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A Picture Poem for Spring...

4/17/2014

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And, I am officially behind!

4/11/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day eight is late, but such is fate!

I did a week - a full week! - and then..... Playing catch-up:( No pressure; it's all good:) I do have a bunch of partially written poems, though.

This poem is a variation on the Oulipost prompt from day 9, which I did for my Day 8 poem, thereby making it a day early:) Ha! Instead of newspaper, I used the flyers...

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Hope Floats Anyway

4/7/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 7:

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Hope Floats Anyway

Afloat, afar and away -

an angry balloon bursts,

Coasting clearly down,

doomed.

Evil eats Everything & erodes, entering efficiently even when I

Fight for freedom from forces forever favouring the favoured, flavoured with fortunate fate.

The fight gets going & I'm greeted by grey ghosts gathering graciously in hopeful homes inhabited happily & hungrily by hideous heroes who hear holiness in idiots & ingrates, incessantly judging,

joining in Kindred kahoots.

We long for love lost,

Mourn for mornings of memories; of misty maybes through a mostly murky mayhaim of mindless,

Non-existent nonsense - Nevermind.

Nobody knows.

Others Only over-obsess obnoxiously, otherwise

Poor pretty perfect people possibly

Questioning -quos; Quasimodo

Rock stars sailing & soaring atop, too tall towers.

Terrible tragedies & truths torment us.

Understanding unites

Vastly varied

Wisdom-seekers wandering willfully

Extracting & exuding extra-hope, yakking & yapping, yelling & yawning, the yea-Sayers of yesterday have

Zilch.

#TinkerSketch prompt was clouds. It was challenging to write my poem, today. I just played around with alliteration & the alphabet -- ooh, an Abecedarian Alliteration Attempt! -- hey, it counts for a full week:)

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Little Minions

4/7/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 6 (Apr. 6, 2014)

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Little minions all the same 
do this do that play the game
All my bidding shall be done
Go here go there run run run
One eye big and two eyes small
Either will do when you're not very tall
Hey there minion, what's with your pants?
They're different than the rest of the ants'!
Little blue polkadots... wait! what? polkadots?
You can't be you when I'm calling the shots!
You shall color your pants solid
like every other Sam and Sid


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The Story Behind the Poem:
#TinkerSketch Prompt was Polka Dots and I saw this lovely image on FaceBook, and made a protocol with toilet paper tubes, which is as fine as any method for using up the rolls!  And then, whilst eating a Kinder Egg, inspiration struck, thus the result being better than the actual toy:)

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I can't believe it's been 20 years!

4/5/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 5:

Kurt Cobain's Lie:

Oh, Daddy, I wonder if IT'S
the way it is, and not BETTER
because you were afraid TO
let your past BURN
free and let your own child OUT...
Would you have been freer THAN
you ever were TO
be loved? Your barely visible image continues to FADE.
My world would have been better if you hadn't gone AWAY.
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Today, I thought I'd give an actual Poetry prompt a go and it went...
NaPoWriMo Prompt: Today I challenge you to write a “golden shovel.” This form was invented by Terrance Hayes in his poem, The Golden Shovel. The last word of each line of Hayes’ poem is a word from Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem We Real Cool. You can read Brooks’ poem by reading the last word of each line of Hayes’ poem! (In fact, you can do so twice, because Hayes, being ultra-ambitious, wrote a two-part golden shovel, repeating Brooks’ poem). Now, the golden shovel is a tricky form, but you can help keep it manageable by picking a short poem to shovel-ize.
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#TinkerSketch Challenge --> collage

Extra Bonus Poem (Yesterday's Prompt, a Lune, which is a form of the Haiku - 3 words, 5 words, 3 words):

Eensy peensey pieces
cut out from a magazine, 
What'll it be?

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An Ultimate recent past Collage project;)
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When the explanation about the poem's origins are longer than the poem itself....

4/4/2014

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NaPoWriMo2014, ,Day 4:

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How this Poem came to be: #TinkerSketch prompt was Aluminium Foil.  So, I drew on the foil with my Poster Paint Crayon Sticks.  I tried to draw my cat, but I ended up drawing a fox.  Then I remembered the Oulipost Blog Prompt, Day #3, which was to pick a sentence from a newspaper article, and replace each significant word with its dictionary definition. (I choose the book, based on the viral You Tube video, What Does the Fox Say? and this is what I got! - Yeah!

Unrequited Love, Reciprocated

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Imposing sad colour of the clear sky,
Scrutinizing judgment,
    pretentious and of Great Importance.
          Magnanimous, even.
The part that beats and the part that breathes senses you near reach, 
Pursuing earnestly, seeking persistently, 
with the intention of a silver fox alluring his mademoiselle.  

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Everything but the Poem

4/3/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 3:

#TinkerSketch Prompt --> Draw to Music
SO I played a little Dittie on My Beautiful Piano (simply because I couldn't decide what music I wanted to draw to)....
https://soundcloud.com/nikki-schneider/la-doodle-song
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Creativity Charm

Make some music make some noise
Forget about neighbours forget about poise
Blow a whistle bang a drum
Guitar or ukulele go ahead, strum

Get up and dance move your dancing feet
It's all good says Blue Cat Pete!
Move like a kid give it a whirl 
Skip, hop or even twirl

Get some paper any will do
Even an old receipt that you already threw
The sky's the limit get out your pens,
Crayons can give your soul a cleanse
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Shine - A Poem, a Doodle & some PhotoPlay...

4/3/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 2:

I think I will base my poems on my doodles & sketches from @Tinkerlab's Instagram Doodle-a-Day Challenge.  I also incorporated @Idearoom's Instagram Photo-a-Day prompt.  Things just sort of come together.  Today, I read a story to some Kindergarten kids & there was an owl in it.  I also did some yoga with 1/2's & we were trees.  Then we danced. Oh, how we danced! (It's called DPA, Daily Physical Activity.)  
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Doodle-a-day #tinkersketch prompt --> White on Black (Materials used: Black poster paint crayon, white-out, crayon, and yellow poster paint crayon stick.)

Shine

Ta wit ta woo, ta wit ta wee
I wonder what is looking at me?
The night is black.
There's no going back. 
I hear strange stuff,
I've had enough.

But which way to go?

Whooooo! 
Who's there?
Whooooo!
Whoooo whoooooo?

No one
Just me &
A billion glowing eyes flickering 

A clearer picture now,
eyes adjust - theirs on me, not mine -
in the moonlight I can clearly make out invisible beasts, 
lined 
up, 
in 
wait, 

waiting for me to let go of my guard and get me - as if!

Boo! says something.
Woo! says another.

Okay, I say, 
I'll do it that way:
I'll hoot & howl, 
Boogie & Woogie.

Not afraid, see! 
Oh, no, not me!
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Close-up: Owl in the Night
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Close-up: Moon so Bright
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Close-up: Eyes of Fright

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Idearoom's Instagram Photo-a-Day Challenge Prompt --> Shine Good Morning, Dundas! - Original Photo
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PhotoPlay! - Good Morning, Dundas! all flipped and repeated...
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Then, used as a border for my Doodle Art, PhotoPlay-ed!

I LOVE THE ARTS:)

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I wrote "Dance of Life" whilst dancing through life, today....

4/1/2014

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NaPoWriMo, Day 1:

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The story of my poem:

Last night, I watched, 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.' (* a Super Cool show - see bottom for more about this.)  Today happens to be April 1st, the beginning of National Poetry Month and the NaPoWriMo - 30 poems in 30 days Challenge.  I came across 'alliteration' at school (I am a supply teacher). My Instagram Doodle-A-Day Sketchbook challenge by @TinkerLab is Circles.  All of this came together to serve as my 'prompt' for Day 1.






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Dance of Life





Billions of barely visible - and, even then, only with a Very Powerful Microscope (or a VPM) -
Smaller than small dancing circles 
Make up life.

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They circle and dance
And divide and live and die
And change or die
And LIVE 
LIVELY; they dance together and become greater than one tiny circle;
More alive and afloat, armed with allies in this Awesome dance. 

                                                                                 Rough Drafts  -->

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* About Cosmos:
Like the legendary original series by Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, it is the saga of how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the series will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. It will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, such as theCosmic Calendar and The Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder and weaving science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.
http://www.globaltv.com/cosmos/

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