Category Archives: NaPoWriMo

Prapancha Soup – A Recipe for Disaster

03 Thursday Apr 2014

Posted by in Buddhism, Humour, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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Take a cup of envy,

and mix it with some greed,

season it with hatred,

then add some, woe is me!

 

Plus one spoon of ego,

marinade in pity,

righteous indignation,

will make the mixture pretty.

 

Make a quick snap judgement,

blend it with assumption,

now, Prapancha Soup,

is ready for consumption!

 

 

© Prapancha Soup 18/08/2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

English: Beetroot soup with vegetables and hard-boiled eggs, Sanok (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Dreams

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by in Deep Stuff!, Muse, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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Of what do I dream,

when I close my eyes?

I dream of the sea

and the star filled skies.

 

From constellations above

I would fashion a crown;

a cloak from the sea

matches my moonbeam gown.

 

I roam in the heavens

with Arianrod and Aether.

I swim in the oceans

with Nereides beneath.

 

With heartbroken Sirens,

sing laments to the seas.

With Aquilo the wind

I sing songs in the breeze.

 

When I close my eyes,

to this earth I’m not bound.

Neither time nor dimension

can tie this soul down.

 

 

© Dreams 2012

By Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Nereides, 1902 by Gaston Bussière (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Fuddle

17 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by in Humour, Muse, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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I’m in a tangle

I’m in a muddle

I have two poems

mixed up in a fuddle

 

I cannot part them

I try but they don’t

I tease and I prune

they simply just won’t

 

I’ve tried all that I can

I admit that alas

they’re conjoined forever

they’re really stuck fast

 

© Fuddle 17.04.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

kittentastic (Photo credit: Alicakes*)

 

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Hope

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by in Death, Deep Stuff!, Grief, Heartbreak, Loss, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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When you sipped champagne,

to celebrate the slipping of your life,

what did I have?

He was a chancer,

Romancer,

much the same as you.

I did it on my own,

no help,

no love,

Just me,

and a will to survive,

to feel alive,

and to hope.

Sometimes,

all we have,

is

hope.

 

© Hope 16.04.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

 

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Pantun

15 Monday Apr 2013

Posted by in Heartbreak, Longing & Waiting, Loss, Love, NaPoWriMo, Poetry

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The pantun is a traditional Malay form, a style of which was later adapted into French and then English as the pantoum. A pantun consists of rhymed quatrains (abab), with 8-12 syllables per line. The first two lines of each quatrain aren’t meant to have a formal, logical link to the second two lines, although the two halves of each quatrain are supposed to have an imaginative or imagistic connection.

English: A snowdrop. Svenska: En snödroppe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love you

but I let you go

I see through

the winter’s snow

 

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

15.04.2013

English: A snowdrop. Svenska: En snödroppe. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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