NaPoWriMo 2014 Day Eight

Day Eight

NaPoWriMo 2014

And now for today’s (optional, as always!) prompt. Today, let’s rewrite a famous poem, giving it our own spin. While any famous poem will do, if you haven’t already got one in mind, why not try your own version of Cesar Vallejo’s Black Stone Lying on a White Stone? If you’re not exactly sure how such a poem could be “re-written,” check out this recent poem by Stephen Burt, which riffs on Vallejo’s. Happy writing!

I did my version of Shakespeare's sonnet 18

ON THE EIGHTH DAY

On the eighth day god created Manchester

More lovely than any place he made

Rough winds and rain to come before Easter

Summer’s over before the world cup’s played

And yet a heat wave has been forecast soon

The sick squid all rides free unfair funfair

This week the planets line up with the moon

It’s not coincidence that we’ll be there

But our eternal summer’s still to come

As everything around us fades away

Our fair ground at Platt Fields will still be fun

And the eternal tightrope will not fray

So long as we with third eye still can see

Enslave the queen and this gives life to me

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My Day Eight from 2013 

NaPoWriMo 2011 Day Fifteen

The prompt at NaPoWriMo.net is to write a sonnet.

STOLEN LOVE
What is it that you want and why ask me
Why is it that you always have to leave
I don't envisage half the things you see
And when you go will you leave me to grieve

Each day you spent with me in the garden
Seemed like a lifetime full of stolen love
I remember when we were just children
And you would climb high in the tree above

The apples that you threw down to the ground
Confirmed your love for me and made me smile
How I wish that those days were still around
And we could take the boat out to the Isle

I sit here waiting for you to return
Till past midnight and watch the candle burn
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A LITTLE SONG
Here's a little song that I wrote for you.
It goes Oh, Oh de bar' skins all day long.
Hey, Oh de bar' skins, yeah I love you too.
Come on, everybody can sing this song.
Oh de bar' skins, same story every day!
When they getting dressed, hey? Oh de bar' skins!
Oh de bar' skins, every day the same way.
Oh de, Oh de, Oh de, Oh the same things.
Everybody knows this song, three, two, one.
Oh de, Oh de, Oh de, Oh don't you know?
Everybody loves this song, it's such fun!
Oh de bar' skins, all day long, it's your go..
It's, Oh de bar' skins, every day and night.
It's, Oh de, Oh de, Oh please hold me tight!
230108
Oh de bar' skins = The bare skins. Bar' pronounced bart.
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