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.

[Emily Bronte]

Priscilla and Charybdis is witty, strong stuff Geoff.

Glad you are here and going strong

[5th column]

Wow - I love the closing lines of this last. The bones in there are good and in some ways the close feels like the beginning?

[prokopton]

Wow - I love the closing lines of this last. The bones in there are good and in some ways the close feels like the beginning?

Good. I like it when I can get a "wow" Thanks for reading, and for your encouragement.

Gffeo

[5th column]

Here you go fgoef:

[prokopton]

Priscilla and Charybdis is witty, strong stuff Geoff.

Glad you are here and going strong

Thank you, Em. Nice of you to stop by and comment.
G.

[kristalynn]

"They seem like spirits", yes, really like this one!

[Dunc]

fGfeo

You nailed it, man! - Later, any rhyme or theme will serve / As inspiration fades and resolutions soften. Shakespeare couldn't have put it any clearer.

Then your Moping Owl flies from a Country Churchyard Through the Looking Glass and settles on April Fool's month. Yes, that makes sense.

And alas for poor Alphonse. Not to say poor Priscilla. Oh the human condition!

Liked your wolves. Hard to think of anything that looks more mouldy and scraggly than a moulting wolf. Nice portrait.

Regards / Dunc

[prokopton]

Ah, Dunc, good to hear from you, mate. Thanks for the kind words. It makes the effort worthwhile and the next ones easier. I will be sure to take a run over to the pessimist's soapbox.

Geffo

fGfeo

You nailed it, man! - Later, any rhyme or theme will serve / As inspiration fades and resolutions soften. Shakespeare couldn't have put it any clearer.

Then your Moping Owl flies from a Country Churchyard Through the Looking Glass and settles on April Fool's month. Yes, that makes sense.

And alas for poor Alphonse. Not to say poor Priscilla. Oh the human condition!

Liked your wolves. Hard to think of anything that looks more mouldy and scraggly than a moulting wolf. Nice portrait.

Regards / Dunc

[prokopton]

"They seem like spirits", yes, really like this one!

Thanks Kristalynn, I appreciate your reading my stuff.

G.