DAY 8 - A REAL WORK OF ART BUT…

NaPoWriMo Day 8

For Read Write Poem

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Valentine’s Day is long past, says RWP member Jill Crammond Wickham, but we poets must keep up our reputation as the world’s foremost experts on writing about love!
Today, think of your current love, your current obsession or the one who got away. Now come up with five or more unusual metaphors for the object of your affection/obsession: wool scarf, cough drop, puddle, half-empty bottle of red wine… Choose your favorite of the bunch and write a poem celebrating (or trashing) your love.

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NO OIL PAINTING

‘Tropical storm’ due this afternoon
Arriving by aeroplane
If I don’t meet her at the airport
There could be a hurricane

Wet and windy I can endure
Battered from pillar to post
That’s a different kettle of fish
Effects are felt coast to coast

‘Tropical Storm’ aka Penny
Visits me three times a year
*Everybody needs a part time love
‘Bad Penny’ haunts me... Suits her!

‘Old Eyesore’ wears her make-up (((LOUD)))!
And applies it hit and miss
Wears her outfits two sizes too small
“Does me bum look big in this?”

You’ve got to love her, my ‘Bird of Prey’
Laugh a minute down the pub
She downs pints of *Babycham - in one!
“Love, could you give’s a sub”

I can’t compare her to a Red Rose
‘Old Oak Tree’ is more exact
While sleeping, with her make-up removed
She sure looks rough... that’s a fact!

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*Acknowledgements:

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'Everybody needs a part time love'

from the song 'Part Time Love'

by Elton John

From the 1978 Album 'A Single Man'

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Babycham is the trade name of a light,

sparkling perry invented by Francis Showering,

a brewer in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England;