The Moping Owl Complains..

[prokopton]

It's not as if I don't know what I am doing here..
but, what am I DOING here?

Hi. It's me. (waves)
Taiwan is a long long way from, Oslo, Seattle, New England, and just about anywhere
but NaPo has a way of bringing us all back together again for frivolity and blood-letting
- as in opening a vein to let the poem spill onto the page.

I heard the siren call, and before my sloop is dashed upon the rocks, I'm going to have another go
at writing a score and a half of poem-like musings.

Best of luck to all you fellows wherever you may be.

1. Nothing Up The Sleeve
2. The Moping Owl Complains
3. Priscilla and Charybdis
4. Wolves
5. Why Do I Play?
6. Ebb and Flow
7. Still Rolling
8. Country Music
9. Norseman Extreme
10. Balance
11. Rain
12. The Wonder of S/He
13. Migration
14. Valkyrie II
15. The Onion of the Night
16. Paean to a Fellow Poet
17. Now. Now. Now.
18. Seeking Lyrids
19. Grave Business
20. double-dactyl
21. No Cat Like An Old Cat
22. A Peak Experience
23. Sandmen
24. Songbird
25. Something in the Air of Morning
26. Gams
27. Le Tour
28. Pandora
29. Love Poem
30. Timed Out

[Featherless Biped]

Good to see you back, ffoGe! I love that moping owl image.

[merelynn]

Happy NaPoMo!

[Dani B]

good luck to you too!

[5th column]

Greeting Geoff - I'm now in Sing so not a million miles away. Might be visiting Taiwan later in the year! Happy NaPing

[prokopton]

1. Nothing Up the Sleeve

What wicked webs we weave
When fiercely striving to conceive
30 poems in 30 days. Will you believe
there’s nothing up the sleeve?

One Poem’s enough for April Fool’s day
And one for each succeeding span
Of night and light; it’s child’s play
At first, but soon the simple plan

Consumes all thought and verve
From morn to dusk and often
Later, any rhyme or theme will serve
As inspiration fades and resolutions soften.

What seems at first just jolly fun,
Ere long rankles, soon it irritates
Before April’s course has run,
Chafing jangled nerves, and grates.

Producing 30 satisfactory conceits
Seems like magic, done all to deceive
But of course it’s not, because, my sweets
there really is nothing up the sleeve.

[Arlene]

Exactly. Thanks for reminding me how irritated I'll feel in 30 days. Put together smartly, and fun to read till the slow deceptive end...it's that sweet rhyme. Maybe a comma after 'because' (S5 L3)?

[prokopton]

Thanks Arlene, that's a good idea - so I snuck it in.
*not a critical forum so I think I can get away with it.

I appreciate your reading,

G.

[prokopton]

2. The Moping Owl Complains

"Oh, Moon," what wickedness is near
as March betimes is ended
and the colder seasons of the year
yield the stage on knee well-bended

to the harbingers of Spring, droning beetles,
drowsy tinklings, lowing herds and swallows
twittering, spread all out as frosty needles
soon will vanish, and fog has filled the hollows.

No more March Hares and Mad Hatters
for thirty days poets quills will scratch
in draughty garrets, lives all tatters;
April's here, NaPo's all that matters.

[5th column]

No more March Hares and Mad Hatters
for thirty days poets, bits will scratch
in puzzlement, they'll gnaw on 'taters
April's here, NaPo's all that matters.

Please forgive the liberty...

[prokopton]

LOL!
Good one.

You're forgiven.

Thx for reading.. and editing.

[Mike M]

I like "droning beetles,drowsy tinklings, lowing herds and swallows
twittering, spread all out as frosty needles
soon will vanish, and fog has filled the hollows."

Fun stuff!

[Word Weaver]

Splendid stuff Inspiring even. I look forward to Napoing with you

[Janet]

Your poems are delightful to read. Springy and fun...make me smile with knowing.

Wonder what the tone will be days 29 and 30.

[prokopton]

I like "droning beetles,drowsy tinklings, lowing herds and swallows
twittering, spread all out as frosty needles
soon will vanish, and fog has filled the hollows."

Fun stuff!

Hi Mike,
thx for reading. If you liked that, then you will love Gray's Elegy which is the inspiration here.
including the moping owl!

G.