Thank you for your participation in the November competition, you know who you are
I enjoyed the various takes on our fireworks theme, the entries are here.
The usual suspects one might say but always some new views of an old story, and why not indeed.
One from FEEG to start us off
Then three not quite in a row from Janus (prolific as always)
Soutie tucked one in between
OZ with an early entry (for him at least)
And a last minute entry from TR (without help)
I liked them all even the one which was not quite R-P. But best of all I liked
“Ode to Sparkler”
O slender wand, what pleasure looms
As Dad ignites your bulbous head!
That burst of light and hiss that comes
With flying sparks so quickly dead.
We practice chants and magic spells –
Abracadabra. Let’s play swords!
‘Til ‘one of us’, my sister tells,
Is writing all the rudest words.
And then, you’re gone. It’s dark once more.
Just wiry junk left on the floor.
So Janus wins the prize this month, congratulations, and it’s over to him for the Christmas theme
Boadicea's Chariot 
Well! Our gobs are smacked! Thank you, LW! I’ll have to don the santa-hat and find a yuletide theme for y’all.
A worthy winner. Congrats.
OZ
If I don’t win one soon I’m going to give up!
There is no ways ……………………….. (Ok, I’ll stop now)
One thing that I’ve learned is that when a member calls my contribution a ‘tour de force’ I’ll have to submit another.
So that’s my disappointment and agrievement over, I’m delighted that Janus is not in the next compo, but please, not a month’s deadline, entries pour in after a week or so, and my creative juices are stymied, oh, am I ranting a touch here?
Okay, I’ll move on, who was the winner again?
congrats 🙂
Well done, Janus, again!
No, Soutie, I feel the same, he’s just too good at this poetry business. 😉
Well played, J-man.