The Moping Owl Complains..

[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]

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

[prokopton]

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

Thanks Kristalynn, I appreciate your reading my stuff.

G.

[5th column]

Here you go fgoef:

[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]

5. Why Do I Play?

Solitaire, black on red, red on black,
one number less than the card on which you lay it
and there's no do overs, no going back
you can't get better, no matter how you play it.

You got to play the cards you're dealt,
concentrate, worry, work up a sweat
it's solitaire or patience, however that's spelt
Twelve per cent wins is all you're gonna get.

Is it the sound effects, the "whffftt,"
or the stimulus of pretty colours,
the multiple possibilities, the shift
of suits, that helps to pass the hours?

I used to play with pasteboards
and could shuffle pretty well
at least I got to use my hands;
that's gone, so what the Hell?

Now I click two fingers on the mouse pad,
drink cheap Bordeaux and play solitaire
on my laptop computer. Boy, I'm glad
I'm not betting, 'cos wins are bloody rare.

[Emilio]

I've fallen to many women named, Charys. My problem is, I do not have good enough friends to tie me to a mast. So now, I write poetry. With my feet. Cause I tie my own hands, heh? And I enjoyed this poem, Geffo. Btw, no kitty ditty this year? Or am I missing the link? Traditions are scarce these days, you know.

Best,

[Tony Hoffman]

Priscilla and Charybdis is brilliant! I loved Wolves; hope to see some in the wild one day.

[prokopton]

I've fallen to many women named, Charys. My problem is, I do not have good enough friends to tie me to a mast. So now, I write poetry. With my feet. Cause I tie my own hands, heh? And I enjoyed this poem, Geffo. Btw, no kitty ditty this year? Or am I missing the link? Traditions are scarce these days, you know.

Best,

Hi Emilio,
thanks for stopping by. I am glad you liked it. Girls named Charys, what can I say? heh.
Kitty Ditty Challenge is not until the second week at the earliest (thanks for remembering) because peeps still have ideas of their own for the first 7-10 days. After that we need some new ideas, new stimulus to keep us writing, yeah?
Be Patient. It will happen. Meanwhile thx again, keep writing!

G.

[prokopton]

Priscilla and Charybdis is brilliant! I loved Wolves; hope to see some in the wild one day.

Tony! What a nice surprise. I am thrilled that you liked Pris' & Char' it was a risk. How many peeps have a classical education these days? New generation's all rap, you know?
Wolves was in part inspired by another Napoet and I am grateful for that.

cheers, Tony!

fGfoe

[prokopton]

6. Ebb and Flow

There are 30 chartered sloops anchored in the harbour
including one with a sugar-pink hull
- looking like a strangled whale's tongue.
All are tipped over at drunken angles.
Stupid tourists dropped their hooks, went ashore
never checked the fall of the tide.

At ebb of the Spring tide the harbour empties,
it could really use dredging, but locals know
the score. Every year it's the same damn thing.
At closing time the visitors return from the pub
to find their yachts ass over tea kettle,
spreaders in the muck, their luggage on the galley floor
and their rubber dinghies hanging by their painters
on the wall of the dock, oars scattered about the basin.
We like to get a laugh at their expense. Happens every year.

[kristalynn]

I love the word pasteboards for playing cards. Never heard it before. I liked your Solitaire poem, the "whfftt" and the twelve percent wins.

[Tony Hoffman]

Thanks for giving me a laugh at their expense as well. (Not that I would have done any better than them--perhaps.)

[prokopton]

I love the word pasteboards for playing cards. Never heard it before. I liked your Solitaire poem, the "whfftt" and the twelve percent wins.

It's almost an addiction, kristalynn. I am trying to figure it out. Thx for reading. btw, I dropped to 11% yesterday.
Gfoef

[prokopton]

Thanks for giving me a laugh at their expense as well. (Not that I would have done any better than them--perhaps.)

St. Peterport Tide Tables 2016

St Peterport, Channel Islands, UK on a spring day with a 10 meter tide!


I was there, Tony, biggest surprise of my life!
Thx for reading.

ffGoe