painting by Rubens Peale
There
it sat
eating our cake …
lemon flavoured frosting
with shiny
sprinkles.
Magpie,
eternal thief,
of bright trinkets
mistook our cake
for treasure
trove.
“Thanksgiving
we’ll eat
a magpie pie!”
Mother
in earnest
shouted that day.
So I fled
and hid
crying,
thinking
of blackbirds
in a pie.
© G.s.k. ‘15
Also linked to: B&P Shadorma & Beyond – The Hay(na)ku – November 28, 2015
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An entertaining story to fit the art 🙂
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Thanks a lot Lynn … glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
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Chuckles! Love this poem written in a serious mode but in a lighter mood. Wonderful humor Georgia!
Hank
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Thanks Hank … I just discovered the form and wanted to try it out … and this was such a lovely subject! Georgia.
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Very cool!!!!
That 4 and 20 blackbirds rhyme always freaked me out …. lol
This form will be a challenge 🙂
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I do so agree … I thought that was the most atrocious thing to do to those poor birds!
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nice!
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Oh my goodness poor child, traumatized over possible blackbird pie. At the beginning it felt like a skip along children song and the ending surprised me when I first read.However, when I read it again, I found dark humour (I know I am horrible) like the type in some nusery rhymes.
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Ah … instead I’m so happy you found the dark humour! This was of course, not meant to be a “serious” poem .. but it’s true, that children’s rhyme always perplexed me as a child – though not enough to make me cry 😉
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Then I am happy I did not jack up your poem. Heck children’s rhyme confuse me as an adult but am better able to understand their ambiguous meaning.
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Yes, Nursery Rhymes are odd things for sure … playing around with children’s minds I think.
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Oh this is quite Wonderful!
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🙂 glad you liked it .. a fun prompt btw.
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The art/image is so beautiful, really beckons to the Muse…
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It sure does .. Mag is a great place to find inspiration … I’d lost track of it for a while, as I don’t get email notifications and forget to search it out .. but it really is a great prompt post.
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I’ll have to check back again…hard to remember all these things 🙂
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The link is on my poem … feel free to follow it and then go to the home page to see earlier prompts … or in their archives.
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Ohhh, thanks for helping me out–you’re a Pal!
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🙂 any time … I usually do link the prompts when I write my pieces .. more than anything else, so that I can find them again – if I remember when I wrote them!
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I checked it out–thanks. I’m careful to link also–it’s the only “rule” I follow, as I no longer do the Mr Linky part…
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In fact, if I don’t happen to go by MLMM or some other site I don’t catch your writes .. I usually read who’s on Mr. Linky. Of course if I put up the prompt and if you link I get a notification.
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It’s not important if you miss my writes–I stopped doing the linky for both technical reasons, and the fact that I simply can’t get to all the blogs who link up.
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now THAT is a good reason not to link up with mr. linky!
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Always happy to help btw.
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🙂
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Well, this made me laugh:) Thanks 🙂
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Good! This makes me smile 😉
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I’m starting to like this form:)
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It’s really a lot of fun to write with … and it has lots of variations one can try. I put it up as a prompt on B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond this week.
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Gave it a look, think I’ll give it a try. I like the inversion part, works well with the continuation version.
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I agree … it’s very aesthetic like that.
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