New Pome Competition
Much as I like to see the Wolf avatar in all its glory on the front page, one problem about winning a comp is the duty of setting the next.
There I was, sittimg idly on the terrace, consuming a piece of boar fresh off the barbie with a green salad and a glass of Cave Country wondering what should be the subject of the next competition. Then, out of a clear blue sky, a flock of migratory swifts appeared, diving down in Dambuster fashion to grab a drink from the pool and flying unashanedly within the pillars of the terrace.
So, I thought, SWIFT, noun or adjective, any form from limerick to plain verse to iambic pentameter. All entries to be in by midnight GMT, 15th July, the anniversary of my whelping.
Plase leave any entries here.
OZ
Photo Winner
Congratulations to Christopher for
Chez Liz
Poetry Winner
Congratulations to Bilby for
Sunshine
Good subject, OZ.
I will think about it of course …
I always think of Swift when it come to poetry, OZ, but I must confess that I’m not quite up to his standard.
I will, nevertheless, have a bash.
Full moon tomorrow, Bilby. Think hard and quickly, and none of that displacement activity.
You too, Araminta.
OZ
Well done OZ. I will have a go if I can find the time, preoccupied by storm damage and obligation to vacate city house (due to sale). July 15 a good day, same birthday as my younger brother, St. Swithin’s as I am sure you know, big obligations regarding rain an’ all.
Not even a scratch or a short hum? I can feel a howl coming on …
Well coat me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians, LW. I didn’t think anyone still knew about St Swithin these days.
OZ
Bilby – There’s a big bugger summertime howl in the offing.
OZ
Ah! A good howling night indeed. I’ll listen for yours.
Hoooowwwll!
OZ
OZ, I’ll find time for a swift one, I hope. Usually do.
I will read some Betjeman (my favourite poet) and seek inspiration.
A submission from me: http://charioteers.org/2012/07/03/the-renegade-swift/
There was a young man called Swift
Who once got stuck in a lift
His butt cheeks he parted
He thunderously farted
Oh my, how that lift niffed!
Boom, boom. Naughty but not nice
Here’s one from me
http://charioteers.org/2012/07/10/the-green-and-gold/
Say hi to Ethel!
http://charioteers.org/2012/07/10/pegasus/
Fear not, and boo yah sucks to Eff, much as I love her; my dreadful pome is almost near completion.
Arrers’ timely words to Eff
Remind me she’s got three days lef’.
Just a modest, very modest, contribution, Senhor Lobo:
The swift cloud sails across the wide blue skies,
Free from all constraints, free from all worries.
I lay on the grass staring,
Only watching it float away.
Is it a house, or a whale?
Is it now a dolphin or a fish?
I look around, this place I where I am –
Is it Japan? Or is it Denmark?
I do not know, but I think I like it more
That that place… That other place I have left
Behind, if only temporarily,
To play Gulliver among the Houyhnhnms.
Oh ye of little faith, Janus:
http://charioteers.org/2012/07/12/a-modest-proposal/
Sorry Oz, as the incumbent poet laureate you have to read all the entries. Here’s mine.
http://charioteers.org/2012/07/13/fast-bizz-lunch-is-for-wimps/
OZ, I trust that the birthday goes well?
Here’s another entry. Hopefully, you now have enough to keep Ethel from the Wolf’s Door.
http://charioteers.org/2012/07/15/a-lay-made-about-the-year-of-the-city-1-swiftly-cobbled-together-for-oz/#more-41949
Your collective efforts seem to have placated Ethel sufficiently and last night was peaceful. I am grateful to you all.
The pome comp is now closed and it behoves me to judge the submissions. Even to a particularly unliterary wolf it is obvious that there are some very fine entries lurking out there and I will have to do the little tappy-tappy thing on the pooter to learn more about your source materials.
This may take a day or two, what with having a Cave full of visitors an’ all, but I’ll sort it asap.
OZ
Strangely I have just found this, browsing back over posts I had missed while away… I wrote a poem about swifts while on holiday! Too late now
Lets have it anyway, Pseu. I can safely say it will receive an honourable mention even if precluded from entering the running.
OZ
Thank you for the offer, but I shall save it for now….
Would you allow Nym’s entry, OZ, if no-one objected? I wouldn’t mind at all, but it’s your decision, of course.
Sorry, Nym. I didn’t see your comment. Fairy snuff.
No problem. It needs work anyway, she said swiftly.
Ode to OZ
The birthday headache must have passed
With all the bottles shipped away;
The thankyou notes now penned; at last
A moment’s calm to welcome this new day.
So what about the pome comp?