Day 3, Part 2 NaPoWriMo Haiku

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

taxes now e-filed
hitting the transmit button
faster than a stamp.

e-filing taxes
casting electronic spells
now an April rite.

Mid-April bringeth
the stress of a deadline and
hope for a refund.

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Day Three, NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 3, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Maureen challenged us:

I challenge you to write a charm – a simple rhyming poem, in the style of a recipe-slash-nursery rhyme. It could be a charm against warts, or against traffic tickets.

Which was too good to resist as April 15th looms ahead. I was doing this myself the other day and there was a certain amount of jabbing when it came time to send it off.

Spell for Mid-April

Turn chair thrice sun-wise
Wave o’er with dragon eyes
Tap twice on the keys
the spirits to appease
Spoonful of honey
Sweetly lure money!
Sip of gin
Nervous grin
Be not glutton,
Jab send button!
Bring relaxation
Screen of taxation!
Thrice widdershins round
Golden refund found!

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Day Two, Part Two: NaPoWriMo Haiku

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

Yearly flowers laid
a mystery to this child
who’d missed the parade.

The curbside flowers,
today’s random act of grief,
leave behind no stone.

When the parade has passed
and the wreath is left behind
the stone remembers.

Names written in stone
in tribute or in warning
read and remember.

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Day Two, NaPoWriMo

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

In front of school, a block of granite stood
dedicated to the fallen soldiers
I don’t remember what specific war
or if there were smooth spaces to add more.
My family didn’t go to parades
so yearly the arrival of flowers
red white and blue with their matching ribbon
was a mystery to my schoolgirl self.
The memorial stands there yet today.
In my age we practiced duck and cover,
now children of a different world and time
fear not the nuclear but random acts
the massive or small or global warming,
ready to lay flowers at any curb.

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Work to go

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Mary Beth Frezon

I guess I better be thinking about day two NaPoWriMo work two, but I’m packed for some work in waiting room today with Mom (first cataract!). Will keep you posted.

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