2019/11

Global/NaPoWriMo 2019

Day Eleven

ACCIDENTALLY WAITING

Accidentally planned on purpose we drive along the

street with no name to the road that goes to nowhere

pero no one really cares they're only here for the ride

they say that taking part is more fun than winning nine

times out of ten everywhere is about two hours or more

from anywhere else in Metro Manila and the heat doesn't

help much pero why would it we pass a dozen restaurants

on every avenue that aren't restaurants at all they are just

hamburger joints with sweet spaghetti pero that's the way

they like it we couldn't live without it they tell me they tell

me lots of things and then change the plans at the last minute

without telling me or when it's too late for me to do anything

about it that's why sometimes I think some things are like an

actual preconceived incident accidentally waiting to happen

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Here's another version : 

ACCIDENTALLY WAITING II

Incidents accidentally purposely waiting to happen

We drive up streets with no names looking for the road to nowhere

But no one cares they're only here for the roller coaster ride

The taking part is more fun than winning nine times out of ten

Journeys by car in Metro Manila take two hours or more

The heat is relentless but the air conditioning helps much

We pass by dozens of restaurants on every avenue

American brands not restaurants at all hamburger joints

They all sell Filipino sweet spaghetti 'cos they like it

They tell me things lots of things then change the plans at the last ditch

Without telling me or when it's too late for me to change much

Actually that's why I often sometimes think things are like this

Preconceived incidents accidentally waiting to happen

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2019/4

Global/NaPoWriMo 2019

Day Four

CONTROVERSY

Multinationalisation hasn't that been tried before

Colonisation empire building internal feuding

The clocks were ticking till the hour came and went confusion

All of the money spent on pay rises for the gentrified

Sit down order in the Commons chaos in the House of Lords

Missus Mayhem and your Oxbridge party chums boohoo uproar

Never mind the rough sleepers the disabled the job seekers

The unwaged and the working poor keep them begging on the floor

Okay if the leavers really don't know what they voted for

What about a referendum a general election

Some cast their vote upon the moat and it came back soaking wet

Let's have a vote for those that didn't bother to vote at all

Let's put the cat amongst the pigeons show the dog the rabbit

Chuck a Welly or three throw the boot in sideways hobnails up

Or should we turn the other cheek as the towers rise up high

Power mad they want to scrape the sky above our city streets

The ill gotten investment still pours in from banks in Brasil

Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong so what's so wrong with tinned corned beef

Fair trade coffee that some tea leaf said was free but where's the bread

The tainted bread and honey for the Tulip from hamster jam

The self-serve check-outs at the local store and that one world faith

Controversy of religiosity by the back door

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2019/2

Global/NaPoWriMo 2019

Day Two

THE WEDDING

As a little girl drags her dog

leap-frog in the mid-day heat.

Saguday – Diffun Quirino

to the wedding we have come.

The Tricycle with the aubergine

side-car wins the first race.

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Global/NaPoWriMo 2019 Introduction

2019 INTRODUCTION
Hi, I know I said that last year was going to be my final year of doing the NaPoWriMo challenge of thirty poems in thirty days. However, I'm sitting here in The Philippines thinking about the global aspect of the challenge and I really want to get a few thoughts down in this bloggage and elsewhere online. I won't be posting to any of the prompt sites or doing any of the prompts (although, never say never).

CHARIOTS
Chariots race 
up and down
like worker ants 
from town to town
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Day Eight

DAY EIGHT

TO BUDSHEAD CREEK

The angry Troglodyte motorbike gangs

with their flailing chains of steel

Pull wheelies on the forest track outback

and slip slide towards the creek

They live in caves on the housing estate

not a million miles away

On sunny days we walk along the path

to Tamerton Lake and watch

The little boats that only seem to

go bobbing on the ebb and flow

At the bottom of the garden the forest

dips down to Budshead Creek

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Day Seven

DAY SEVEN

CONFINED

Sitting here confined by the flu listening to radio five live

'Cos I won't pay Sky there's not a lot that I can do to change the score

I've heard them say it's just a game but what do they know they're just a bore

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Day Three 2015

JESUS CHRIST

Jesus Christ, if we had known who He was, would we have crucified him?

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NaPoWriMo 2011 Day Seventeen

Posted to The Naisaiku Challenge?
and Writer's Island

Porcini Pizza
Tomato Mozzarella
Champignon Funghi
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Porcini Pizza
Tomato Mozzarella
FUNGHI WOW FUNGHI
Mozzarella Tomato
Pizza Porcini
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Mushroom Pizza, tomato and Mozzarella, champion fun guy. 17042011/2

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