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Tuesday, 31 March 2026

Napowrimo 2026

 INTRODUCTION

Who was it that said 'Time flies when you're having fun'? Well if like me, you enjoy writing poetry at any level, and are up for the challenge of writing thirty poems over the next thirty days of April then NaPoWriMo might well be the thing for you. If it is, the time is already here. I've been doing this for a few years now and it's always a fun challenge to write something each day and publish it on my blog. I won't be doing most of the prompts this year or chasing social media accounts for comments, but I'll try my best to write a little piece every day, one way or another.

My Introductory Poem

VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE

Phew is it really nearly April already

okay then watch this space

one of the things about being old

is that you can look back on your life

and remember people and incidents

that happened way back in the past

probably before most people alive today can remember


In my life I've met a number of very important people

(I didn't know that they were important at the time

but looking back I now realise that they were)

anyway one of these very important people told me

that the more you do in life the more you're asked to do

have you ever noticed that well I have

and at the moment I'm up to my eyeballs in projects

but a promise is a promise is a promise

so I'm back and I'll be writing more of this nonsense

and posting here on a regular basis so watch this space

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Friday, 13 March 2026

Unlucky for some...

 

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH

Friday the thirteenth who would have thought it

not me of course but her and a million other

superstitious mothers will lose it all if they fall

and many more than you think most probably will


Bazillions of them crawling out of the proverbial woodwork

dicey as lice before their ship sinks without trace

like the Bismark and the Titanic before her

going down on the ocean bed to a watery grave


With their families still waiting for them back home

only who else could it happen to these days

when nobody loses and everyone's an after dinner winner

the last investigation that they want in all the world begins today


Therefore at the final hurdle everything will unfold

the things we have been told and not been told

the story of those poor men and women will be sold

that lost their lives on land or shipwrecked at sea

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Wednesday, 11 March 2026

In various stages of undress...

 

WHAT SHE EXPECTS

She sends photographs of her boat race most days

Occasionally she poses in various stages of undress


Each picture accompanied by a threatening letter

Don't you dare look at another woman she writes

Sometimes her handwriting is hard to read

Especially when she scrawls her words in blood


I really don't know what she expects of me

I'm chained to a cold damp prison wall

Rats the size of Aussie Joeys bounce around my cell

I beg the Guards to stop giving me her letters


Ignoring me perhaps to torture me

The Screws continue to post them through the bars

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