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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Three Word Wednesday CXXX

3WW This week the words are: earnest, layer, reactive.

Here's mine:

Layer on layer
proactive, reactive me
earnest impromptu

Layer on layer, proactive reactive me, earnest impromptu.

Layer on layer
proactive, reactive me
EARNEST IMPROMPTU
me reactive? proactive!
Layer on layer...
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Monday Poetry Train Revisited #20

Written for Monday Poetry Train Revisited
And posted to The NaisaiKu Challenge

Miamiesqueish
Urbanizacionic
PLAYA SUN SAND SI
Urbanizacionic
Miamiesqueish
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Sunday Scribblings "I Come From... "

Written for Sunday Scribblings "I Come From... " prompt

“I COME FROM… PHEW!”

I came from the void, sitting there alone

like you, waiting in that eternal hell

we waited and waited for life to come

and snatch us up into the breast of time

some said it was just a test and the rest

they didn’t care, they wanted out of there

at any cost, any way they could go

to time, even if it meant their return

back to the zone where they would burn and burn

but you and I both knew back then, as now

that we would be the chosen few, the free

as we elected to be chosen to

come to time to experience new birth

and to enjoy the blessings of this earth

we now can recall our eternal day

as we remember why we came to time

this is the day to say: “I come from… phew!”

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Tuesday NaisaiKu.. Week Five

Written in Tenerife for The NaisaiKu Challenge!

Peeling unfolding
Pentagram revelation
ILLUMINATI
Pentagram revelation
Peeling unfolding
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One Single Impression - Fork

Written for One Single Impression - 'Fork in the road'
And posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited

Left fork
Leads to Rome
-FORK OFF-
Roam to Leeds
Fork left
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Sunday Scribblings "Listen up!"

Written for Sunday Scribblings - Listen up! prompt...

Listen up because
This is very important!
SEX BEFORE BREAKFAST
Listen up because this is
Very important!
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I saw this on
Floreta's blog
B4 Sex?
Clink~da~ link

TOP prompt "Chores"

Written for Totally Optional Prompts - Chores

Doing the dishes
Don't you just hate washing up?
Talking of bubbles
CHORES
Talking of bubbles
Don't you just hate washing up?
Doing the dishes

Doing the dishes
Don't you just hate washing up?
TALKING OF BUBBLES
Don't you just hate washing up?
Doing the dishes

dishes
hate washing
bubbles
CHORES
bubbles
hate washing
dishes

bubbles
hate washing
DISHES
hate washing
bubbles
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Three Word Wednesday & RWP

Written for Three Word Wednesday - avenge, ramble, genuine
And posted to Read Write Poem - as I'm sure I had Tom's prompt
in mind when I wrote this nonsense...

DANGALANGDANGDERBINGBONGBANG

Just to offend you I’ll write a sonnet

A genuine all singing sort of song

der, der, der stick that under your bonnet

A capella daaaaaah, from the rooftops bong!

I know you think I’m taking a gamble

Dangalangdangderbingbongbang, I sing

Whichever way, hitch, lift, walk or ramble

Sing, song, tune up or down this clown will ring

His bell loud from dawn to dusk to Stonehenge

And everyone will know that he pretends

When he says that he’s going to avenge

Because this little song is making friends

Singasillysongabillybongo

Singalingadingafrillybongo

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Tuesday NaisaiKu.. Week Three

Written for and posted to The Naisaiku.. Challenge! - Week Three

sitting here waiting
strike while the iron's still hot?
deliberating

deliberating
strike while the iron's still hot?
sitting here waiting

sitting here waiting
strike while the iron's still hot?
DELIBERATING
strike while the iron's still hot?
sitting here waiting
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One Single Impression - Circles

Written for One Single Impression - Circles
And posted to Monday Poetry Train revisited.

Clockwise
circle round
counter

Counter
circle round
clockwise

Counter
circle round
CLOCKWISE

circle round
counter
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RWP Image prompt #11 & TOP

Written for and posted to Read Write Poem
Image prompt #11, Totally Optional Prompts
and Anthony North who's had enough NaisaiKu..

PINE NEEDLES HIS HAIR

You can’t see you, but he can

if you’ve got a speck of blue

on the screen in front of you

You can’t see him, but he can

see you, you see he’s the man

with the tree stuck on his head

You can’t see you, but he can

see you looking at him through

a pair of binoculars

You can’t see him, but he can

see you, he’s looking in the

mirror that I’m holding up

You can’t see you, but he can

he’s the man that took the snap

of me standing in the cold

You can’t see him, but he can

see you, you see he’s the man

that painted the lawn bright white

You can’t see you, but he can

see you, looking up at me

I can’t see you through this glass

You can’t see him, but he can

see you, see me, standing there

while he pine needles his hair

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3WW CXXVI

THREE WORD WEDNESDAY CXXVI
The promt words this week are: callous, interfere, persistent

...callous, persistent
interfere at your peril
HIPPOPOTAMUS
interfere at your peril
callous, persistent...
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Tuesday NaisaiKu.. Week Two

Posted to The NaisaiKu.. Challenge! - Week Two

blue soda

Cocktail Veranda

DA~DA~DA..

Veranda Cocktail

soda blue

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Monday Poetry Train Revisited & One Single Impression - Twilight

Written for Monday Poetry Train Revisited and also
posted to One Single Impression - Twilight

text from Cyberspace
back from the back of beyond
HOME BEFORE TWILIGHT
back from the back of beyond
text from Cyberspace
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txt from Cyberspace
back frm the back of beyond
home b4 twilight
TWILIGHT
home b4 twilight
back frm the back of beyond
txt from Cyberspace
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TOP prompt

Written for and posted to Totally Optional Prompts

Bluechester
Ragchester, Fanchester
Manchester
MANCHESTER
Manchester
Ragchester, Fanchester
Bluechester...
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Challenge yet?

Tuesday NaisaiKu..

Posted to The NaisaiKu.. Challenge Week One prompt:

Hot moon
I think not
Wax wane
I THINK NOT
wane wax
Not think I
Moon hot

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Hot moon I think not

Wax wane I think not wane wax

Not think I moon hot

I THINK NOT

Not think I moon hot

Wax wane I think not wane wax

Hot moon I think not

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Monday Poetry Train Revisited #15

Written for and posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited

NaisaiKu..

never say never
never say never say no
never say never
NEVER SAY NEVER SAY NO
never say never
never say never say no
never say never

never
say never
say no
SAY NEVER
say no
say never
never

never
never say
no say
NEVER SAY
no say
never say
never

never never say
no say never say no say
never say never
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One Single Impression - Spectral

Written for One Single Impression - Spectral prompt:

The Spectral Tarsier
eyes bigger than its belly,
jumps jubilantly
THE SPECTRAL TARSIER
jumps jubilantly
eyes bigger than its belly,
the Spectral Tarsier
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One Single Impression Posts:
Twilight.
Circles.
Fork.

The NaisaiKu.. Challenge!
Have you tried it yet?

Sunday Scribblings "Sports"

Written for Sunday Scribblings "Sports" prompt:

NaisaiKu..
Clink~da~link
Have you tried it yet?

Sports Day
Egg and spoon
Sack race
EGG AND SPOON
Sack race
Egg and spoon
Sports Day

Modern:
Sports Day
Egg and spoon
sack race

Old English:
Sports Day egg and spoon
Sack race egg and spoon sack race
Egg and spoon Sports Day

Friday The Thirteenth

Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited

NaisaiKu..
clink~da~link

Early sun
Friday the thirteenth
Hint of spring
FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH
Hint of spring
Friday the thirteenth
early sun
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TOP & RWP

Posted to Totally Optional Prompts and to Read Write Poem Just because I love you...

NaisaiKu..
Have you tried it yet?

I love you frantic

I wish every day could be
Saint Valentine's day
SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY
Saint Valentines day
I wish every day could be
I love you frantic
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Valentine's Day Verse Mad Kane's (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)

Written for Mad Kane's (Limerick & Haiku Prompt)
Valentine's Day Verse

Limerick:

I'll ask you for the millionth time
Will you, won't you, be my Valentine?
You know that I love you
That I'll always be true
Will you, won't you, will you please be mine?

Haiku (senryu)

Heartfelt
Valentine
be mine

NaisaiKu..
Have you tried it yet?

Heartfelt
Valentine
be mine
VALENTINE
mine be
Valentine
Heartfelt

Old English version:

Heartfelt Valentine
Be mine Valentine mine be
Valentine heartfelt
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Monday Poetry Train Revisited #14

Written for Monday Poetry Train Revisited: "Have you jumped onboard yet?"

NaisaiKu..
clink-the-link

Time won't wait
winter gravitates
towards spring
WINTER GRAVITATES
towards spring
winter gravitates
time won't wait
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Sunday Scribblings "Art"

Written for Sunday Scribblings "Art" prompt:

NaisaiKu..
Clink~my~link!

Poetry is an art
this side of bohemia
oral or mural
POETRY IS AN ART
oral or mural
this side of bohemia
poetry is an art
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NaisaiKu!

Posted to Totally Optional Prompts "Repitition" and Read Write Poem

This is a sandwich
I am the meat and two veg
I'm a slice of bread
I AM THE MEAT AND TWO VEG
I'm a slice of bread
I am the meat and two veg
This is a sandwich

***** ******* *****

I'm a jam butty
Butter and bramble jelly
Try me spread on rye
I'M A JAM BUTTY
Try me spread on rye
Butter and bramble jelly
I'm a jam butty

***** ******* *****

Two slices of bread
Bacon Lettuce Tomato
A squirt of Mayo
BACON LETTUCE TOMATO
A squirt of Mayo
Bacon Lettuce Tomato
Two slices of bread

5**** 7****** 5****

I'm a Docker's Wedge
Thick spread with flippin' drippin'
On two crusts of bread
I'M A DOCKER'S WEDGE
On two crusts of bread
Thick spread with flippin' drippin'
I'm a Docker's Wedge
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NaisaiKu devised by Wendy Naisa
Wendy Naisa is an anagram of Andy Sewina

Clink-the-link for NaisaiKu Rules and more...

Monday Poetry Train Revisited #13

Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited
NaisaiKu..

Welcome to my NaisaiKu! Post.

The following are some really bad examples
of my cyclical Haiku / Senryu style poetry:

Dancing in the street
One step two step one step back
Shake your body now
DANCING IN THE STREET
Shake your body now
One step two step one step back
Dancing in the street

***** ******* *****

Put the title here
Then write something about it
And another bit
PUT THE TITLE HERE
And another bit
Then write something about it
Put the title here

***** ******* *****

A tricycle rhyme
Thirty-nine silly-billy
On just seven lines
A TRICYCLE RHYME
On just seven lines
Thirty-nine silly-billy
A tricycle rhyme

***** ******* *****

A February snow
Summer to look forward to
A sprinkling of spring
SUMMER TO LOOK FORWARD TO
A sprinkling of spring
Summer to look forward to
A February snow

***** ******* *****

Read a little write
If you can write you can read
Write on, right on, read!
IF YOU CAN WRITE YOU CAN READ
Write on, right on, read!
If you can write you can read
Read a little write

***** ******* *****

Andy no candy
No cakes for Andy Pandy
The cat got the cream
ANDY NO CANDY
The cat got the cream
No cakes for Andy Pandy
Andy no candy

***** ******* *****

Far across the sea
Floating on the summer tide
Driftwood ocean trip
FAR ACROSS THE SEA
Driftwood ocean trip
Floating on the summer tide
Far across the sea

***** ******* *****

The heat of the day
Sunup morn noon sundown soon
Cold night I don’t like
SUNUP MORN NOON SUNDOWN SOON
Cold night I don’t like
Sunup morn noon sundown soon
The heat of the day

***** ******* *****
THE RULES FOR
NaisaiKu..

www.naisaiku.blogspot.com
All you do is write a Haiku style poem of five, seven, five syllables
then re-enter the first line as the central TITLE
then reverse the cycle so line 5 reads the same as line 3
line 6 reads the same as line 2
and finally line 7 should be the same as line 1 and line 4.
And that’s about it!

So you should end up with seven lines and 39 syllables.

Just to make things more complicated there's also a forty-one syllable NaisaiKu
where the second line is repeated as the TITLE, in some ways this seems the more logical way to go as the piece then can be read as three seperate Haiku, almost...

Here's an example of a 41 syllable NaisaiKu which is also known as a Cycliku!

it don't have to rhyme
forty-one silly-billy
on just a few lines
FORTY-ONE SILLY-BILLY
on just a few lines
forty-one silly-billy
it don't have to rhyme


You can make Just for fun NaisaiKu.. rhyme or not.

Finally, you can of course use the third line as the TITLE if you need to emphasise something like this, perhaps:

Shout out, shout it out!
SHOUT OUT, SHOUT IT OUT!
Shout out, shout it out!

The rules are so simple that there's hardly any rules at all.
You could even convert
an existing Haiku style poem into this one if you so wish.

Just a bit of fun!

Andy Sewina

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If and when you do write one, please leave a link to your post

in the comments on this post so others can enjoy your work too!

Sunday Scribblings - "Regrets"

Written for the Sunday Scribblings prompt "Regrets"
CROCS
Here we go Walter (the Jib) Gibraltar
every back street in the book (and Ancoats)
to tear your hair out just to get you hooked
some of the things those Jibbers say and do

The way they look the way they stare at you
snarl and growl ensnare you with their patter
flash twenty - land of plenty - give you five
mesmerise you with Crocodile skin shoes

Does the Jib in a strange town about noon
walks into a bar measures the fireplace
scribbles on the clipboard under his arm
National Fire Inspector he tells them

What can I do you for? asks the Landlord.
Thank you very much, I’ll have a pint please!
he downs it in one and heads for the door
has it on his toes to the next bolthole

Looks for an easy Mark turns him over
then it’s the same script in the pub next door
and on until the Blues arrive in town
then it’s Jib on Jib think and drink ‘em dry

Russian Roulette too late for last requests
breathe you live - don’t you die - there’s no regrets
and if he asks you poker faced to play
check if he’s wearing Crocs don’t cut the deck
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TOP prompt "Intersections" & RWP prompt "Sestina"

Written for the 'Sestina' prompt at ReadWritePoem and inspired by
TotallyOptionalPrompts 'Intersections' (banana/pyjama) prompt.

ANDY SEWINA

They said I’ve got to write a sestina
I said my name is Andy Sewina
Would you like a bite of my banana
How long till you get some new pyjama
Is that a felt hat or a fedora
Did you sail into the new marina

I once met a mermaid called Marina
I thought I’d tell you in this sestina
That I always wear an old fedora
She said is your name Andy Sewina
Lemontina do you wear pyjama
Oh but please please don’t drive me banana

Joey likes to eat yellow banana
When he pedalo to the marina
Everybody loves his blue pyjama
When he goes siesta with sestina
He dreams that he is Andy Sewina
Wearing a big coat and a fedora

You really can’t ignore a fedora
Even a squishy squashy banana
Won’t make you into Andy Sewina
So don’t go try to swim the marina
Who said it’s complicated sestina
It’s so easy peasey in pyjama

Do the drama school supply pyjama
I’ll bring a pair under my fedora
It’s time for us to sing my sestina
Ba ba ba bana bana banana
Ma ma ma mamma ma ma marina
Yeah lemontina Andy Sewina

Dance like fiesta Andy Sewina
Do Sucu sucu Cuba pyjama
Discotina down to the marina
Don’t forget to don your old fedora
Ba ba ba bana bana banana
Singer ringer dinger my sestina

Dreamer dreamer sestina pyjama
Andy Sewina with his fedora
Slip don’t trip banana skin marina

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TOP prompt "Ceremonies"

Written for Totally Optional Prompts "Ceremonies"

Welcome to the snow
Slipping sliding such and such
Revolution woes

The crowd gathered in the square
Taste the anticipation

The white stuff still falls
Wetting the curious mob
Merges with their sweat

A boy sells them some stale bread
They wash it down with cheap wine

Then a bugle blows
Soldiers dismount from horses
The prisoner comes

Hail the executioner
Voluminous crescendo

Up goes the sharp blade
Down slicing the mans head off
The jeering mob cheer

The snow mixes with fresh blood
Runs between the cobblestones

Still the crowd want more
Encore encore they cry out
The bayonets are fixed

Angry soldiers face the crowd
Itching to kill the rabble

Blood demands more blood
A dog is dragged to the stage
Someone cuts its throat

The crowd don’t want to go home
Urine permeates the square

The snow turns to rain
The drenched mob are drunk on wine
The wet soldiers curse

The baker runs out of bread
A barrel of cheap wine flows

Vive la republic
Chant the disorganised mob
The soldiers attack

A La Guillotine they cry
Let them eat cake she replies

Blood and puke and puss
A ceremony of sorts
Madness gone insane
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PROPER JOE'S: Carry on regardless...

PROPER JOE'S: Carry on regardless...

Monday Poetry Train Revisited #11

Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited :
@ PIER HEAD
By the Mersey
yesterday
a carry out
to take away
cold night
corpse sleeps
newsprint blanket
cardboard cot
drunken dreamer
destitute
old at twenty
friend of mine
Frankie Vine
found dead
@ Pier Head.
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As submitted to Liverpool's Poem800 at: www.poem800.com

Sunday Scribblings "Pilgrimage"

Written for Sunday Scribblings Pilgrimage prompt:

PILGRIMAGE
Down memory lane
I could take a pilgrimage
to be ten again...
Oh de bar' skins all day long
and Illya Kuryakin!
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Oh de bar' skins explanation HERE

For: TotallyOptionalPrompts and ReadWritePoem

Not necessarily written to the prompts but definitely inspired by this weeks
Read Write Poem and Totally Optional Prompts

LIMEY'S BLIMEY!
Barmy Blarney
Cockney Mockney
Paddy Daffy Mick and Jock.

Scouse
Mancs
Yorks
Lancs
Brummie
Geordie

Jolly Woolly
Rusky's Yanks.
Paupers Punters Guns and Tanks.

Yonkers Bonkers
Nerdy's Plonkers
Astro Cosmo...
Limey's?
Blimey!
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Monday Poetry Train Revisited #10

Written for my son Jack Batty Sewina
and previously published in my collection
Proper Trog and Other Nursery Nonsense
copyright Andy Sewina aka Daddy Wise (c) 1993
Posted to Monday Poetry Train Revisited

BRUNCH
Little Jack Batty sat on a tatty
eating his ploughmans lunch
with his breakfast all done
and his dinner to come
and said what a nice bit of brunch!
PT1993