Who is Gun Roswell? (TBT)

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“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child’s eye – it is very beautiful” Kailash Satyarthi

Who is Gun Roswell?

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The year was nineteen sixty eight
Life still at stage wait
I must have been no more
Than three years of age

Little Red Riding Hood
Yes, I knew I could
In the borrowed red elf’s hat
Cutest thing you ever saw
Prettiest princess of them all
How could I ever top that!

Now, forty seven years later
Oh life, you’re such a traitor!
I still love red of course
Now I wear it with horns
In the mighty stiletto heels
Life is as good as it feels

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Hyvää Syntymäpäivää Mamma!

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Posted in Celebration: Photography, Poetry and Humour (Finnish version)

“Taivaalla lentää… Teräs Mamma!”

Hyvää Syntymäpäivää Mamma!

Teräs Mamma
Super Muori
Ei ehkä niin nuori
Perunat kuitenkin kuori
Ja laittoi sukat suoriks
Hiukset kampas’
Paimensi jopa lampaat
Pesi hampaat

“Onhan tänään päivä suuri
Vaikka heräsinkin juuri
Ja vastasin luuriin
Matkalla kauppaan Tuuriin”

Eipä kummoinen riimi
Eipä tämä runoilija ole kovin fiini
Joten tähän lopuksi
Ennen kuin pitää laittaa hopuksi

“Erinomaista synttäriä sulle Mamma!”

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Happy Birthday to Our Mom!

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“My mother is a walking miracle”
Leonardo DiCaprio

Happy Birthday to Our Mom!

A true super hero
A non-caped crusader
A mom made of steel
She’ll make you eat oatmeal
Tell you how she feels
Ask you, what is the big deal
The mom of moms
Enjoys the occasional rum
Is a lot of fun
And always has a phaser on stun

With the motto
“Always be prepared for the worst
But expect the best”
That is why she plays the Lotto
Just like the rest

So this was not a great rhyme
But at the bell’s chime
We all get together to wish you:
A Very Happy Birthday Mom!

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The Born One

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Photo credits Miranda and Jessica Solingius

“People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.”
– Leo J. Burke

The Born One

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On this day,
A little deary was born
Coming out tooting a horn

The cat said “well, we’ll wait and see!”
The dog retorted “is that something for me?”

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The two mommies are in love
There is nothing more precious below or above

Now both aunties too, are happy
As long as they don’t have to change the nappy

Live long and prosper little Hon’
We know you were the long awaited one

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Universal Children’s Day 20 November

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Posted in Celebration: Universal Children’s Day 20 November

“Childhood means simplicity.
Look at the world with the child’s eye –
it is very beautiful.”
Kailash Satyarthi

Universal Children’s Day

The world would be total shit
Without a child in it
No laughter, nor giggles
No mystery nor riddles

Doing all kinds of silly things
With her dog and tiny wings
Future wide and open
For them you are hoping

Joy and fortune
Without worry or torture
Today’s little children
Tomorrow’s gems and pearls

Let them play
Let them stay
Little children
A while longer

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Happy 35th Birthday Little Sis’!

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Photography /Poetry /Humour /Song

Sisters, Sisters lyrics by Irving Berlin

“Sisters, sisters
There were never such devoted sisters,
Never had to have a chaperone, no sir,
I’m there to keep my eye on her

Caring, sharing
Every little thing that we are wearing
All kinds of weather, we stick together
The same in the rain and sun”

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Happy 35th Birthday Little Sis’!

My two little sisters
Twins, they say with a whisper

Two of a kind they ain’t
The other likes to shop
The other likes to paint
The other holds a job
The other would rather faint

My little sisters
They sometimes give me blisters

But here is the twister
I am still the lucky winner
With my two dear sisters

Many happy returns Johanna and Miranda aka Amanda & Bertta!

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Faces (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Five

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Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography 

Poetry, Day Two: Face

* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.

Faces

“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell

Um, are we lost?

“Are we there yet?”

“I think we just lost the bet!”

“If it rains again,
We’ll get wet!”

“No sweat,
All we need to do
Is reset…
There done!”

And they were all gone!

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Faces (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Four

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Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography 

Poetry, Day Two: Face

* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.

Faces

“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell

Yep, I am taller

“I am taller than you ha-ha!
You are shorter than me ha-ha!”

“In your face sucker!
I ate all the peanut butter!”

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Faces (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Three

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Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography 

Poetry, Day Two: Face

* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.

Faces

“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell

Techno Granny

Techno savvy red-haired granny
Plucking her phone, working fingers to the bone

“I am no nanny and I don’t want a scone!
Young lady, don’t give me that tone!”

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Faces (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Two

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Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography 

Poetry, Day Two: Face

* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.

Faces

“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell

Um, I don’t know

“Is it a dog, frog or a hog?
I should not have had that last grog!”

“I only see fog,
Or maybe it’s smog?”

“I need to write my blog
And then go out for a jog”

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