Delicious and Colourful (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Two

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Photography /Poetry /Humour

Poetry, Day Seven: Flavor

From the simple (butter on toast, a childhood-evoking bubblegum) to the more complex (insert your latest dinner-party triumph — or fiasco), flavor occupies a crucial place in our memories, in our stories, and in our social interactions.

Delicious and Colourful

“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting” Teri Garr

Strawberries!

In summertime,
In July
Something easy,
For both tummy
And the eye

Delicious
Nutricious
Precious

Sun kissed
Wouldn’t miss

Eat them
While you can
Soon, the season is over
And it will be October
When you’ll be eating
Canned spam!

Delicious and Colourful (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) One

Posted on July 13, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Photography /Poetry /Humour

Poetry, Day Seven: Flavor

Delicious and Colourful

“I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It’s very comforting” Teri Garr

Cherry on Top

The red, red cherry
Is one delicious berry
Quite the legendary

Consume it
With a glass of Sherry
And,
In to a heavenly state
You’ll soon be ferried

Twin Screens (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry)

Posted on July 12, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Photography /Poetry /Humour

Day Six: Screen

You’re reading these words on a screen. Screens — comforting, addictive, inescapable — are everywhere, especially when we read and write (and blog). Today, write a poem about, against, or in homage to the screens in your life. Or write about some other kind of screen — for example, the one stretched across your window, or the piece of cloth on which movies are projected at the theater.

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them” Steve Jobs

Twin Screens

My confession
My obsession
My precious
My life essence

Sitting on the table
I really cannot lable
This is no fable
Or maybe
I am just, unstable

My two Macs
Nothing do they lack
No time do I track
Even by their side
Do I snack

Breaking away
Keeping them at bay
There’ll come a day,
But for now
I choose to stay

They give me all
With them,
Life’s a ball
Some might say
I stall

World wide
Do I glide
Virtually mind!
Maybe I just hide
Maybe I am tied

My Macs
The two of them
Now packed
Time to hit the road
Jack

Dear Reader
This was a tale of humour
Somewhat of a rumour
A tale told by the weaver

Maybe, I actually did more
And myself away tore
Just before
I got too hooked
And started reading a book
Instead

Awesome Friends of Summer (WP Intro to Poetry)

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Poetry /Photography

Poetry, Day Three: Friend

* Whether it’s about a time they saved your life or a moment when they disappointed you, write today’s poem about a friend: a person, an animal, or even a fictional character that’s close to your heart. You could also address a group of people, or an object that represents friendship for you.
* Looking to flex your poetic muscles today? Give acrostic a try: it’s a fun poetic form where the first letter of every verse combines to create a word or a message

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it” Russell Baker

Awesome Friends (of Summer)

A house sits on the bare island
Waiting for its summer friends
Exited, exhilarated, hoping, that
Soon, they’ll be arriving, from the mainland

On the look out through the lens
Many a lonely days was spent
Eternal fire always burning

For the long awaited to be returning
Rejoicing of the pending arrival
Impatience its only ally
Evening turning to morning
Now, the friend are returning
Damned be all fear
Summer, is finally here

Faces (WP Writing: Intro to Poetry) Five

Posted on July 8, 2016 by Gun Roswell

Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
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!