Morning musings

Awakenings

i

They giggle in bed
loud, joyous rough and tumble
breakfast is ignored

ii

Arms and legs
big and little
I slip
from their grasp
and face
the morning

iii

The game console pings
attracting children like moths
I stretch - bed's all mine

Poem - Day 15

Do I?

My brother is

and I rejoice,

but puzzle at

the brouhaha

My sister said

she might not wait

another year

past 39

My other sister

wanted to

but couldn’t in

our sunburnt land

My son observed

you don’t have to

just fall in love

like mum and dad

My parents’

lasted 26

but now they aren’t

on speaking terms

My book revealed

at 40-odd

Miss Potter did

for 30 years

I resolved

if we survive

three decades

maybe

we should

too

ABCD... a litany of complaints

The challenge for last Saturday was an Abcdedarian - a poem in which each line starts with a consecutive letter of the alphabet. I found this really hard - and the results are very silly (as you can see) and I totally cheated with Z. My four-year-old son cried because 'it was yucky' but reassured me that he liked my other poems. Anyway - here it is.

 

In the wars

Achy head and

blistered toes

chapped dry lips

drip-dripping nose

earhole wax and

flaky skin

gooey eyes that

hair got in

itchy fingers

jammed in doors

knocking knees

large weeping sores

mozzie bites, a

nasty flu

oozing boils and

pimples too

quaking shivers

rectal worms

salmonella

tightrope burns

ulcers bursting

viral chills

wretched fractures

x-ray bills

You think my health is triple-cursed? Try

zymase poisoning, it's the worst

Month of poetry - not for the kids

In January I am writing a poem a day as part of a fabulous month of poetry co-ordinated by Kathryn Apel. The posts need to be family friendly, and some of mine haven't turned out that way - so I thought I'd post here, with the warning that some of them might upset the little ones, or require some explanation (which is important, but nice to be prepared).

Here's the first - an erasure poem from the new words page of the Australian Oxford Dictionary (2004 ed.)


Words for the 21st century

DVD
SMS
XML
zip

ground zero
9/11
weapon of mass
destruction

asylum seeker
call centre
carbon credit
SARS

ho
booty
trailer trash
chop chop

yada

(c) Nadine Cranenburgh, 2015