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Okay, so you've got loads of money and nothing to spend it on, right? Well look no further, this is your opportunity to BUY MY BOOK . You see, I've got a few of my little poetry books that I used to sell for beer money (at the different pub-poetry nights that I used to attend). The one I'm selling here, right now to YOU is called PROPER TROG and OTHER NURSERY NONSENSE and it's a little rhyming thingy that I wrote for my son, when he was a baby. It's going to cost you £2.95 post paid, if you live in the UK or £3.95 for any place else. And here's the deal - You simply send the dosh to my publisher and he'll mail you the goods by return post. But wait, there's more... Like you I don't NEED the money, but I know somebody who does, so for each book we sell I will donate the full cover price of £2.95 GBP to my fave charity MANCHESTER ATAXIA and pay any extra postage that is necessary out of my own pocket. Right, how many copies DO YOU WANT? Oh yes, my Publisher is RAWPRINTZ MANCHESTER.. and you can e-mail him at: propertrog@aol.co.uk

NaPoWriMo April 2009

It's been an interesting month, and I've managed to both read and write a lot of new poetry. The idea of napowrimo is for poets to write a poem a day, for the thirty days of April. Napowrimo stands for national poetry writing month, and is of course an American thing. I took part in it this year, but tried to keep a low key, apart from posting a new poem each day, on this blog. I say that it's been an interesting month because, although my poetry wasn't brilliant, I did manage to dream up The American Sandwich game, and set up a new blog for it. This of course was directly inspired by my participating in napowrimo. So, congratulations to everybody who took part this year, and to those who didn't, I thoroughly recommend that you have a go next year.
-Andy Sewina

NaPoWriMo (30) Totally Optional Prompts

Written for Totally Optional Prompts - Exercise
and NaPoWriMo day thirty

The American Sandwich game... Flash Fiction in 51 syllables, with a poetic filling.

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Here's mine:

BALLS
She threw a pail of ball pond balls, from Toys No Fuss, all over the floor.
Stretching like a potato picker, she snatched them up, two at a time.
She continued to do this, until she had had enough exercise.
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NaPoWriMo (29) Three Word Wednesday

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty-nine
and inspired by and posted to 3WW
CXXXV the words this week are:
Opportunity, Quarrel, and Service.

Firstly, a 'Found' American Sentence.
I use the word 'Found' in the sense that it was written before Allen Ginsberg's proclamation of the seventeen syllable sentence.
EPITAPH
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O death!
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941

The American Sandwich game... Flash Fiction in 51 syllables, with a poetic filling.

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Here's mine:

THE WAR HERO
Despite his upbringing, he graduated with a first class degree.
This was his opportunity to be of service to the nation.
On the battlefield, he was a hero, I have no quarrel with that.
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NaPoWriMo (28)

Written for NaPoWriMo day 28
and The American Sandwich game

THE END?
At one twenty one am, on twelve twenty-one, twenty twelve, we go.
The Ancients can't be wrong, they've already predicted so much before.
But, is this really the end, or did they just run out of rock to smoke?
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NaPoWriMo (27) Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty-seven
and for Monday Poetry Train Revisited
and posted to The NaiSaiKu Challenge?
Inspired by Gautami Tripathy

Mundane meltdown mood
cream and chocolate sprinkles
on triple sundae
TRIPLE SUNDAE
my Sunday tipple
vodka, creme de banana
melts moody Monday
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NaPoWriMo (26) Sunday Scribblings

Written for NaPoWriMo day 26
Inspired by Sunday Scribblings - 'Follow' prompt:

Here's mine:

THEY FOLLOW
Uni-ted in Lublin Warsawza and Dublin
Uni-ted are big in Hong Kong

Uni-ted are thunder, they cheer from Down Under
Uni-ted are strong in Korea

Uni-ted Uni-ted from Bang Kwok to Blighty
Uni-ted they sing in Cadiz

But down my street we all follow the blues
Home, away, win, or lose

‘Cos you know what they say down my end,
well me and my mates anyway

There’s two big teams in Manchester;
City and City reserves
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NaPoWriMo (25) Saturday Scribes & ReadWritePoem

Written for NaPoWriMo day 25
I got the inspiration for this twin poem from two sources
Firstly from a prompt I saw on readwritepoem:
‘A woman left a poem for the milkman instead of a note.’
And secondly from the Saturday Scribes prompt:
Write a twin poem. With the theme; ‘What we need.’

My Mad Method: I wrote two poems, 1, a note for the milkman,
2, a little love poem. Then I cut out each line with a pair of
Scissors and randomly reconstructed the poems, the result is below.

WRONG NOTE
I wrote a note For the milkman
Two pints of sterra For the acrobat
A bokkle of orange To take to work
A pint of Jersey milk For her cornflakes
And a dirty big carton Packed with cream
Not the whatsit fingy Not that thin stuff
But the proper job Deep Devon clotted
A lump of sugar A slice of saffron cake
To suck in the rain The Hog’s pudding’s rising
This is a wish list
But somehow you know He got this poem instead
What we need is this I love you when I wake
I love you when I ache I love you in the morning
You’re my favourite Cup cake, butter fingers
If the truth be known
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NaPoWriMo (24) The American Sandwich

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty-four.

Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited
Also linked this to Saturday Scribes
and any suggestions please?

How to play The American Sandwich game:
Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.

Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

Here's mine:

WILL MY LOVE
I carved a message on your tree, I put it there for all and sundry.
A heart, an arrow, and my name linked to yours, perhaps eternally.
Maybe, I should have waited, will my love be reciprocated?
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NaPoWriMo (23) Totally Optional Prompts

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty-three
and The American Sandwich game
Inspiration from Linda at
Totally Optional Prompts

How to play The American Sandwich game:
Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.

Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

RYTHM STICK
Hit me with a feather, not the one that's tied to the end of your string.
Not one that's heavier than the final straw that broke the Camel's back.
Hit me with your rythm stick, and I'll write poetry for you that rhymes.
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NaPoWriMo (22) Three Word Wednesday

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty-two
and The American Sandwich game
inspired by 3WW the words this week are:
Deceit, Indulge and Oath.

Here's mine:
THREE WORD WHATSIT
"Here's your deceit, sir," said the man at the Fiddlers Ferry gas station.
"Hey, Mac, I asked for a receipt, what part of that don't you understand?"
"Sorry, sir, indulge me, I've taken the oath to play Three Word Whatsit!"
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NaPoWriMo (21) Tuesday NaisaiKu ReadWritePoem

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty-one
Posted to ReadWritePoem
and The NaiSaiKu Challenge?

Vingt-et-un, Pontoon!
Twenty-first century rocks!!
TWENTY-ONE TODAY
Twenty-first century rocks!!
Vingt-et-un, Pontoon!
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The Venetian Church
Looking down on the canal
SCAFFOLDING GOES UP
Looking down on the canal
The Venetian Church
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NaPoWriMo (20) Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Written for NaPoWriMo day twenty
inspired by a picture on Anil Sawan's blog
and posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited

The American Sandwich have you tasted it yet?
Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences. Allen Ginsberg's American Sentence has seventeen syllables. Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.

ROCK EYES
I look into her eyes and the more I look the more I start to see. Her right lines up with my left, incredibly I wait for her to blink. I sit quietly contemplating as the weather erodes the rock.
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NaPoWriMo (19) Sunday Scribblings "Language"

Written for Sunday Scribblings - Language prompt:

An American Sandwich

PURE POETRY
Biblical Babylonia was the melting pot of languages. The Language I speak today is English in one form or another. But the language of my heart is the language of love, pure poetry.

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NaPoWriMo (18) Saturday Scribes

Written for NaPoWriMo day eighteen
and the Saturday Scribes prompt.
The theme this week is Listen
and the given words are
Fence, Eggshell, Ocean and Strum.

SPLISH
SPLASH
Splish
Splash the paint
all over the fence
eggshell white
Wait for it to dry
Ocean Boulevard
Splash
Thump the drum
thrumming with your thumb
strum the strings
Contemplate her cry
Crescendo Cascade
Splish
Splash splish...
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Eggshell White, Ocean Boulevard and Crescendo Cascade are all shades of paint.
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NaPoWriMo (17) Saturday Scribes

Written for NaPoWriMo day seventeen
and posted to Saturday Scribes

DIE IF YOU DO
(DIE IF YOU DON'T)
Cut me, carve me up
and do what you will
with my body when I'm gone

Slash me and slice me
but you won't get my soul
in no hole in the ground

'cos I'll be gone, long gone
back to Tiny Tree, the place
that I came from

I'll be floating again
you won't find my mind
when you disect my brain

If I'm gone by September
I urge you to remember
to recall

You're a long time dead
and like the good book said:
You only get one chance

'cos I'll be gone, long gone
back to the place that I
came from, Tiny Tree

Die if you do, die if you don't
there ain't no wish this
why that or want
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If you do
I don't wanna die
IF YOU DON'T
die wanna don't if
do you I
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NaPoWriMo (16) Totally Optional Prompts

Written for Totally Optional Prompts
and NaPoWriMo day sixteen

Haunted House Picture
My son Jack and his bandmates Daniel and Branko
are in the pictures. You can click on the first photo
to see the next one etc. There are eleven pictures.

THE
HAUNTED
HOUSE
You wouldn't want
to stay there
for the night

You wouldn't want
to stay there
for too long

The Haunted
House Hotel -
I don't think so

The windows
are bricked up
just like the doors

And nothing's
changed for twenty
years or more

Nic asked if we
could buy it
once but no

The powers
that be said:
it's listed you see

and ordinary
folks can't live
with ghosts

you'll have to
stay back there
across the road
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NaPoWriMo (15) Three Word Wednesday

Written for NaPoWriMo day fifteen
Inspired by Lou Reed Vicious and
3WW CXXXIII
the words this week are:
Allure, Perch and Vivid

Here's mine:

Yeah, you're so vivid
you allure me every hour
Don't fall off your perch
FLOWER
Don't fall off your perch
you allure me every hour
Yeah, you're so vivid
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NaPoWriMo (14) Tuesday NaisaiKu ReadWritePoem

Written for NaPoWriMo day fourteen
Prompted at ReadWritePoem and
posted to The NaisaiKu Challenge?

Trip of a lifetime
Travel at the speed of thought
WHY WAIT FOR WINTER
Travel at the speed of thought
Trip of a lifetime
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NaPoWriMo (13) Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Written for NaPoWriMo day thirteen
and posted at Monday Poetry Train Revisited

whatamigonnado?

thirteen is left right left

but I wanna right left right

try as I might I can't

start or end on right

left right left leaves me

stuck on thirteen with you

whatamigonnado?

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NaPoWriMo (12) Sunday Scribblings

Written for the Sunday Scribblings prompt - Scary
and for NaPoWriMo day twelve :

55ARY

She gives me that look

that says she knows

that I know

that she knows

and that’s not scary

but this is when

she gives me that look

that says she knows

that I know that

she knows that she knows

that I know

and that’s really scary

I hope it doesn’t scare you too…

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NaPoWriMo (11) Saturday Scribes & Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Written for NaPoWriMo day eleven :
and posted to Saturday Scribes
and Monday Poetry Train Revisited

MY SECRET
I go to my secret place
in the poetry garden
not many people know this
but you know all my secrets
anyway so it’s okay
my poetry patch really
where I grow poetic things
my favourite are the weeds
I cultivate them ad hoc
in my mind, but they grow theirs
naturally as nature goes
sometimes I will cut an edge
perhaps prune a word or three
mostly I just watch things grow
climb up the poet tree
and sit atop the branches
where the fairies swing is tied
to watch them mirror dancing
(they only tire at sunset)
when I come back down to earth
this is the poem that wrote itself
it told me to write it down like this
making monkey mayhem funky madness
sitting up the poet tree writing down
every word that she whispers to me
the secret of the ages of the rings
the way the wordy wordy wordy sings
and everything she brings from where she comes
and where she goes nobody really knows
she recites her wordy words to my world
and my world doesn’t hear a thing she says
(the wind blows her words whispering to me)
she sister
she secret
society
she says silently – hoping I can hear
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NaPoWriMo (10) Read WritePoem

Written for NaPoWriMo day ten
and posted to ReadWritePoem

He came 'cos he was sent like we came to die, he came to show us why.

He came like we came
but he came to show us why
we came and to die

Like we came to do
but I don't know why do you
remember? me too!

Good Friday
we crucified him
JESUS CHRIST
we crucified him
Good Friday
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NaPoWriMo (9) Totally Optional Prompts

Written for Totally Optional Prompts
and NaPoWriMo day nine:

I played around with the following W words:
Weight way Witches Wizards Wicca want wake
wonder with who whey wax wane world
why wait and warmonger and came up with this:

LIKE LITTLE
MISS MUFFET

I can't take the weight of
your world on my shoulders
why do you wait
for delirium tremens
you wake up with angels
and dream about demons
why do you go
the warmonger way?
At Witches and Wizards
and Wicca you wonder
I don't want you to wax
or the full moon to wane
I want you to be
like Little Miss Muffet
who sat on a tuffet
with her curds and whey
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NaPoWriMo (8) Three Word Wednesday

Written for 3WW CXXXII
and NaPoWriMo day eight.
Todays words at 3WW are:
Flirt Ploy Stunning
Here's mine:

I TELL PORK-PIES

truth by definition is absolute

relative truth is what you tell your mum

sometimes your dad when he lends you his car

stunning as the truth may be it can’t lie

perhaps it’s just my imagination

sometimes I tell pork-pies to flirt with you

quizzical as a hanging judge you think

and decide before I ask you what for

how did Modigliani paint like that

what did Australia used to be called

if you could sail to Tahiti would you

the stuff of life is a little bit like

your own ploy of skirting round the issue

but the truth is still waiting to be told

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NaPoWriMo (7) Tuesday NaisaiKu

Written for NaPoWriMo day Seven
and The NaisaiKu Challenge?

As sprightly as spring
Only in America
NaPoWriMo, Phew!
ONLY IN AMERICA
NaPoWriMo, Phew!
Only in America
As sprightly as spring
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NaPoWriMo (6) Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Written for Monday Poetry Train Revisited
and NaPoWriMo day six:

You have the knowledge!
Remember not to forget...
Do you remember?
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It's time to recall
Don't forget to remember
THE HIDDEN KNOWLEDGE
Don't forget to remember
It's time to recall
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Remember

Not to forget
THE KNOWLEDGE
Forget not to
Remember
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NaPoWriMo (4)

Written for NaPoWriMo day 4
Prompted at ReadWritePoem:

Does she wear make-up?
Hey, if the barn needs painting...
Slap on the lippy!
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4.15 am
the same time as yesterday
what woke you again?

What woke you again
the same time as yesterday?
4.15 am

Four-fifteen am
The same yesterday
WHAT WOKE YOU
the same yesterday
four-fifteen am
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NaPoWriMo (3)

ReadWritePoem napowrimo #3: three in a row
Here's mine:

Crack the shell
Suck the albumen
Break the yoke

Break the yoke
suck the albumen
crack the shell
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Crack the shell
Suck the albumen
BREAK THE YOKE
suck the albumen
crack the shell
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Also written for NaPoWriMo - day three:

LOONY MOON TUNE
I'm making monkey with the loony moon tune
She's changing direction and smiling at me
I'm closer to her when I'm by the sea
She's pulling the tides to be nearer to me

With her I wither and I melt when she comes
Without her, I doubt if I'd ever be true
With her I have everything that I need
Without her I'm nothing for eternity

I blinky blink, blink and she winks back at me
She's making monkey, loony moon tune, with me
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NaPoWriMo (2) Totally Optional Prompts

Written for Totally Optional Prompts - Solitaire
and NaPoWriMo (2)

Tippity top poem
round and round and round it goes
SPINNING SOLITAIRE
round and round and round it goes
tippity top poem
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NaPoWriMo (1) Three Word Wednesday

NaPoWriMo (1) 3WW THE WORDS THIS WEEK ARE:
crush
knack
varied
Here's mine:

To crush nuts like that
you have got to have the knack
THE SKILL IS VARIED
you have got to have the knack
to crush nuts like that
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Tuesday NaisaiKu.. Week Seven

Written for The NaisaiKu Challenge? Week Seven:

Fire screams siren
spring streams into lucid dreams
HARD DRIVE TO DRIVE HARD
Dreams lucid into streams spring
siren screams fire
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Dangerous
as playing with fire
CANDYFLOSS
is playing with fire
dangerous
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Monday Poetry Train Revisited #21

Written for Monday Poetry Train Revisited

PETULIA'S WAITING
Petulia's waiting
she sits contemplating
ain't no kerfuffle but you!
Locked in her closet
a Troglodytes wallet
the names of her lovers
are stencilled in blood...
She thinks that it's okay
to cliche the natives
to commune with the names
on the cemetery wall.
She comments on fan-flicks
and downloads snuff-movies
she thinks that that's groovy
if she thinks at all.
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Sunday Scribblings "Aging"

Written for Sunday Scribblings - "Aging" prompt:

THE ART OF AGING

you’re only as old

as you think you are

I think I’m getting

younger every year

therefore you’ll soon be

catching up with me

twenty years ago

you thought I was old

I was twenty-nine

and you were nineteen

now you’re thirty-nine

and I’m just nineteen

you’re ten years older

than I’ll ever be

you see you’re only

as old as you think

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TOP prompt & RWP

Written for Totally Optional Prompts
and posted to Readwritepoem

Here's mine:

WHEN WINTER’S WANING

Wither whatever warm weather we will

Why wait when winter won’t warm when we will

Which way woes wherever, whoa we will

We will watch with woollen wraps wistfully

We will whistle while we wait woefully

We will wishy washy woo when we want

What wrong way? Why winter writer’s we will

Whittle wax words while winter wanes, we will

We will wear wings with warnings when we work

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We will whacky whack

whacky whack whacky we will

WANING WINTER’S WANING

Will we whacky whack whacky

Whack whacky will we

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