Donner's It's NaPo Time!

[Donner]

NaPo Time!




April 1 - Wishes
April 2 - Mind your tongue now
April 3 - Problem Solving
April 4 - Seventy Four
April 5 - This Sauce was Made for Dippin'
April 6 - Sevenlingesque (It must have been a very cold winter)
April 7 - Late Bloomer
April 8 - American Sentence Variation
April 9 - The Dilemma
April 10 - Connections and Bonus American Sentence
April 11 - Sonnet for a Black Cat
April 12 - Speak Up
April 13 - And there's fresh snow this morning on the Olympics and Bonus American Sentence
April 14 - I want the old Spider Solitaire back,
April 15 - Colorful Years
April 16 - Sevenling (Yesterday was Good Friday)
April 17 - Entomophobia & Bonus Poem
April 18 - Car Maintenance
April 19 - Incognito Versions
April 20 - This Is Chivalry
April 21 - Soup
April 22 - Validated
April 23 - I take the ferry home, you take a plane
April 24 - 30 American Sentences in 30 MinutesChallenge
April 25 - A Poem that Sounds Dirty, but Isn't
April 26 - 1-2-3-4
April 27 - Urp
April 28 - Stalker
April 29 - Roadside Assistance Limerick
April 30 - The man with the world's longest penis is offered a part in a 'doctors and nurses' PORN film

NOW I can do the NaPo happy dance. : )

[5th column]

Almost…..

[Sorella]

Welcome! Glad the Mistress of Ceremonies joins in her own marathon agonies! Especially as I do want to read some Donner in April.

[Blythe]

Hey Donner!!

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

Donner! *waves*

[Cameron Clark]

Good luck good luck

[new leaf]

Donner's got the moves!

[Mittens]

Here's to another year!!

[Scrow]

Yay! I have bath bombs, and rescue remedy, and a small supply of gin. Looking forward to reading you this April.

[Dunc]

Yo Donna

The bell goes for the 18th round!

All good things to your April!

Regards / Dunc

[scraps]

The rhythm may have already gotten you!

[Donner]

Good to see so many familiar NaPo faces participating this year!

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Wishes

What woman asks for a leaf blower
for her 70th birthday instead
of a celebratory Caribbean cruise?
And what son gives her
what she asks for? A cordless one
with multiple speeds, lightweight enough
to hold through the entire job
without hurting her shoulders
and quiet enough that she can start it up
before 9 AM without waking up
the neighbors? A son who works
in the hardware department
and who knows nothing
would make her happier on her day
than a leaf-clean patio and driveway.

[BrianIsSmilingAtYou]

Nice one, playing against stereotypes! And getting a useful leaf blower in the bargain.

BrianIs AtYou

[Scrow]

Very nicely done - and, as ever, shows character by action and love through 'doing' (and, in this case, listening). Nice subtle rhyme at the end, too. And nice repeat of 'up', not at the start of the line, where it would be more usual, but at the end, where it adds a different kind of sense-making through repetition. I feel a tiny bit sorry for the leaves.

Sarah

[Mittens]

I am picturing all the family get-togethers that happen on that patio and all the cars parked in the driveway, and how she'd rather gather with them than be out to sea. And maybe it's just nice to look out at that clean slate, too. Good job son for knowing mom's heart. (I like that break on nothing!) Lovely start!