Gross Encounters of the Worst Kind #WEP

 

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Just who is responsible for this travesty?

An FBI agent named Mulder

Researched a UFO sighting near Boulder

He stepped in alien poo

Which ruined his shoe

So the trail went a little bit colder

~Ornery Owl Has Spoken in 28 Words~

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https://pixabay.com/illustrations/background-city-night-owl-alien-7755199/

Don't you even try to pin this on me, UFO Jockey!

https://writeeditpublishnow.blogspot.com/2023/06/june-wep-close-encounters-of-third-kind.html

Ornery Owl says:

Yeah, sure, you can give this piece the full-on critique if you really feel compelled to do so, but I can save you some time.

1) This is not a great poem. I don't believe for a second it will win any prizes. That isn't its purpose.

2) The poem has too many syllables in the second line.

3) Depending on what part of the world you're from, Mulder and Boulder may not rhyme very well. My horrific accent makes everything sound like it got shoved down a garbage disposal. You, however, may be one of those high-fallutin' sorts who enunciate words clearly.

4) The poem's genre is comedy. If it made you laugh, cool. If it didn't make you laugh, at least you only had to suffer through 28 words. 

That's about all I have to say about that. Until next time!

November PAD Challenge 2022: Day 29: A Quintet of Couplets

 

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I

I feel just like a banyan buried in the snow

What the hell a banyan is I can't say I truly know

II

What kind of nightmarish choices will we have in the next election?

Someone with more brains than a turnip would be a good selection.

III

I wonder if I jinxed myself at some point in the past

So many wishes I wished on stars never came to pass.

IV

I wonder where my soul will go on the day my ashes scatter

Will I be off on a new adventure, or will it just not matter?

V

The letter in the envelope challenged me to choose between truth and dare

I put it aside for later, procrastinating without a care.

~Ornery Owl Has Coupled (or Coupleted)~

Image by Chiplanay on Pixabay

https://pixabay.com/illustrations/owl-bird-animal-hand-writing-5070039/

notes and prompts used

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2022-november-pad-chapbook-challenge-day-29

Prompt: 

Write a truth poem and/or write a dare poem.

You may have noticed the absence of a Day 28 poem. You are correct. The prompt for Day 28 was to write a remix poem. I save my remix poem for December 1.

https://imprompt.wordpress.com/2022/11/28/day-28/

The prompt asks participants to take the following list of words and turn them into titles.

BANYAN

TURNIP

JINX

SCATTER

ENVELOPE

Yeah--I deviated from the prompt.

"Titles?" scoffed I. "Pish! I shall use these words in my couplets!"

https://imprompt.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/day-29/

Write some couplets.

Today's Playlist

https://odysee.com/@GamingAmbience:6/the-ascent-the-warrens-blossom-hill-%281:5?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

C'mon, ya scrooges, let's get in the spirit of the season!

https://odysee.com/@Radioman:a/Y2Mate.is---Christmas-Music-From-Another-Room---Relaxing-Christmas-Ambience-with-Muffled-Christmas-Music-QeDzM6HKr5k-240p-1654936036014:b?r=GTwnGJ4fFBQfzuJgpHVpfKBKaC9b8B16

Yesterday was the 12th anniversary of my father's passing. He was always a big fan of celebrating the holidays. I hope there's music like this and plenty of cheer where he is now. 

Bad Heir Day

 

Image by Mote Oo Education from Pixabay

the miscreant heir who plays bass

engages in behavior most base

should he continue to err

then to his despair

from the will he will be erased

~cie~

Day 3: Write a communication poem.

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-day-3

This poem communicates...something.

https://www.napowrimo.net/day-three-7

The prompt was to make a deck of cards with words on them and choose one.

I didn't do that.

https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/04/03/double-take-saturday-mix-3-april-2021/

Never let it be said that I'm incapable of following directions.

I used all the homophones from this prompt.

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Ornery Poetry: Helen MacGuffin

 

Helen of Troy by Evelyn De Morgan (1898, London); Helen admiringly displays a lock of her hair, as she gazes into a mirror decorated with the nude Aphrodite.

Consider, please, Helen of Troy

Whose mug spelled doom for thousands of boys

The lads perished for nuffin

Helen's face is a MacGuffin

That conjures neither pleasure nor joy

~cie~

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-countdown-t-minus-5

Write a MacGuffin poem

Please note that I am not implying that Helen is a MacGuffin. She is a critically important character from Greek mythology. The "MacGuffin" is Helen's face, as referred to in the line "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?" from Christopher Marlowe's poem.

From the Wikipedia entry on Helen of Troy

Helen appears in various versions of the Faust myth, including Christopher Marlowe's 1604 play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, in which Faustus famously marvels, "Was this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" upon seeing a demon impersonating Helen.^[89] The line, which is frequently quoted out of context,^[89][91] is a paraphrase of a statement from Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead.

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In my quest for righteous participation in my favorite blog hops without sacrificing what little remains of my sanity, I am going to try sharing my poetry with Weekend Writing Warriors, at least while I am immersed in the process of formatting my overdue poetry volume. We'll see how this goes. 

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The Parents of Invention (Tanka)

 

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necessity is

the mother of invention

madness the father

the divine madman conspires

with the creative muses

~cie~

Write an "invention" poem

https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/2021-april-pad-challenge-countdown-t-minus-6

Haiku My Heart

https://corazon.typepad.com/recuerda_mi_corazon/2021/03/haiku-my-heart-3.html

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Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation: Contentious Eggplant

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troublesome eggplant

hard to sketch and hard to grow

pumpkins are not so

~cie~

notes

So, the challenge was to rewrite a Haiku by Shiki using the Shasei style and then turn it into a Tanka. Please click the banner to learn more. If I try to explain, it will only end up becoming convoluted.

I am not sure I succeeded at Shasaei-ing, but I did learn that Shiki was a rebel, and this I succeed at. After re-imagining his Haiku about eggplant and pumpkins, I thought that adding the Ageku stanza would overshadow the perfect brevity (and sharp snarkitude) of the resulting Senryu, so I am leaving it Ageku-less.

Here is the Eggplant Haiku by Shiki.

Sketching from life —

eggplants are harder to do

than pumpkins

© Masaoka Shiki (Tr. Burton Watson)

Carpe Diem New Beginnings: Ornery Senryu: First Sunray

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first rays of sunshine

after working the night shift

felt like a vampire

~The Ornery Old Night Owl~

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Ornery Notes:

I haven't had to work the night shift in close to three years now. But I'm still a night owl!

The night shift was always fine for me until about three or four in the morning. The last three or four hours were horrible.

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Ghost Town Grover Sez:

"I gotta tell y'all, on Halloween night in Telluride in 1880, I was whoopin' it up with some of the other miners, and when I went out behind the saloon to drain the ole rattlesnake, this pale feller with slick black hair wearin' a fancy cape come floatin' up beside me. I asked him if he wanted to come into the saloon and join me and the fellers fer a swig of Amos Fine's Famous Shine. 

That high-fallutin' feller said in a hoity-toity way that he didn't never drink Shine. Now, maybe he was jest eccentric or somethin', but when Father O'Malley come outta the saloon wearin' his big ole silver cross on a chain, that feller hissed like an angry tomcat, hollered "BLUH!", pulled his cape over his face, and turned tail and run. 

Maybe he'd bin slippin' outta the church after Sunday meetin's without tithin' proper, but there shore was somethin' weird about that fancy-pants stranger, and he shore didn't take a shine to the good Father and his shiny cross.

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Cactus Clem Sez:

"Well, Grover, I bet y'all didn't know it, but Ornery actually is a vamper. I done heard her tellin' someone all about how she got hammered on cactus juice on Saint Patrick's Day in 1992 an' ended up sleepin' on someone's bathroom floor! She ain't tried to drink the juice from my veins yet, but I'm gonna have to sleep with one eye open on St. Patrick's Day!"

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Further Ornery Notes:

Cactus Clem doesn't have anything to worry about. I really can't drink more than a few sips of beer or wine these days. But if you're feeling daring, you can click the link above and try the drink that the cute little buffalo is serving up!

November PAD Chapbook Challenge 2019: Day 12: Form

Image by Elizabeth Thomas from Pixabay

you

can't force

me to adhere

to a prescribed form

I'm totally a

free spirit

Fuck!

~Cie~

Note:

The November PAD Chapbook Challenge prompt was to write a form poem or anti-form poem. I've been doing a lot of heavy lifting in my poetry recently, so I wanted to just have fun with this one.

By the way, YouTube can kiss my butt with it's new stopping the music to check and see if I'm still listening bullshit. Bitch, I have the music on while I'm writing or sleeping and I like it like that. I don't want to have to check in with you. I want to let the damn music play.

OctPoWriMo 2019: Day 13: Hug a Tree Maybe (A Tricksy Tanka)

Image by Valentin Sabau from Pixabay

all alone with me

alone in bad company

most assuredly

should I reach and hug a tree

would it haul off and slap me?

~Cie~