Seth's Dodo-a-GoGo

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1.

Here is my Lune...


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Rain merits:
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Fri Apr 01, 2016 5:23 pm

Lune? The river of Lancaster? Actually, I'm still puzzling about Napokokamo - something to do with National Poetry Month. You are impressively fecund!

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National poetry month meets the kakapo.
Rosencrantz: What are you playing at? Guildenstern: Words. Words. They're all we have to go on.
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David wrote:Lune? The river of Lancaster?
On Lunes...here, the first prompt:

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Fri Apr 01, 2016 6:49 pm

Amazing. Never heard of them. Interesting.

Do you have to register for this NaPoMo, or can anyone join in? I might look for inspiration during my night out in Peel tonight. Although, the way I am at the moment, I'll end up with NaPoSloMo.

I still can't work out how you personalised it in your title.
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Amazing. Never heard of them. Interesting. Do you have to register for this NaPoMo, or can anyone join in? I might look for inspiration during my night out in Peel tonight. Although, the way I am at the moment, I'll end up with NaPoSloMo.
Just join in!
I still can't work out how you personalised it in your title.
Okay, I admit, I haven't.


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It's just when you start writing NaPoMoWriFiNoGo you can't work out where to stop.
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2.

The Sound of the Burn

claims the air. Not with volume.
Its title is the sound of fluency;
though heard so many times,
still fresh as sudden understanding.
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2. Alternate

The Sound of the Burn Water

claims the air:
Not with volume.
Its title is the sound of clarity

enchanting

though you have heard it
many times, fresh
as sudden understanding.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:05 pm

Antcliff wrote:1.

Here is my Lune...


Thunderous applause.
Rain merits:
thunderous applause.
Clever...
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:06 pm

Maybe prefer v1 of No.2...
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Thanks, Ian....


3.

The Gorse

adore their dreamy sun.
Five hundred puckerings
on this one bush alone.
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bodkin wrote:Maybe prefer v1 of No.2...
Yes, me too, I think.

And you've made the gorse a collective noun in no. 3? That's interesting. Is it horticulturally correct? I've never thought of it (them?) like that. Like the Borg.

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Is it horticulturally correct?
No. Though spiritually correct.
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Crofting

Why repair the roof on the old byre?
So there's somewhere for the bull.
Why keep a bull? To keep the byre in use.
Why keep the byre in use? Otherwise,
the roof may fall. Why repair the roof...
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Fun!
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Fri Apr 08, 2016 8:49 pm

Window Down, Jaw Drop

I passed your field. Cold sheep
munching in a shape
that almost spelt my name:

carefully posed--by the mud,
by the panoramic sky,
by chance, odd Mister Chance.
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Mon Apr 11, 2016 8:26 pm

Stone Wall

Been here so long.
Though not as long as you think.
Moss grows the illusion.

Slumps, slightly,
as though it's borne the weight of weather,
only now, casting off Winter,

intertwining with the welcome
of reflowering bushes.
Somewhere inside snakes hide.
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Consonance in Camera

Lost,
storm tossed,
compost bin
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The tuba is no instrument of love


except
when played
by one elephant to another.

Then
there is no greater ecstasy.
Ears quiver.
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Fri Apr 15, 2016 12:58 pm

The gunfight


at the Not OK Corral
was stopped
because of woodworm
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Sat Apr 16, 2016 10:10 am

Really enjoying these, Seth. Especially the Not OK Corral.
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Fri Apr 22, 2016 12:31 pm

David wrote:Really enjoying these, Seth. Especially the Not OK Corral.
Likewise.
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Sat Apr 23, 2016 10:18 am

Thanks, David and Ian.

A tiny effort. You are leading the way here, Ian! We are mere st........rag.....glers....

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