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Poetry Selection of The Week

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National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry Magic 9: Poetic Forms The Magic 9 poetic form is a great example of how a simple form can be created from a mistake and how some of the simplest forms are also the most fun to write. Mother’s Heart Thinking all day of writing line by line   With thoughts of loss fueled by sorrow   To act as though it is all fine   To mask the…

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10 skills I never knew I needed until I adopted my dog

Our dogs, our constant companions, they make us laugh and brighten our day with their antics, I discovered 10 skills that I had, but never knew I needed, until I adopted my dog!

 Acrobat

Don’t believe me, try manoeuvring around a sleeping dog, as you reach and stretch, bend and arabesque on one leg trying to keep your balance, all that’s missing as you forward roll is the stick with the twizzle ribbon.

Hurdler

As above but they are laid across the doorway and you have to launch yourself over or risk stepping on them, and let’s face it, we cannot live with the guilt of that. Recognise this, step on the dog “Oh my poor baby, oh I am so sorry, oh how can I make it better, will a treat make it better, yes a treaty??” Step on your partner “Get in the way much?!?”

Fridge Ninja

The joys of attempting to get literally anything from the fridge without alerting your dog, not happening, if you even make the sneak to the kitchen as you carefully open the door, look down, there they are, with their puppy dog eyes, giving you the “haven’t been fed for a week” look.

Spelling Bee contestant

The art of holding a conversation where whole words are not used, “I was thinking about taking the D-O-G for a W-A-L-K” of course, with a canine brain it does not take long to associate W-A-L-K and walk, especially if someone says “Why don’t you just say walk?”, cue your dog having a complete meltdown and you thinking you live with an idiot, human not canine!

Mime Artist

The having the conversation without having the conversation skill, now needed so the mistake of saying or spelling the words does not occur.   Desperately trying to let your partner know where you are going without using the words to alert the dog, recreating the moves of the famous French mime artiste, Marcel Marceau.

Game Show Host

Your dog spots something, gorgeously smelly, and like the magnificent sound of Mr Babbage from Family Fortunes you shout “UH UH” now under the starter for 10, you race across “leave it” still going for it “What’s this” still going for it and lastly the heart wrenching “Noooooooooooo”.

Bi-Linguist

Suddenly you not only speak in your own language, but you also speak dog, holding whole conversations with a bemused dog as you work your way through a selection of barks, woofs, whimpers and yaps. So cute, as they look at you, turning their heads from side to side, thinking you have gone completely barking (excuse the pun!)

Meteorologist

“Looks like rain, does it look like rain to you” and as you open the door, you loo down at the dog that would normally race up the garden, off the grid like Lewis Hamilton in a Formula One race, who now suddenly thinks the garden is lava, definitely raining!

Contortionist

Sleeping with your furry friend means you have to learn how to sleep in probably THE most uncomfortable positions ever, because, as we all know, there is an unwritten rule when it comes to a sleeping pet, and that is that you do not, under any circumstances, move them. You do, however, look at them adoringly, make various type of cooing noises and take 697 photos and/or videos of them to share on social media.

Finally

Pet Parent

Now this phrase, and pawrent, I know make lots of people cringe, people accuse those that use the phrase as anthropomorphism, but I do not, I believe that it is the simplest word or phrase to let people know exactly how much of a responsibility taking a companion animal into our home is.   You are responsible for every aspect of that living, breathing, feeling animal’s life and should take that responsibility extremely seriously, their health, welfare and happiness is reliant upon you.

Taking a companion animal into our home is a commitment to caring and providing the best life we can.

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“30 Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month” from the Academy of American Poets - over at poets.org. National Poetry Month is still ongoing, even during a 2nd year of a pandemic. -- ssw15

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Write a poem incorporating your favorite beverage, an automotive malfunction, and basketballhttps://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ Flat Tire I’m alone on the side of the road as I watch my tire deflate I think about having a beer but by then it will be too late So waiting I sit on the ball as I really have no good seat and wait for the tow truck to arrive as I space out…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Compose a poem about handshttps://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ Your Hands Upon my back Right down my spine Across my skin It’s so divine For me to stay So you can see The feelings that You give to me Each time you’re near And I there too I realize That I love you.  ©2021 CBialczak PoetryNPM 21

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National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Write a poem. Use the following words in a poem: equal, umbrella, tidy, weight https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ Gardening With my umbrella straight by my side Walking along down the road A bag of rocks in my sac I limp from the weight of the load.   I keep the rocks at my home to make sure the yard is complete I like all my gardens real tidy I like all my work to…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Write a poem about lost love https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ Lost Love Learned Hard There was a time when I knew I loved you My heart broke with the words; lies or truths Never to be known Years passed but the feelings never left Seeing you in a crowd Seeing your smile Feeling your arms around me again Love is rekindled so easily as it never left the heart Until…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry Write a love poem… Our Love I never thought I would  find another love who would make me feel better than I did before but you came and found your way in to my heart  ©2021 CBialczak PoetryNPM 21

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National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry Write a poem that explores a lie you were told There was the day we met againmy heart was soaring like the windthinking we were together that daywas more than anything for which I’d prayto know you did it just to seeif you could hurt me like I hurt theeit pains me still to know how deepyou went to hurt and make me weep. ©2021…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry Write a sestina When I was reading the link about how to write this poem I decided to start with just one stanza and work from there, without worrying where my thoughts would go in the following five stanzas. A thought came to my mind and it was about the kids I used to teach. I don’t know what led me to that but it was there. The…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Write a quatern poemhttps://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ Living Alone in a Cabin Living alone in a cabin Wondering who might stop over Waiting all day by the window Hoping someone would come to call.  Watching the clouds in the blue sky Living alone in a cabin Thinking that life was just perfect Never wanting to tell the truth.  For hours and hours you wait so…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Write a Magic 9 poem using a theme of slavery, freedom, or manumission.https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ I am not totally sure this makes sense but I’m giving it a try! Equality I never believed in my mind  That one is better than you  I don’t believe in the kind  Of treatment so bad to a man  I looked and tried to find  Peace and freedom for all  Like…

[cbialczak1971]

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

National Poetry Month Scavenger Hunt

Find it here: https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ Write a Dizain: Dizain Poems The dizain gets us back in the French form domain, which as regular readers know is a favorite of mine. This particular form was a favorite of 15th and 16th century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats. Here are the basic…

[cbialczak1971]

Looking for Poetry: Poetry Scavenger Hunt

Looking for Poetry: Poetry Scavenger Hunt

For all the information check it out here: https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2021/03/31/looking-for-poetry/ April 1, 2021: Write a love poem My Love for You If I had one wish and you had one too I’d hope that your wish  would definitely come true for my wish is done it’s already here I wished for your love and for you to stay near for I love you so and I always will too So here is my love I…