Day 3

National Poetry Writing Month

#NaPoWriMo

Today’s prompt (optional, as always) asks you to make use of our resource for the day. First, make a list of ten words. You can generate this list however you’d like – pull a book  off the shelf and find ten words you like, name ten things you can see from where you’re sitting, etc. Now, for each word, use Rhymezone to identify two to four similar-sounding or rhyming words. For example, if my word is “salt,” my similar words might be “belt,” “silt,” “sailed,” and “sell-out.”

Once you’ve assembled your complete list, work on writing a poem using your new “word bank.” You don’t have to use every word, of course, but try to play as much with sound as possible, repeating  sounds and echoing back to others using your rhyming and similar words.

Here are so attempts at this prompt
What do you think?

Spring is in the air

sun is shining through the window
rays creeping to meet my feet by the seat
lighting up my tulips opening their lips
warming the cat napping on the doormat
go on risk it!  with a snippet of a biscuit 
by the little rabbit dressed as an abbot
in the shadows hangs suits and leather boots
it`s time to enjoy the sun, have some fun
dreams of campervans, Batmans and make plans
so with my notepad and pen, I`ll write once again

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

Spring

Sleek squeak snoozes in the sun
Bubbles troubles frogs in the pond
sees the bees flying high across the sky
as the sun catches the corner of my eye

pink blossom buds begin bright floods
a sensual scent that`s heaven sent
singing the arrival of spring
delighting in everything!

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

Day 2 national Poetry Writing Month 

#NaPoWriMo

Our prompt for the day takes a leaf from Schuyler’s book, as it were, and asks you to write a poem about a specific place —  a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances (“three and a half blocks from the post office”), the types of trees or flowers, the colour of the shirts on the people you remember there. Little details like this can really help the reader imagine not only the place, but its mood – and can take your poem to weird and wild places.

Happy writing!

Old Rectory

Standing in it`s mature garden
resides a beautiful old rectory
painted white with blue woodwork
holding on to so much history

house gates sit by the roundabout
tall metal posts painted bright blue
open every day to welcome everyone
all who need help to come through

long driveway takes you to the porch
through to a door lined hall way
with its wide sweeping staircase
still as elegant as in its heyday

disconnected servant`s bells
attached to the kitchen wall
as children sit at the kitchen table
eating their jam sandwich haul

dressed in matching blue jumpers
they swing their feet under chairs
until it`s time to go out to play
they can be just a cheeky pair

this is not just a working house
its a loving family home too
filled with wonderful memories
in this house with it`s gates so blue!

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

April 2020

National Poetry Writing Month Day 1

#NaPoWriMo

I’d like to challenge you to write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life – one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only in specific circumstances. For example, bowling, or shopping for socks, or shoveling snow, or teaching a child to tie its shoes. 

Fridge Fear

Opening the fridge.. oh my

found a forest of packages

and partially empty bottles

goodness what a sight met my eye

stripping out it`s contents

finding items I`d forgotten

wow there`s a solitary onion

a disaster area for presents

sponge and cleaner in hand

it`s nose to the grind stone, I go

soon have it clean as a whistle

it will be worth it in the end!

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

bubbling frog spawn 

floating under the surface

ready to burst free!

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clear waters bubbling

tall trees dressed in ancient green

shoals of fish swim by

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

scanty clad people

relaxing in bright sunshine

sun screen essential 

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

Playful Angels

Oops my halo`s slipped again

I mustn`t take it off to play

Maybe I shouldn`t remove it at all

Angel`s image is to stay and pray

I have this desire to skip and jump

Hate being the silent helper too

Want to sing and make daisy chains

Why can`t I dance and play with you

The archangels calmly tell me off

They say I should be more demure

Respectful of the old traditions

But making children smile is best for sure

I`m sorry if I get it all wrong

Maybe one day I`ll live and learn

But until then we`ll  have some fun

Please give me a chance, don`t be too stern!!

(c) Lissie Bull 2020

Chocolate Trophies

Chocolate bunnies and Easter eggs

filling the store shelves and our heads

brightly coloured and so inviting

these excitingly awesome spreads

there`s different surprises to behold

eyes open wide with the promise of fun

what will be inside these sweet eggs

kids can`t wait for the day to come

and on the morning they rush down stairs

to find their trophies of the day

with cardboard boxes all discarded

it`s chocolate heaven all the way.!

(c) Lissie Bull 2020