mandag den 1. april 2024

Poetry Monday :: Shelf

Poetry Monday is a challenge, normally hosted by Diane at On the Border. But from Monday, January 8, 2024, Messymimi and I have conspired to keep the chair warm for her, as she's taking a break due to health issues. We will each set the topics for one month, I began with January, Mimi supplied for February, and so on until Diane returns.

Today is
Shelf.

The absolute only thing Shelf made me think of was Elf on a Shelf. Not really a thing I'm keen on, and singularly inappropriate for Easter Monday. So forgive me for fooling around and making a nonsense poem.


An elf on a shelf
Is not good for Easter
This says itself.

An egg in a shell
Is just right for Easter
Clear as a bell

But gifts from elfs
And baskets of eggs
Are for all that helps -
With hands and with legs -
To weed in my bed
And knead all the bread
For Easter means guests
And wonderful feasts!

Next Monday: Order


Because I saw at Mimi's blog that today is Anne McCaffrey's birthday I bring you two versions of the cover art of my favourite book in Chronicles of Pern - Dragonsong. Music, drama and dragons, can you improve on that? I think not.

Cover art from 1977

Cover art from the edition I read first - also the Danish edition looks the same.

8 kommentarer:

  1. I love the Chronicles of Pern - and still reread them at intervals.

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    1. So do I. some of the later irritates me, what with their glaring inconsistencies, but the first - and among those Harper's Hall - are pure joyous escapism :D

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  2. I enjoyed your poem and hope you did have a nice Easter celebration.

    You used the word whimsy on my blog, and that's the exact thing I was going for.

    I've seen those books and keep meaning to read them someday.

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    1. Thank you, we had a joyous Easter.
      Whimsy is such a good word. I'm happy you found it fitting.
      Please do read the Pern books. They are a deligth, and the Harper's Hall trilogy is among the best, even if it's meant for kids, I still read it now and then.

      Slet
  3. The books sound wonderful, I must see if I can find copies that I can give to the girls when they get older. After I read them of course.
    I like your poem.

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    1. It should be possible to find those books second hand. Even here they are sometimes to be found at flea markets. If you never read them, you're in for a treat!

      Slet
  4. My library has the first couple in the Harper Hall series as well as what I think is the first couple of books - Dragonflight/quest. Would it be better to read the first two before going on to the HH ones

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    1. Yes. Dragonflight/quest is the main storyline - HH will be much easier to understand having read those.

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