
Let us not pretend
virus is only problem
time to regrow fins
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CLP 07/04/2021
Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
Let us not pretend
virus is only problem
time to regrow fins
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CLP 07/04/2021
night, asleep
after valentines
messaged “night”
he wakes; strange silence
no traffic, just the night bird
drapes back-lit by blues
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n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day 7 prompt syallable count forms (i) Shadorma 3/5/3/5/7/5. See below Raid (ii) for an example of (ii) Fibonacci 1/1/2/3/5/8.
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CLP 07/04/2021
Knock!
BANG!
Armed Police!
BY THE DOOR!
You! On the stairs – STOP!
ARMED POLICE OFFICER! YOU!! HANDS UP!!!
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n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Seven prompt: short form syllable-count poems, (ii) Fibonacci 1/1/2/3/5/8
By way of explanation, in the UK it is still remarkable to witness armed police officers going about their work at 02:00hrs on a Valentine’s Day morning.
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CLP 07/04/2021
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Down by the quayside
where fishermen know to sit
young seal making hay
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n.b. I had heard of this young pup’s arrival a week ago and today I saw it surface a few times. Despite the snow in the wind, a woman had taken her coat off to sit on it on the grass embankment and watch the seal diving. It is remarkable how long these creatures can sustain a dive while fishing. It would then pop up its head and have a look around while recharging its lungs. Goodness knows what it finds underwater here, possibly the hire bikes from the city’s first less than secure public cycle scheme of a few years back.
There have been precious few boats on The Broads for over a year and so the river has become a safe navigation for this seal and who knows how many others. It must have found somewhere to rest up too, seals like lolling around on a beach or mudflat for long periods between diving for fish.
Things will change soon, as holidays within the UK become the thing for a while, so these waters will become quite busy, then where will this seal go? Similarly, I wonder how the otters further upstream, even closer to the city centre, will fare.
in shorts and t-shirts
all but seven days ago
swallows presaged snow
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CLP 07/04/2021
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Great to have you back writing in tandem!
Congratulations on being selected for the NaPoWriMo poem / poets of Day 5, 2021.
Press on and don’t spare the horses!
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CLP 06/04/2021