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June 3, 2013
I have been trying of late to branch out to different animals.
I mean, in my drawings, and I mean, other than elephants.
The first above was a European Bison. (Sort of.) The hump on his back looks suspicious.
Then I moved on to ducks. (Sort of.)
And a horse. (Ha.)
Hope your weekend was good.
P.S. – I’m not sure that drawings uploaded from an iPhone in their original (large) sizes show up on older browsers, so please click on image to see full version. Thanks! (If they are not loading in full, please let me know. I could use smaller versions also.)
Categories: children's illustration, elephants, Uncategorized
Tags: Duck Duck elephant, European Bison - is there such a thing?, horse with Elephant English Style, manicddaily, not elephants (sort of), Whose mother are you
Comments: 13 Comments
June 1, 2013
Shame Amidshipmen
Gobs of semen lobbed
on a lolling face–don’t talk to me
of protecting and defending when a woman
drunk to sleep
is but a c(o)untry to be surrounded,
invaded, ground
into your back seat, thoroughly
pillaged.
Your compatriot,
your comrade in arms,
your fellow human.
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This was written, crazily, in response to Claudia Schoenfeld’s poetics prompt for dVerse Poets Pub about bathroom poetry – I was thinking of “shower” and this came up. I’m sorry. I’ve been very disturbed and outraged today reading about the investigation of a serial rape case involving midshipmen (primarily from the football team) at the US Naval Academy. Facts are not in, and I don’t mean to implicate the men involved in this particular incident, but lately there have been many reports of sexual abuse and harassment at the academies, and in the military generally. There are proud institutions that have garnered and deserved a great deal of respect historically, so it is pretty shocking. (At least to me.) Sorry this is so grim – I could not think of a graphic. Check out dVerse for much more cheerful poems today!
Categories: poetry, Uncategorized
Tags: a shower of shame poem, manicddaily, outrage poetics, sexual abuse in U.S. military academies, U.S. Naval Academy serial rape case
Comments: 40 Comments
May 31, 2013
Down
Sadness roosts on me,
brooding over
my ears; feathers, the stiff kind, tasting
of poke and copper and more dust
than a shaft of light could ever hope
to carry.
Eyes reach
for the motes
in their rafter downdrift
as if brilliance were
something that could be held
in dust, as if one might, in turn,
catch hold of it, as if it would still shine, caught.
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Here’s a draft poem inspired by Victoria Slotto’s prompt on synesthesia at dVerse Poets Pub (Meeting the Bar), though, honestly, I don’t think I’ve at all displayed any synesthesia (confused senses) here, just confusion.
Categories: poetry, Uncategorized
Tags: "Down" poem, Depressing roosting, Feathers poking copper, http://dVersepoets.com, I've got a chicken on my head, iPad art, manicddaily
Comments: 20 Comments
May 30, 2013
Favorite Book
The page was a palm
on heart’s forehead, a familiar bed,
sheet rumpled to my shape, spine
drawing a line
against the banged slam
of demand, flared inhalation
of expectation, the vacuum cleaner
that sucked up every crumb. The words,
like an animal that mothers the misplaced young,
kept me as their own.
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Here’s a short poem written for a With Real Toads prompt by the stiletto-sharp Mama Zen about a safe place. The challenge required a poem, I think, of 53 words or less. (This qualifies without the title.) And guess what–with the title, it’s 55 – so I’d ask you to also tell the G-Man.
(I’m not sure that the pic really goes with the poem, but I like the pic. Here’s another one – also not quite right for the poem but also one I kind of like. As always, all rights reserved.)
Categories: elephants, poetry, Uncategorized
Tags: a book in bed, drawing of elephant reading in bed, elephant with book in bed, http://withrealtoads.blogspot.com, manicddaily, poem about childhood favorite books, safe place poem, short poetry
Comments: 31 Comments
May 27, 2013
Here’s a strange sight I drew when looking out a plane window yesterday evening. Couldn’t quite catch it with my phone camera.
For those interested, the original drawing, scanned, is below. (I sometimes am not sure whether I improve these things with the photo app enhancements.) Feedback appreciated.
PS – I have had to post from mobile devices these days (when posting). I find that pictures do not always load properly, but if you click on the picture, you should be able to see it, if interested. Thanks!
Categories: elephants
Tags: anchor him by the arms--um..legs, elephant rescue, elephant to the rescue, manicddaily, plane wing rescue elephants, trunk to trunk
Comments: 13 Comments
May 23, 2013
Twilit
She longed for days of pluck and dapple
when mind shucked off Eve’s bite of apple
and consequences were but a rind
uncurled upon a platter fine
(which turned out to be a plate of moon
sleeved in porcelain for the afternoon).
But care malingered, with its pal, woe,
smuggling in the status quo;
though fingers on her forehead would
smooth what tangled up the good–
tuck hair, slow pace, scent sweet her wrist–
a fist-tanged cramp marked every twist.
And twist she must, and twist time did
till wrung thin as a katydid,
she broadcast to the high-shelved moon
a wheedle-pitched bowlegged tune,
that braised the eve in plaintive call
bemoaning both night and human fall.
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Here’s a belated draft poem for With Real Toads
for a prompt involving list words imagined by the wonderful Kerry O’Connor, the list of words supplied by yours truly, Manicddaily. It’s belated and a draft as I’ve had a very busy couple of days. I’m not a huge fan of writing poems from list, but everyone’s I’ve seen have been wonderful, and I enjoyed the exercise also. Check out the wonderful poets at With Real Toads.
Categories: poetry
Tags: http://withrealtoads.blogspot.cocm, list poem, manicddaily, no dappling in all shade, regret for being human, sleeved in porcelain, Twilit poem
Comments: 19 Comments
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