Pre-NaPoWriMo..

LIKE
I wrote a quick line for Mad Kane
It's not rock 'n' roll its just plain
A Limerick no
You're mad to think so
So, Like, if you think it's insane
26032013

NaPoWriMo 2013

Introduction
NaPoWriMo 2013

It will soon be April and that means it's NaPoWriMo time again. The idea is to write thirty poems in 30 days, and this will be my fifth year.

You can read my entries from 2009, 10, 11, and 2012 by scrolling down the right hand sidebar on this page and clicking the links.

If you would like to have a go this year, you can sign up at Maureen's site here. Otherwise check out some of the other participants here.

Sanctification

TIC-TAC SINFONIA

To take us there back to infinity
Ice creams even now contaminated
Choices are for us to make and to take
Trumpeting heralding like a third eye
Areal to the universe bar none
Contamination damnation et al

Stupid as it all seems, my dreams are real
Infinity sucks, says the, Sofa King
Nonsensical to those chosen to choose
Fukushima used to be oh so nice
Only the lonely understand me now
No way, no one else could be so stupid
I want them to go away, if only…
All my dreams are like this now, they’re so true.

26022012

SANCTIFICATION
(REVEALED)

Stupid as it all seems, my dreams are real
Areal to the universe bar none
Nonsensical to those chosen to choose
Choices are for us to make and to take
To take us there, back to infinity
Infinity sucks, says the, Sofa King
Fukushima used to be oh so nice
Ice creams even now contaminated
Contamination damnation et al
All my dreams are like this now, they’re so true
Trumpeting heralding like a third eye
I want them to go away, if only…
Only the lonely understand me now
No way, no one else could be so stupid.

04022013

Posted to dVerse Poets

WITH DANDELION JAM

He plucks 

shards from star-parts

as meteorites whiz by.

Desperate as 

a troglodyte

she force feeds the baby

with dandelion jam.

Loony as 

the man on the moon

they wait patiently  

for the 

next space shuttle

to whisk them back to earth.

07012013

Posted to dVerse poets

Like Modigliani

THE WAY SHE WAS

I must be patient now the way she was

for all those years sitting there in that chair

waiting for me to fix something for her

wanting to dictate a chapter to me

Sitting there imprisoned in that mad place

I knew she wanted me to take her home

waiting for me to read about Gauguin

wanting to paint like Modigliani

I’m the patient now sitting on the ward

waiting for the nurse to extract some blood

wanting the doctor to say that I'm fixed

I must be patient now the way she was

29012013

Posted to dVerse poets for Open Link Night

Sally's Farm

SALLY'S FARM

My dreams pile up like oranges
waiting to be unpeeled
layer after layer dangling like threads
enticing as a spiders web

Sally wants to measure everything
paint the whole house white
clean every nook and cranny
the list is endless

Falling down the stairs yesterday
I came here to get well again
but she's got me baking bread
and cleaning out the chicken coop

If you don't work you don't eat said Sally
choking on a piece of wholemeal rye
(like she feeds me anyway she just waits
for the van like my other carer did)

Sometimes the sun seems to go backwards
left to right instead of the other way
like the meds she forces down my red lane
making me and the front room turn blue

The television is monotonous
an incessant rattle in the corner
but that's the only decent company I'll get
until the meals on wheels lady arrives

24012013

My name is Amundsen

YOU LOOK A BIT SWEDISH

(I BET IT'S COLD UP THERE) 

If I looked the way he did you'd say 

You look a bit Swedish I bet it's cold up there

I'd reply the sauna's okay come on in

Afterwards when the snow starts to melt

we'll talk about the weather

you'll try to forget that my name is Amundsen

and ask me (like I'm a chocolate wristwatch) 

have you always lived in Switzerland

17012013

I'm back

FOOTPRINTS

walking barefoot

footprints on the moon

little green men

hovering towards me

the footprints were mine

walking in circles blind

the green men were Martians

they thought that I was

the man on the moon

04122012

Nowhere...

NOWHERE

Now here

Now here Now-

here now

12062012

Into the darkness...

INTO THE DARKNESS

flying through rain clouds making up stories

dealing with satan screaming like bedlam

thinly veiled madness finite as jelly

bouncing like atoms crashing and thrashing

nightmares recurring shouting at demons

fighting with devils escaping from hell

black cats and broomsticks swinging from lamp posts

swearing at Jesus and killing herself

writing on raw flesh with needles and ink

scratching her eyes out ladies in waiting

surfing on rainbows looking for lovers

eating for England hating the weather

08062012

Please note:
The above is the first part of a much longer piece that 
will be aired on my Dream Genie bloggage very soon.

Three Word Wednesday CCLXXI

3WW
Dampen
Keep
Tremble

Here's mine:

POETIC FLASH FICTION IN 51 SYLLABLES
He begins to tremble as he asks his god for forgiveness again.He dampens it down, turning his thoughts into words as he starts to pray. The deeper he digs the more clues he keeps on finding, don't tell the judge. 09052012/1

DON'T TELL 

THE JUDGE

The deeper we dig 

the more clues we 

keep on finding, 

don't tell the judge.

They dampen it down 

turning their thoughts into 

words, as they start to pray

he begins to tremble 

as he asks his god 

for forgiveness again.

09052012

Conclusion

NaPoWriMo 2012

CONCLUSION

Phew, another hectic April, and my fourth NaPoWriMo completed. This year I choose not to link my posts to the prompt sites daily, because I knew that I wouldn't have the time to read and comment on everybody else's work. As a result of this action, the amount of people reading and commenting on my work dwindled too.
TAKING PART
There were a few days when I managed to link to the prompt sites and this did result in more hits to SweetTalkingGuy. The bottom line in all this of course is the taking part, and the conclusion is here on this blog as a record for all to read.
TRIOLET
I did a few versions of the triolet form on different days, the idea for this coming from an early prompt on Maureen Thorsen's NaPoWriMo site. This was a new form to me, it was simple as far as the rules go, but difficult to get right. I think the secret is in getting a good first sentence which is strong enough to be repeated in the fourth and seventh lines. Anyway, I enjoyed writing them.

FLAME THROWER

This time last year I was enthusing about the FlameThrower form, and I gave some examples of this style in the 2011 conclusion which you can click to at the bottom of this post.

EXPERIMENT

This year on Day Twenty-Four of the challenge (to write thirty poems in thirty days) I went a bit crazy and wrote an experimental poem with the title Experiment, I set it out as an acrostic piece and I used words beginning with E for the first line, then words starting with X for the second line, etc. I then shuffled the experiment letters up and made thirty-six different anagrams of the acrostic word like Extreme Nip, Mine Expert, and Tex Pier Men. You can read the result here.

FINALLY

Congratulations to everyone who took part in this years NaPoWriMo, you deserve a virtual pat on the back. So until next April, may I take this opportunity to say Happy NaPoWriMo!!!

Here's my Conclusion from NaPoWriMo 2011

Day Thirty

NaPoWriMo 2012

WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD

Win draw lose nothing changes we're the blues
The blues are out to get you watch your back
Back off roll over lie still and shut up
Upstairs in the counting house they will win.


Welcome to the lions den uni-ted
uni-ted were once the big noise round here
here there and everywhere the biggest club
the biggest club in the world you're welcome.


If like me you're off to see the wizard
wise up and get behind the richest club
the richest club in the world v the rest
rest assured we'll see this time only if...

The poor will  be last the last will be poor
Pour yourself a stiff drink unite the poor.
30042012

Here's my Day Thirty from 2011

Day Twenty-Nine

NaPoWriMo 2012

THE THOUGHT POLICE
The thought police are patrolling the streets
of the minds of those who only want peace
They tell us we've got to go with the flow
to conform ourselves to the status quo
They coerce and beg us arm and leg us
earwig this one if we don't  like that one
They call themselves the national thinkers
but we can see that they're wearing blinkers
The thought police are patrolling the streets
of the minds of those who only want peace
They tell us we've got to go with the flow
to conform ourselves to the status quo
They coerce and beg us arm and leg us
earwig this one if we don't  like that one
They call themselves the national thinkers
but we can see that they're wearing blinkers
They're trying to control the way we think
police not really we just thought they were
29042012

Here's my Day Twenty-Nine from 2011

Day Twenty-Eight

NaPoWriMo 2012

FIFTEEN MINUTES AGO

fifteen minutes ago

it was nineteen-thirty-seven

treading the boards on Broadway

in the golden age of the stage 

for the audience it was heaven

but down below in the pits

it was work as hard as hell

 that was theatrical magic

fifteen minutes ago

28042012

Here's my Day Twenty-Eight from 2011

Day Twenty-Seven

NaPoWriMo 2012

NOBODY CARES
nobody cares they say they do they don't
don't you know that no man is an island
is land what it's all about I doubt it
tit for tat and all that which way is south
southern cemetery dying on its feet
foot loose and fancy free they're mad for it
made for it even queuing for tickets
four tickets cost a months wages these days
these days it's standing room only for us
usually on the train or on the bus
business is business in another world
world without end amen nobody cares
27042012

Here's my Day Twenty-Seven from 2011

Day Twenty-Six

NaPoWriMo 2012

The April Heights - Day 26 - #138 - MELODY

Here's mine:

MELODY

Much like her namesake

She has a wonderful voice

When Melody sings

26042012

Here's my Day Twenty-Six from 2011

Day Twenty-Five - 3WW CCLXIX

NaPoWriMo 2012

3WW
Kinky
Bloody
Tender

Here's mine:

LITTLE MINX

Butter wouldn't melt

At such a tender age too

She's bloody kinky

25042012

 Here's my Day Twenty-Five from 2011

 

Day Twenty-Four

NaPoWriMo 2012

EXPERIMENT

experiential experimental

xenogenetic xylobalsamum

pyramidical putrification

existentialist extrovert exes

rationalising realisation

informational infatuation

mugs merely making more mucking money

expansionism examination

neomorphic neuropsychology

tree talking tactical topiary

24042012

 MINE EXPERT

 mugs merely making more mucking money

informational infatuation
neomorphic neuropsychology
existentialist extrovert exes

experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
 pyramidical putrification

expansionism examination

rationalising realisation
tree talking tactical topiary
24042012/1

EXTREME NIP 
expansionism examination
 xenogenetic xylobalsamum

tree talking tactical topiary

rationalising realisation
experiential experimental
 mugs merely making more mucking money
 existentialist extrovert exes

neomorphic neuropsychology
informational infatuation
 pyramidical putrification
24042012/2

ERIN EXEMPT

existentialist extrovert exes

rationalising realisation

informational infatuation
neomorphic neuropsychology

expansionism examination
 xenogenetic xylobalsamum
 experiential experimental
 mugs merely making more mucking money
pyramidical putrification
tree talking tactical topiary
24042012/3

NEXT EMPIRE
neomorphic neuropsychology
expansionism examination
 xenogenetic xylobalsamum
 tree talking tactical topiary

existentialist extrovert exes
 mugs merely making more mucking money
pyramidical putrification
 informational infatuation
rationalising realisation
experiential experimental
24042012/4

PRE-TEEN MIX

pyramidical putrification
 rationalising realisation
experiential experimental

 tree talking tactical topiary
 existentialist extrovert exes
expansionism examination
neomorphic neuropsychology

 mugs merely making more mucking money
 informational infatuation
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
24042012/5

INEXPERT ME

 informational infatuation
neomorphic neuropsychology
experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes 
rationalising realisation
tree talking tactical topiary

mugs merely making more mucking money
expansionism examination
24042012/6 

EX-TRIPE MEN
 experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum

 tree talking tactical topiary
rationalising realisation
informational infatuation
pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes 

mugs merely making more mucking money
expansionism examination
neomorphic neuropsychology
24042012/7

PENTE REMIX
pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes 
neomorphic neuropsychology
tree talking tactical topiary
experiential experimental


rationalising realisation
expansionism examination
mugs merely making more mucking money
 informational infatuation
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
24042012/8

 MEN PER EXIT
 mugs merely making more mucking money
experiential experimental
neomorphic neuropsychology

pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes
rationalising realisation

expansionism examination
 xenogenetic xylobalsamum
informational infatuation
 tree talking tactical topiary
24042012/9

eMIX REPENT

experiential experimental
 mugs merely making more mucking money
 informational infatuation
xenogenetic xylobalsamum

 rationalising realisation
expansionism examination
 pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes
neomorphic neuropsychology
 tree talking tactical topiary
24042012/10

ME PRE-XENIT
mugs merely making more mucking money
existentialist extrovert exes

 pyramidical putrification
rationalising realisation
experiential experimental

xenogenetic xylobalsamum
expansionism examination
neomorphic neuropsychology
informational infatuation
 tree talking tactical topiary
24042012/11

ERE TEN P MIX
expansionism examination
rationalising realisation
experiential experimental

tree talking tactical topiary 
existentialist extrovert exes
neomorphic neuropsychology

pyramidical putrification

 mugs merely making more mucking money
 informational infatuation
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
24042012/12

I MET REX PEN
 informational infatuation

 mugs merely making more mucking money
expansionism examination
tree talking tactical topiary

rationalising realisation
experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum

pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes
neomorphic neuropsychology
24042012/12A 

EXEN PERMIT
experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
expansionism examination
neomorphic neuropsychology

pyramidical putrification
existentialist extrovert exes
rationalising realisation
mugs merely making more mucking money
informational infatuation 
 tree talking tactical topiary

24042012/14

TEX PIER MEN

tree talking tactical topiary

experiential experimental

xenogenetic xylobalsamum

pyramidical putrification

informational infatuation

existentialist extrovert exes

rationalising realisation

mugs merely making more mucking money

expansionism examination

neomorphic neuropsychology

24042012/15

TIMEX PREEN
 tree talking tactical topiary

informational infatuation

mugs merely making more mucking money

expansionism examination

xenogenetic xylobalsamum

pyramidical putrification

rationalising realisation

existentialist extrovert exes
experiential experimental
neomorphic neuropsychology
24042012/16 

MEN RE TIPEX

mugs merely making more mucking money

expansionism examination
 neomorphic neuropsychology

 rationalising realisation
existentialist extrovert exes

tree talking tactical topiary

informational infatuation

pyramidical putrification
experiential experimental 

xenogenetic xylobalsamum
24042012/17

 RENT MEX PIE
 rationalising realisation
existentialist extrovert exes
neomorphic neuropsychology
tree talking tactical topiary

mugs merely making more mucking money
expansionism examination
xenogenetic xylobalsamum


pyramidical putrification
informational infatuation

experiential experimental

24042012/18

ME NEXT PIER
mugs merely making more mucking money 

existentialist extrovert exes

 neomorphic neuropsychology
experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum
 tree talking tactical topiary

  pyramidical putrification
informational infatuation

expansionism examination

 rationalising realisation

 24042012/19

 PINE EX-TERM
pyramidical putrification
informational infatuation neomorphic neuropsychology
 neomorphic neuropsychology
 expansionism examination

experiential experimental
xenogenetic xylobalsamum

 tree talking tactical topiary
existentialist extrovert exes
rationalising realisation
mugs merely making more mucking money
24042012/20

 MIX PEE TERN 
mugs merely making more mucking money
informational infatuation 

xenogenetic xylobalsamum


pyramidical putrification
experiential experimental
existentialist extrovert exes  

 tree talking tactical topiary
expansionism examination
rationalising realisation
neomorphic neuropsychology
24042012/21

PRIM EX-TEEN
pyramidical putrification
rationalising realisation
informational infatuation 
mugs merely making more mucking money

expansionism examination
xenogenetic xylobalsamum

tree talking tactical topiary
existentialist extrovert exes
experiential experimental
neomorphic neuropsychology 

24042012/22

NET EX PRIME
neomorphic neuropsychology
expansionism examination
 tree talking tactical topiary

existentialist extrovert exes
xenogenetic xylobalsamum


pyramidical putrification
rationalising realisation
informational infatuation 
mugs merely making more mucking money
experiential experimental
24042012/23

 MINX PER TEE
mugs merely making more mucking money
informational infatuation
neomorphic neuropsychology
xenogenetic xylobalsamum


pyramidical putrification
experiential experimental
rationalising realisation

 tree talking tactical topiary
expansionism examination
existentialist extrovert exes
24042012/24


PIX 'N ME TREE
pyramidical putrification
informational infatuation
xenogenetic xylobalsamum

neomorphic neuropsychology 

mugs merely making more mucking money
experiential experimental

tree talking tactical topiary
rationalising realisation
existentialist extrovert exes
 expansionism examination
24042012/25


 MINT EX-PEER

PREX EN TIME 

EX PERM NITE

ME NIX RE PET 

MERE EX PINT 

PRIX TEE MEN

METE EN PRIX 

TIER MEN PEX 

PINE 'EM T-REX

RIM NEXT PEE

EX-NET ME R.I.P.

 

 Here's my Day Twenty-Four from 2011

Day Twenty-Three

NaPoWriMo 2012

ALMOST SINGING

The genius within 

goes to work, 

searching sifting, 

fishing in the gene pool.

Fixing things you wouldn't

know were broken.

There's a whole 

multi-verse in there

waiting to be explored.

I examine it myself

unlocking the gates 

with a magic key

and stepping inside, 

repeating the code

over and over, 

think of Month 6o, think. 

I think, I think I think 

of Month 60, what is it?

I whisper to myself, diving

deeper and deeper within.

The most amazing thing

is the sound, 

whistling,

screeching, 

thudding, 

almost singing.

It sounds like womb music

and it's eternal, as much as

it pre-dates time...

Whistling!

screeching!!

thudding!!!

Almost singing.

23042012

Here's my Day Twenty-Three from 2011

Check this one too, Batman and Alice from 2010

Day Twenty-Two

NaPoWriMo 2012

The prompt today at Sunday Scribblings is Marathon.

Here's mine:

FOR WILSON KIPSANG
Happiness is such a wonderful thing
singing like Wilson Kipsang when he won
in two hours four minutes and something.

Happiness is such a wonderful thing
all the adulation and the gold bling
for running in the London Marathon.

Happiness is such a wonderful thing
singing like Wilson Kipsang when he won.
22042012

Here's my day Twenty-Two from 2011

Day Twenty-One

NaPoWriMo 2012

AGREE WITH ME
If only you would believe that I'm cured.
Whenever two people agree, it's done!
Agree with me and my future's secured

If only you would believe that I'm cured
then I could say that I'm really assured
and get on with my life and have some fun.

If only you would believe that I'm cured.
Whatever two people agree, is done!
21042012

Here's my Day Twenty-One from 2011

Day Twenty

NaPoWriMo 2012

ANYTHING WHATEVER
I just want you to talk to me
Tell me anything whatever
To break these chains and set me free
I just want you to talk to me
You look so dark and dastardly
It could be about the weather
I just want you to talk to me
Tell me anything whatever
20042012

Here's my Day Twenty from 2011

Day Nineteen

NaPowriMo 2012

IT'S COMING

mixed emotions
floating drifting
from this to that
and back again
thataway thisway
which way why
round and round
in circles confused
who do you listen to right now

all of a sudden it's coming
you have to decide in a flash

thataway thisway
which way why
round and round
in circles confused
who do you listen to right now
mixed emotions
floating drifting
from this to that
and back again
19042012

Here's my Day Nineteen from 2011

Day Eighteen

NaPoWriMo 2012

SUDOKU

Pro's and Cons
Poetic numbers
Concise prose

18042012

Here's my Day Eighteen from 2011

Day Seventeen

NaPoWriMo 2012

The Meaning of Life as prompted by Sheila Heard.

THE MEANING OF LIFE
What's
the
point
of
thinking
you
know
it
all
when
you
don't
know
anything?
They look perplexed
when you question the way
that they think things should be done.
To them, the powers that be,
everything is a foregone conclusion.

What they say is right and proper
and thinking otherwise is taboo.
They're always right
and you're always wrong
and that's the way they think things go.
How do you change the way that things happen,
who's controlling who, these days?

He waited for the results of his scan,
believing that he was cured.
But the doctor told him no,
an operation was the way to go.
So where did that leave him
and his simple belief in psychology?

What will his next step be,
which way will he leap?
they
say
sheep
follow
sheep.
What would you do if it happened to you?
and whoose voice would you follow?
He waits for sleep to overtake
and his sub-conscious to enlighten.
17042012

Here's my Day Seventeen from 2011

Day Sixteen

NaPoWriMo 2012

WHAT'S NEW?

mars marsians
little green moonsters
where on earth

16042012

Here's my Day Sixteen from 2011

Day Fifteen

NaPoWriMo 2012

VIVE LA DIFFERENCE
The difference a day can make
bake a cake three points if we win
Winners and losers what's the score
scorn if they lose win we will sing

Singles doubles and treble top
top of the morning to you too
two four six eight etcetera
etcetera and er so forth

Fourth place in the Grand National
national anthem takes seconds
second in the Premiership
premium blues win away day

Daydreaming of coming on top
topping out Vive la difference
15042012

Here's my Day Fifteen from 2011

Day Fourteen

NaPoWriMo 2012

FEEL THE PAIN
Just when you think it's gone funky
it all starts to flare up again
from one spark they planted monkey

Just when you think it's gone funky
they want to control you junky
kick the habit and feel the pain

Just when you think it's gone funky
it all starts to flare up again
14042012

Here's my Day Fourteen from 2011

Day Thirteen

NaPoWriMo 2012

THE~DEE~EYE~WHY~SAGE
They say technology's a backward step
one step forward two steps sideways perhaps
all those gadgets are okay for robots
draw a line about nineteen-sixty-nine
Luddites and Troglodytes need not apply.

Touch wood and stroke your lucky rabbits foot
it's Friday the thirteenth in a leap year
don't look in the mirror in case it breaks
ladders and roofs can wait till tomorrow.

Here in the age of the~dee~eye~why~sage
we still depend on electricity
whatever happened to the simple life
yurt living cooking on an open range
let's head off to the woods and start a fire.
13042012

Here's my Day Thirteen from 2011

Day Twelve

NaPoWriMo 2012

Here's an upside down thingy:

Things are never quite
they're either this or
lovers are like
just when you
everything turns
INSIDE OUT
Black and white
that or the other
that too
think it's all over
upside down
12042012

Here's my Day Twelve from 2011

Day Eleven - 3WW CCLXVII

NaPoWriMo 2012

3WW

Draft
Locate
Serenity

Here's mine:

WWWDOTBLOGDOTCOM
Waiting window watching draft
Locate writing working wrestling
Wicked Word Wednesday.com
River Wabash Winnebago Weaver
Wretchedly wriggly wrinkly serenity
11042012

Here's my Day Eleven from 2011

Day Ten

NaPoWriMo 2012

SHE'S THE GENIUS
Sometimes she looks so young
like that girl in the photograph
in the bottom of the drawer
that she can't see.
Then there's those days when
she looks like a pre-war Victorian
eighty-odd in ninteen thirty-nine.
She trusts us to do everything for her
and she tells us exactly what to do
she writes the menus we cook the meals.
She's the genius like it or not
and she always knows best.
When she shouts we run
if we walk it could be too late...
10042012

Here's my Day Ten from 2011

Day Nine

NaPoWriMo 2012

Here's mine:

EASTER EGGS
Fascinated by the things that we learn
Learning to love life again and again
And again things are different there's much
Much more to think about than Easter eggs
Egocentric as that may sound it's true

Truth then lies and more lies they really hurt
Hurting the bone and marrow from the rear
Rearing up towards that operation
Operate on someone else I won't wait
Waiting rooms are just for emergency
Emergency ward ten on a re-run
Running out of space I'm fascinated
09042012

Here's my Day Nine from 2011

Day Eight

NaPoWriMo 2012

The prompt at Haiku Heights is: Play

Here's mine:

PLAY

If we win we win
When we play Football it's war
If we lose they lose

08042012

Here's my Day Eight from 2011