Poetry Monday :: Lonely ~ Opdateret med dansk digt

Service announcement:

Of course yesterday was not the 4th of August - for which date we have the prompt Lonely.
It was July - still is - and the date, as announced by my date header, is the 28th.
I blame my old eyes, new PC, and crazy times.
Rightfully the prompt should have been Building, the last from Mimi and me. It seems this prompt disappeared as we went from June to July.
I'm not going to write a new poem for this Monday, but instead write a poem next Monday with Building as a prompt. And from now I promise to be more careful in my copy/pasting of prompts - be it for Poetry Monday or for Words for Wednesday!

Dear readers ... on repeat: MotherOwl's new, old computer still needs some working out. It's tough times upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 11. In a few days more my computer savvy son comes by - he works at a helpdesk, so ...  I seriously hope I'm done strongarming it into doing what I want it to do -  instead of me doing what it wants me to do.

Reading of blogs, commenting and hopefully writing will slowly resume.

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Kære læsere, dette er en genudsendelse: Uglemors  nye, brugte computer volder stadig knuder - det er tough times at gå fra Windows 7 til Windows 11. Om et par dage  komer min computerekspert-søn hjem på besøg - det er det, han atrbejder med, så ... vi skulle gerne få computeren til at gøre som jeg ønsker og ikke den anden vej rundt.
     Blogging, læsning af blogs og kommentarer er langsomt gået i gang.

Mandagsdigtet er en blogleg, som Mimi fra Messymimi's Meanderings og jeg har overtaget - midlertidigt håber vi - fra Diane, der slapper af og rejser verden rundt med sin mand. Vi håber hun er parat til at tage over igen, når hun kommer hjem.

Dagens tema er: Ensom, eller enlig, og der skal nok komme noget på dansk senere, men lige nu skinner solen, så jeg er smuttet!

For at kunne fortsætte denne blogleg uden at overanstrenge os selv – vi vil skrive digte og fjolle lidt rundt, ikke rive os i håret over at have glemt at finde nye på stikord - har Mimi og jeg besluttet at vi fra den 4. august hægter os på gruppen  365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts. Det er en Facebook-gruppe, der udgiver et stikord til hver dag i året, men bare rolig, stikordene vil stadig være at finde både her og på Mimis blog.

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Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is taking a break for health and relaxation, travelling the world with her husband as far as we can tell.
 
We just hope she's going to take back over once she returns home.

In order to to continue this challenge and not overexert ourselves - we want to write poems and goof around a bit, not spend time pulling out our hairs over forgetting to find new prompts - Mimi and I have decided to latch onto the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog.

  I have something more to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
  Half - if not more - the fun of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.

Today's subject in my world! is Lonely.


Late Summer's Lament

One lonely swallow does not make spring
It takes a flock for Spring to bring.
I hope the geese don't do the same thing
to fall
because this time yesterday I saw
them all
fly Southward while I watched in awe.
But y'all
It's far too early now for fall
I want to swim, to run and drink
the sun.
In autumn with its winds and pall
no fun
is to be had by hungry me - cold days stink!


Og på dansk

Sensommerklage
En enlig svale gør ingen sommer.
Jeg håber ikke at vinter kommer,
når man ser flokke af gæs i skyen.
Det så jeg nemlig i går i byen,
og det er slet ikke tid endnu
til regn og kulde - åh gys og gru!
Jeg vil ha' lidt mere sol på næsen,
for jeg er sulten og ikke kræsen,
jeg spiser hver en bid sol og blåt
og samler forsvar mod vintergråt.


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Coming prompts:
Aug 4 Lonely  - The first one from he 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts.
Aug 11 Biscuits
Aug 18 Don’t be afraid
Aug 25 Wonderful
Sep 1 Under the sea
Sep 8 Big City
Sep 15 Tea fusing
Sep 22 Kitchen
Sep 29 Snuggles