a pineapple zing,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Black seeds; fleshy fruit to make the tongue sing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many things I’ve forgot from the trip, it is true,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But I’ll always recall the gold fruit of Peru.</span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-38212530726683993432020-04-23T12:28:00.001-06:002020-04-25T13:35:41.503-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY THREE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">NaPoWriMo PROMPT: Write a poem about a particular letter of the alphabet, or perhaps, the letters that form a short word.</span><br />
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<b>The Twenty-Seventh Letter </b></div>
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She follows after Z. </div>
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Most agree she is a character,</div>
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And a bit eccentric, </div>
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But she knows how to make connections. </div>
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When she’s Roman </div>
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And Italic--she‘s curvaceous.</div>
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Sometimes she’s relaxed,</div>
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Or, one of my favorites, </div>
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A true classic.</div>
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But don’t call her a dingbat. </div>
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Dingbats are just ornamental.</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-55684606555433396412020-04-22T20:13:00.002-06:002020-04-22T20:30:02.147-06:00NoPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY TWO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Czech said, “No need to walk around the porridge.” </div>
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“Yes,” said the Frenchman, “The carrots are cooked.” </div>
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“But there’s no need to make a bull out of a fly,” warned the Finn. </div>
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“You’re right,” agreed the man from Japan. “Even monkeys fall from trees.” </div>
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“Still, not all donuts come with a hole,” warned the Italian. </div>
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“Well” Said the Swede, “There’s no cow on the ice.” </div>
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“Yeah, no need to cry over spilt milk,” sighed the Yank. </div>
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“We may be going bananas but there’s gotta be a light at the end of the tunnel.” </div>
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“Yes,” agreed the German, “everything has an end, only the sausage has two.” </div>
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“I’m not so sure,” said the Japanese. </div>
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“If you speak of tomorrow, the rats in the ceiling will laugh.”</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-3218226979104742402020-04-21T15:32:00.000-06:002020-04-22T20:07:04.688-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY ONE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NaPoWriMo PROMPT: Find a poem in a language that you don’t know, and perform a “homophonic translation” on it. What does that mean? Well, it means to try to translate the poem simply based on how it sounds.<br />
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Here's my phonic translation of <i>Heimliche Stunde</i> by Joachim Ringelnatz--as far as I can tell it has something to do with ghostly dreams.</div>
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<b>Choked and Stunned </b></div>
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I’m inclined to skip church or die from dampness. </div>
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Kind of a war against geezers. </div>
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It’s a zoo for gibbon muttering. </div>
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Come out, dash. Shoot back or get flogged. </div>
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He’s going to bloomin’ blow my face off! </div>
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Meet door songs with a squeak. </div>
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Each labor’s got a mean fruit, </div>
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Mean whining and mean ducks.</div>
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<b>Heimliche Stunde</b></div>
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Ein kleiner Spuk durch due Dampfheizung ging.</div>
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Keine Uhr war aufgezogen.</div>
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Ein zu fruh geborener Schmetterling</div>
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Kam auf das Schachbrett geflogen.</div>
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Mit der Sonne wie eine Schnecke.</div>
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Ich liebe Gott und meine Frau,</div>
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Meine Wohnung und meine Decke.</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-55488504288873778682020-04-20T19:47:00.000-06:002020-04-20T19:47:21.950-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWENTY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Reminder </b></div>
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Mom and Dad took a break </div>
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From milking cows twice a day, </div>
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Traveled with a tour group </div>
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To see—what else? More cows. </div>
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They brought back a souvenir. </div>
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A brightly painted whirligig </div>
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Created out of wood. </div>
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A little black and white cow </div>
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And a little farmer. </div>
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They installed it on a fence post. </div>
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When the wind blew </div>
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The attached windmill turned. </div>
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The farmer went into action milking his cow. </div>
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Years later I found it on Dad’s workbench </div>
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Broken. </div>
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The Idaho wind had been unforgiving. </div>
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Dad was gone and now so was Mom. </div>
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The whirligig came home with me. </div>
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We fixed the propeller blade, </div>
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Cleaned it up and applied a new coat of paint. </div>
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The farmer and the cow are retired now. </div>
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They rest by my window </div>
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Where they can catch </div>
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An occasional breeze.</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-84924075931509279052020-04-19T18:55:00.000-06:002020-04-19T18:55:01.801-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY NINETEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NaPoWriMo PROMPT: write a poem based on a “walking archive.” What’s that? Well, it’s when you go on a walk and gather up interesting thing – a flower, a strange piece of bark, a rock. This then becomes your “walking archive” – the physical instantiation of your walk. <div>
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<b>Shooting Birds--19 April 2020 </b></div>
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All winter long </div>
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The usual birds </div>
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When summer ends, when cold winds blow </div>
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When rivers freeze</div>
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And don’t forget the chickadees. </div>
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They endure the months of snow. </div>
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In March </div>
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Robins.</div>
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Robins overflow. </div>
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Out on the lake</div>
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I saw loons</div>
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The hawks are back.</div>
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Kingfishers too. </div>
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Swallows</div>
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Duck</div>
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Duck</div>
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Goose.</div>
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<i>(all my photos--most taken today--19 March 2020)</i></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-26424708035588858562020-04-18T11:59:00.000-06:002020-04-18T11:59:35.302-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY EIGHTEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Six Months Later </b></span></div>
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Some day last October, the weather getting colder </div>
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There was extreme exposure, my sandal days were over. </div>
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My toes cried, my soul died, the snow flyed. </div>
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Six months of boots, fuzzy hats, snow suits, </div>
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Thinking of warm sand, umbrella drinks in the hand, </div>
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Falling in love to the rhythm of a steel drum band. </div>
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Now smiling-- morning sun, worst of winter almost done </div>
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Three little birds by my door say the blizzards ain’t no more. </div>
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Singing melodies, sing of fun, sandal days have begun! </div>
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Don’t worry about a thing. Now’s a day to laugh and sing. </div>
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Toes are out, soft and pink, sandal time don’t you think? </div>
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Sky is blue, lawn is grassy. </div>
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Don’t worry be happy.</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-71443620312312940042020-04-17T16:05:00.001-06:002020-04-19T11:14:57.664-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY SEVENTEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I think Santa brought it. </div>
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It looked like a small suitcase, </div>
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But inside was magic. </div>
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Place a plastic disk </div>
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On the spinning turntable, </div>
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Drop the needle </div>
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And suddenly sounds! </div>
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We bought more records. </div>
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Most were black vinyl </div>
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But some were bright colors </div>
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Colored pictures </div>
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On their grooved surface. </div>
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We had a choice of 78, 45 or 33 rpm. </div>
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Forty-fives had big holes—played one song. </div>
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Thirty-threes had a gentle turn. </div>
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Seventy-eights went fast, </div>
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We’d have to be ready </div>
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To flip or change. </div>
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Dad was known to spin Mom </div>
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Across the living room </div>
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To dance tunes. </div>
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We heard silly melodies, </div>
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Funny stories, </div>
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And adventures </div>
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To open our imaginations. </div>
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We listened until the grooves wore down </div>
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But left grooves in our memory </div>
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Which can still resonate </div>
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When conditions are right.</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-75529487536496565852020-04-16T20:13:00.002-06:002020-04-17T14:25:43.410-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY SIXTEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
NaPoWriMo PROMPT: (using a prompt from 2017) Write a poem that recounts a creation myth. It doesn’t have to be an existing creation myth, or even recount how all of creation came to be. It could be, for example, your own take on the creation of ball-point pens, or the discovery of knitting. Your myth can be as big or small as you would like, as serious or silly as you make it.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Many, many years ago</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">When things were not like they are now </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The hippos lived a lovely life</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eating grapes and pomelos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They played along the river’s edge</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Because they feared the water deep. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All hippos swam in muddy ponds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Except the two they called the freaks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Those two dove and swam so much </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Their nose holes moved up on their heads. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They lost the legs they had in back </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And grew flappy tails instead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They swam so far they found the sea. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They learned to sing a lonely wail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">And over time they grew so big</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">That both of them became a whale.</span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-50431936855193916612020-04-15T10:41:00.000-06:002020-04-15T13:44:30.083-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY FIFTEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT</a>: Try to recreate the sounds and timing of a pop ballad, a jazz improvisation, or a Bach fugue. That could mean incorporating refrains, neologisms and flights of whimsy, or repeating/inverting lines or ideas – whatever your chosen musical form would seem to require! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>And Further More—Get Off My Lawn!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve said this so often that it prolee makes you sick;</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Rap is just bad poetry somebody set to myoozick.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All these guys with chains and knives all tryna make a rhyme.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They’ve got no clue ‘bout meter or the rules set down by time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They wouldn’t know a sonnet if it punched them in the face</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Calling rap words lyrics is a horrible disgrace.</span></span><br />
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-91588680647525738372020-04-14T11:09:00.000-06:002020-04-14T11:09:39.389-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY FOURTEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">NaPoWriMo PROMPT--Write a poem that deals with the poems, poets, and other people who inspired you to write poems. </span><br />
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<b>Two Summer Days </b></div>
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William Shakespeare and Mary Oliver: </div>
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Both skilled writers, </div>
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Both observers. </div>
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They knew nature’s changing course. </div>
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Each spent time watching </div>
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The grasses in the wind, </div>
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Clouds across the sun. </div>
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Both saw the shifting of seasons, </div>
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The passage of time </div>
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And the fickleness of life and love. </div>
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But doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? </div>
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Still, death can’t brag over Mary and William. </div>
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Their words live on. </div>
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What can I learn </div>
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From two poets </div>
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Born centuries apart </div>
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Whose words live </div>
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Beyond their life? </div>
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If you want love to last</div>
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And beauty </div>
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And hope</div>
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And joy--</div>
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Write it down.</div>
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Share it.</div>
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Art is long. Life is short.</div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-29513633552110093842020-04-13T11:16:00.000-06:002020-04-13T11:16:04.282-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY THIRTEEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT:</a> Write a non-apology for the things you’ve stolen. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Not Sorry </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember when you saw her weeks ago? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">How smitten you were with those big brown eyes? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You said, “I’ll bring her home,” and I said, “No!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">That she’d be trouble and a pain besides. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You brought her. Then you left her here with me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While you were gone away I saw those eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She made a mess and thought the food was free </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Then cuddled up and wooed me with her sighs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One afternoon we went out for a walk </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">She has that smile. How could I tell her no? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I told myself that all we’d do was talk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I didn’t realize how far we’d go. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your dog is my dog. You can see it’s true. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Not sorry that she loves me more than you.</span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-47907276280552781832020-04-12T15:23:00.003-06:002020-04-12T15:23:46.456-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TWELVE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-8/"><b>NaPoWriMo PROMPT</b>:</a> Write <a href="https://poets.org/glossary/triolet">a triolet</a>. These eight-line poems involve repeating lines and a tight rhyme scheme. Note: I didn’t stick strictly to the form but did have fun with the pattern. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Turnabout</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The streets are empty, the people inside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The world is doing a big lockdown. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Noise is gone. Quiet’s amplified. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The germs take over and people hide. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The empty streets do have an upside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Creatures enjoy the kid’s playgrounds. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The wild which the tourists occupied </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Is now alive with animal sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Ouch</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This poem isn’t by Chekov. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It isn’t even by his wife. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s not a vision from above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I wrote it standing by the stove. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s not inspired by lost love </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But makes a point sharp as a knife. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While reading it you’ll see that you’ve </span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-69664554995220524032020-04-11T11:11:00.000-06:002020-04-11T11:13:00.976-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY ELEVEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-8/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT</a>: Write a poem in which one or more flowers take on specific meanings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Late Bloomers</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I like coneflowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh, sure, daffodils and crocus </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Relieve the dreary grays of winter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Primrose, lavender, rosemary, myrtle, lily. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Daisy, violets, pansies </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Inspired Burns, Keats and Shelley. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Everybody loves a rose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Their colors cheer, their perfumes soothe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But coneflowers wait </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Til others fade in summer heat. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bringing smiles when they’re needed, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They stand for strength, endurance, healing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Their pink petals catch the sunrise </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And persevere until sundown for days. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Like pioneers of the prairies </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They survive and persist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And there in their center</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Curls up for a nap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>(illustration is one of my watercolors. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/WatercolorsbyLeenie">See more here</a>.<span id="goog_26748190"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_26748191"></span>)</i></span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-48631467651559271672020-04-10T13:22:00.000-06:002020-04-11T10:58:59.566-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY TEN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-8/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT:</a> Write a hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words. You can write just one, or chain several together into a longer poem.</span><br />
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-45593701173935071792020-04-09T09:44:00.000-06:002020-04-09T09:44:01.505-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY NINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-6/">NaPoWriMo PROMPT:</a> Write a “concrete” poem – a poem in which the lines and words are organized to take a shape that reflects in some way the theme of the poem. <br /><br /> <br /><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">SNOW MOBILE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Slowly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sailing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Feathers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Falling</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Drifting </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Downward </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Softly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sliding </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Moistly </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Melting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> In</span></div>
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Leeniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17655189620056032790noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-534124540070958712.post-73919263886511141132020-04-08T10:58:00.000-06:002020-04-09T11:07:00.268-06:00NaPoWriMo--DAY EIGHT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-7/">NapoWriPo PROMPT:</a> Peruse the work of one or more of these twitter bots, and use a line or two, or a phrase or even a word that stands out to you, as the seed for your own poem.</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: inherit;">Crazy Man Dies*</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I met a traveler dressed in camo green. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His two vast legs had pockets down each side. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His rifle was a cold killing machine. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His sneering face had greenish paint applied. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I asked him why he wore the combat gear.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“I’m hunting fuzzy wabbits in the wood,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Or maybe just a porcupine or deer..</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But right now a loo would do me good.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I said, “You think out here you’ll find a loo?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ask any bear around and he will say;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Right on the ground is where you leave your poo.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">I</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">t greens the grass as soon as it decays.' " </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He wrinkled up his lip just like a king.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">“If I did that may lightning strike me dead.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">A cloud let loose and struck him with a zing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Nothing beside remains but melted lead.</span><br />
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*Ozymandias--(see what I did there?)</div>
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