Temper yourself

NaPoWriMo - Poem #12

When one creates a poem by replacing certain words, it's effectiveness depends on the words you choose...in this case I chose Key(tangible noun) and  Temper (intangible)and replaced the first with the latter in these Google definitions or traits of the first one..I'll be the first to say this is one of my worst efforts..just not in the writing mood today ;)

Learn how easy it is to open a personal bank account with temper   
His tempered manner set the tone of the meeting
A temper is something that secures or controls an entrance
Please use your temper when you reach the house.

One uses temper to specially fit into a lock and move it's bolt
Plan now for your trip to Temper with Florida Special Tourism
Sarah's Temper is the story of an American Journalist
Do you have the temper to the auditorium?
His speech was the temper that unlocked the mystery of the story
A temper to the puzzle must exist
In music, temper refers to pitch..use your ear to find the temper the note in a song
When you have a temper it means you are able to focus, tune into, or single out one thing
Temper in on the moment they start the race.
She was all tempered up before the program.  Tempering in brings a certain degree of intensity to feelings, energy, excitement
Temper is the equivalent to a kilogram of marijuana

Mirage...

                                  






Today we wrote about love and wine -

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 Poem #11



MIRAGE

From a distance it appears a duo - 
dancing on horizon's line
Storm rains rinsed away oily heat,
leaving a drying mud glaze in time
If  old houses could speak and raindrops sing,
their otherworldly image would give way 
to laughter in the stratosphere
In A sharp major key, they'd waltz
up steps in the clouds sheer
He'd twirl her behind his back,
catch her as she came back to him 
And they would lift a glass of wine 

She's gone now,
 with that golden era gone by,
the Tennessee Waltz now passe'
I hear the banjo player slap his thigh
She was wife,  lover, best friend,
the melody of his soul, 
born from seeds sewn a century ago,
From which glint of the sun 
will she return to sit on my knee?
From what star will she descend,
tap my shoulder, 
make a toast to yesterday
and dance away with me?

Send me a letter,
 written in your fine hand;
tell me you are still mine
Take me down that unearthly road,
where bands of souls 
know their track back -
somehow
...and I do believe
I'll see you again,
drink your red lips of wine -
We'll dance to the Blue Danube
I'll scoop you in my arms,
carry you into the sunset's rain

                                                                                                                                                                                            

Poem as advertising... Poem #10

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Poem # 10
Today we are writing a poem that is advertising...ie old Burma Shave signs.  I thought about Obamacare and all the people who will benefit from it and then this....

SENTINAL HEALTH CARE
MERCY HOSPITAL

Our hearts are yours for the time you are here

For all your needs on us you can rely,

We're not  just a building or  place to work,

we are hands on healing, arms standing by

Whether you are waging a tough battle,

or confronting a serious disease

We're sentinel in the highest degree

Our hospital is a temple of care,

We offer you comfort if you dispair

Your health is our foremost priority

Stay well, no need for reciprocity

COMMITTED TO YOUR PEACE OF MIND

"We gotta get outa this place, if it's the last thing we ever do"...Poem #9

NaPoWriMo 7 - Poem #9

"WE GOTTA GET OUTA THIS PLACE, IF IT'S THE LAST THING WE EVER DO".....


"We gotta get outa this place, if it's the last think we ever do"...
"I wanna hold your haaannnnd..."
"Good Golly Miss Molly"

Where did they go, the years,
the Sugar Sugar Shack crowd?
Just when I think I've come to grips
with the passing of time,
I'm reminded of those days
when all was new and changing,
and there was WAR...
Who were they?
WE pinned our goals on a calendar,
college, travel, service, a job -
 some went to 'Nam    
WE were teens who gathered,
caught amid protest songs;
not idle, but dying for our country
Boomers were tested and passed -
we were the voice for a generation
Each generation since has been tested,
has had it's turbulence,
but where are the demonstrations
now?

"A Change is Gonna Come" -
Sam Cooke was born way before his time
Some 'fortunate sons'of privilege
never sent to war,
found greener pastures (Creedence Clearwater)
We "Got up, Stood up for our Rights" (Bob Marley);
we did not give up the fight,
our brothers marched'
Hattie Carroll paid a high price
for no reason (Bob Dylan)
"Power to the People" was sung (The Beatles)
song of the "Revolution",
The beat was carried on by others
who felt one ought not be judged
by the color of their skin
or where they came from
Frank Zappa sang "There was Trouble Every Day"
in 1966, "this ain't no picnic!"
Activism against "The Establishment"
was what was "Goin' On"-
perhaps the best song by Marvin Gaye;
asking what happened to his friends,
Abraham, Martin, and Bobby, John
Blood shed for dreams
of freedom for everyone.

Moms Mabley was color blind -
"We's all human beings"she cried
John Lennon moved the focus
from music to lyrics -
Locked into our memory also
are Crosby Stills and Nash with their
song about Kent State
The Iraq War brought other protest songs
to the foreground
Even as soldiers are arriving home
from Afghanistan there are still
"Lives in the Balance" (Jackson Browne)
and Neil Young now pumps Congress
for "No More Lies", jobs and healthcare
for veterans who fought on dessert sand -
and tell  them to see the world
as we do, but nothing can change
the sacrifices, staggering costs,
never before experienced
or anticipated
This gives me some hope because
I want to keep my soul of the 50's,60's, 70's -
the music and state of mind,
not the injustice;
part of my essence is locked there in time
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

NaPoWriMo 2014 - Poem #8 Nevermore ...

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We are to re-write a famous poet's work today.  I chose 3 paragraphs from Edgar Alan Poe's poem and changed them, but did not do it full justice as it deserves..


NEVERMORE



Once upon a morning dawning, while I wandered, sleepy, yawning
across the meadow so green, overflowing with wildflowers multi-hued 
While I was prancing, so entrancing, suddenly I felt a glancing
As of some one advancing, advancing closer to my side
"Tis some admirer."  I stated, "romancing closer to my side -
               Only this, and nothing more."

Then this young handsome face appeared, startled me so truly I feared
for his manner was less friendly than the handsome young face he bore
Aghast at his audaciousness, I asked him, "Can I help you sir?"
His voice was taunt and sinister, his tone sent shivers through my core'
           Quothe the man, "Nevermore."

I marveled at his plain boldness and approached him with a cold frown
Though I did not understand his answer, so I questioned him more;
"My prince will be soon be here to see me home, leave me alone, kind sir."
Upon my heart I had promised to myself many years before:
        With not such a man again, "Nevermore"

Original -
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, 
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, 
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, 
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 
"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- 
                Only this, and nothing more." 

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, 
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. 
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, 
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore- 
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" 
                Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." 

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, 
Though its answer little meaning- little relevancy bore; 
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being 
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door- 
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, 
                With such name as "Nevermore." 

Bargaining for treasures...

At dversepoets.com Mary asks us:

What is your favorite treasure...not a monetary or jewelry type of thing, but what belongs to you that you treasure most, like a teddy bear? Difficult for me to say....

Bargaining for treasures...

How much for that vintage lamp?
$50?  How about $35?....$40?
I've found many "treasures" 
over the years, items inherited,
all close to my heart
But for me, to pick just one, 
is impossible
We buy items we didn't know 
we needed, an old doorknocker
One can't always get what one wants,
(and rightfully so), a stamp worth a mill'
 so be cautious -
Don't buy according to emotions
for fear someone else might

Estate or yard sales usually end
with both parties satisfied,
but in life's riskier bargaining,
 it's altogether different;
we all have done it 
( at one time or another)
Gambling is much the same
When souls become cards stacked
 on a table or numbered balls
 in a roulette game -
"I'll give up 'such and such' privileges -
if you just let me _ _ _ _", or
" if you give me _ _ _, I promise
 _ _ _ _; "or not, and so it goes

Life is not fair, we hear it all the time

We ask God to be the arbitrator;
we want to negotiate,
 cut corners
Saying it with a sincere, sweet smile 
Instead, we need to cut short
our losses,
know when to stop, slow, or go 
We know nothing certain 
of the future, except we're taught
adages like "acceptance" and "balance"
They are so overused; let your heart 
and mind together decide between 
the old painting and rusty watering can

NaPoWriMo - Poem #7 I love a rainy night...

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

April, 7, 2014
NaPoWriMo - Poem #7
                                                                                                                                                  
The prompt for poem 7 is to write about something we love, inanimate.  Not sure I'll be able to keep this up for 3 more weeks..and do all the reading, which is expected to be reciprocated.   Also for dverse where we are writing about something we treasure.                                                                                                                      

I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
I love a rainy night -
isn't that a song title?
- when I most miss 
your cheek against mine;
On a rainy night,
in front of an amber fire,
I see that photograph 
of me and you; 
memories
Tiny moonstones
in a green velvet pouch -
I take them out, then
put them back again

On a rainy night,
swallows glide 
through the mist, 
sipping raindrops
I consider warming crystals 
of frost on the window pane 
scent of a newborn baby's breath     
I love a rainy night -
the light grows low;
whispering sounds of rain
become like champagne's
 bubbly overflow -
and I am hearing 
Auld Lang Syne

Colors surrounding me.. NaPoWriMo - Poem #6

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April 6, 2014
NaPoWriMo - Poem #6
Using words from what one sees outside one's window:  list some nouns, some colors, a few verbs; put all together in a poem -
*grass, showers, trees, porch, primroses, pansies, coral bells, white, heart, wheelbarrow, sun, bark, heart, geraniums, spring, house, clouds
*green, pink, denim blue, white, salmon, periwinkle blue, mauve, red, brown
*mow, make, plant, meet, smother, drift, grow, , dress, trail, thaw, spread

COLORS SURROUNDING ME

Fine showers drift down
meet the freshly mowed grass,                                                         the misty green grove of cedar trees
means spring has arrived, albeit cautiously
Newly planted pink, yellow and red primroses
dot the pathway; blue denim pansies
take hold in dainty rows
On the porch,  a small brown
wheelbarrow overflows with salmon pink
New Guinea impatience,
clumps of white bucopa,
Sweet geraniums smother the beds
that border the sides of my house
Bleeding heart and coral bells dressed
for viewing outside my bedroom window
Mauve helebores smiles in the corner patch
I plant periwinkle blue lobelia
to cascade from a future hanging basket,
Newly made bark from wood chipped is spread
Sun peeks hrough pewter clouds, 
winter thaws, t
This view outside my picture window
 warms and renew my heart
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

Using Emily Dickenson's words to write a poem..NaPoWriMo - Poem #5

http://www.napowrimo.net/2014/04/day-five/
A bit challenging, to write a poem using each of the words in E. D.'s poem below to end each line of the poem, thereby being able to read it vertically....late but done...


April 5, 2014
NaPoWriMo - Poem #5


My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light! - Emily Dickenson

Sure, I would like to have spawned my
own movement, passionately held a candle,
stumped for a cause, sate the fire that burns
inside of me, knowing just where I am at
Requiring conviction and purpose, qualities both
in the spirit of giving and receiving, satisfying both ends;
To be satisfying it
must be something I keenly feel, believe, and will 
require industriousness; originality and courage, not
an idea that won't last
Finding that main vein, to draw the a plan with the
blood, sweat, and tears required morning and night 

It's not enough to simply think of it, but
to put into action one's words, ah
What passes from my mind and chambers of my 
heart must fight the foes
that take energy from believers, and 
when numbers grow and people march, oh,
it is a sign of cohesiveness in thinking, my
hope to create meaningful change; friends,
we'll give life to a new revolutionary dream, and it
will be a transformation, that gives
new life to an old song sung for a
liberty so lovely, 
if only everyone could see the light

A lune..the nurse stump...NaPoWriMo - Poem #4

April 4, 2014
NaPoWriMo - Poem #4

THE NURSE STUMP


The nurse stump
gathers moss on one side
ferns flourish around

Sun reaches it
late afternoon, and the rain
quenches it's thirst

Refuge or nest
for some, and for others
a storage place

Once stood here
a tall beautiful cedar tree 
fallen yet alive

Within its center
grow baby trees,  the bluest
Forget-Me-Nots