Poetry Monday :: Tractor & Belated Colour26

Every Monday is Poetry Monday.

Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017, and later it was picked up by Delores @ Mumblings and Jenny @ Procrastinating Donkey.
    Then Dolores took over the hosting duties; but when Dolores left the internet, Diane returned and took over hosting duty again with her and Jenny taking turns suggesting a topic.
    Now Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over, as Diane seems disinclined to take up Poetry Monday again.

The prompts are now taken from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a (drawing) prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog. And they mostly lend themselves perfectly for poeming as well. 

  I have something 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 the prompt is Tractor. This is an easy prompt for me. The steers outside are filled with tractors, red Tractors, green tractors, blue tractors, all lugging a trailer, sometimes in the same colour as the tractor, but often not. The other day two busy tractors crossed one another outside de our house, going slowly in the narrow road. One loaded, one empty, one red tractor with a green trailer, one green tractor with a red trailer. I do not know why we found this so fun, but it was ... just one of these things.

The blue tractors are mostly the excat blue I found for the Colour of the Month.

Just outside my door
I see tractors galore
It is harvest time

Blue tractors that fill
trailers to the gills
It is harvest time

They swing and they sway
throughout the day
It's harvest time

The grain that it spills
end up in the bills
of sparrows and tits.

We hear the combine
from seven to nine
around the clock.

Outside my door
there's tractors galore.
It's harvest time.

- - - - - - -UPCOMING Prompts: - - - - - - -

August  10  - Bluebell
August  17  - Sunny days
August  24  - Photography
August  31  - Xerophyte.

Words for Wednesday ~ July 29

The original Words for Wednesday was begun by Delores and eventually taken over as a moveable feast with many participants supplying the Words.
When Delores closed her blog forever due to other problems, Elephant's Child (Sue) took over the role of coordinator.
Now, after Sue's demise, River has taken the mantle of coordinator upon her shoulders.

No matter what, how, where or who the aim of the words is to encourage us to write. Poems, stories, subtitles, tales, jokes, haiku, crosswords, puns, ... you're the boss.
Use all Words, some Words, one Word, or even none of them if that makes your creative juices flow. Anything goes, only please nothing rude or vulgar.

This month the words are given by me (Charlotte - MotherOwl) and can be found at River's blog: Drifting through Life

If you are posting an entry on your own blog, please leave a comment on River's blog, then we can come along and read it and add a few encouraging words.

It is also a challenge, where the old saying "The more the merrier" holds true.

So Please, remember to follow the links, go back and read other peoples' stories. And please leave a comment after reading. Challenges like this one thrives on interaction, feedback and encouragement. And we ALL need encouragement.

And for today we were given:  
Snake,
Linen,
Cake,
Tired,
Letter,
Clip
and/or
Brush,
Matter,
Rake,
Blue,
Bush,
Read

Wednesday Hex strikes again. Today, Thursday, I used all the words for another Here & now, only not "matter" ... and for once not in the order they were given.
    This was my last Wednesday supplying the Words for Wednesday. As I wrote and sent them to River back in December last year, they were as new to me as they were to you. In August the Words will be suppiled by Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings, and will go live there as well as at River's Drifting through Life 

Yesterday the first thing on the agenda was PE, as every Wednesday. I passed a dead snake on my way to the bus stop. It was quite dead and totally flat, run over by several cars. Poor guy.
    After PE, I hurried to the train station on my tired legs and caught a train direction Hillerød.

Yesterday we visited my mother's grave for her birthday.
    We met up with three of the Owlets and we brushed up the grave site, where also the Owlets' paternal grandparents are buried. We straightened up the headstones, weeded, planted some new orange, white and blue flowers, laid the flagstones back in place, and raked the gravel. It looked nice when we were done.
    Then we said some prayers and went leisurely back through the graveyard, reading some of the headstones - many of them commemorating former friends or acquaintances - wondering in one place why all the letters were polished up, but not the hyphens, We ended up in a nearby place where we ate pizza, spaghetti. ice-cream and cake, and reminisced and talked.
    We travelled home by a bus, two trains and finally yet another bus, where one Owlet and I ran to catch it, and the Writer as always biked home.
    Home again I took down the bed linen from the clothes line. Then I fed the hens some weeds, removing part of the brush growing under the clothes lines.
    As one of the last thing, as I sat down at my computer to check my e-mail, I found the missing hair clip - it had been sitting right there, hidden in plain sight - for two weeks' time. Big Sis still has the other one, but she's away travelling.

Colour of the Month ~ August ~ Månedens farve

The colour of the Month for August is  ~  Månedens farve for august er

For august fik jeg endnu en grøn, så jeg lod systemet vælge en anden. Denne fine blå.
For August I originally had yet a green, after finishing, I tried another, and got this pretty blue.

Poetry Monday :: Relief

Every Monday is Poetry Monday.

Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017, and later it was picked up by Delores @ Mumblings and Jenny @ Procrastinating Donkey.
    Then Dolores took over the hosting duties; but when Dolores left the internet, Diane returned and took over hosting duty again with her and Jenny taking turns suggesting a topic.
    Now Mimi @ Messymimi's Meanderings and I have taken over, as Diane has returned home from her travels some time ago, but seems disinclined to take up Poetry Monday again.

I find this sad, because she reached many more poetry-writing bloggers than Mimi and I do.

The prompts are now taken from 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group. This is a Facebook group with a (drawing) prompt for each day of the year, but no worries, the prompts will still be here and at Mimi's blog. And they mostly lend themselves perfectly for poeming as well. 

  I have something 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 prompt is Relief

Sometimes, when I have no idea what to do with the words, I simply find all words that rhyme with it, and mostly a nonsense verse takes form. This happened today as well.
    I asked for rhymes on Relief - which I suspect can be pronounced in two different ways with different meanings. And I was given: Belief  - Broadleaf  - Debrief  - Flyleaf  - Khalif  - Longleaf  - Massif  - Motif - Serif -  and  Beef!
Longleaf and Broadleaf sounds like pipeweeds  from the Hobbit, I looked them up, and the truth is more plain.

It turned into this:

Last week we had beef
now it's a relief
to write of a leaf

Although my belief
is that the Khalif
would rather have beef
than slender longleaf.

I see a motif
in every broadleaf
oh, what a relief!

- - - - - - -UPCOMING Prompts: - - - - - - -

August  3 -  Tractors
August  10  - Bluebell
August  17  - Sunny days
August  24  - Photography
August  31  - Xerophyte.

Sunday Selection ~ Rubber Ducks Søndagsbilleder ~ Badeænder

Back then, over 30 years ago, when I painted the bathroom for the first time, stencil painting was all the rage. I wanted to give it a go too, but stencils were ridiculously expensive. I got a couple for free from the paint shop, but they weren’t all that inspiring. So I simply made my own. Some sheets for an  overhead projector, flotsam from some failed project was perfectly good – stiff and easy to draw on. So I had a bit of fun and made some flowers for the stairs – perhaps more on that later – and a rubber duck with waves for our bathroom.
 

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Dengang for over 30 år siden, da jeg malede badeværeslet første gang, var stencilmaling det store nyt. Jeg ville også, men stencils var hammerdyre. Jeg fik et par gratis hos farvehandleren, medn de var ikke så inspirerende. Så jeg lavede simpelthen mine egne. Overhead-plastik, som vi havde fra et eller andet skibbrudent projekt, var godt og stift og til at tegne på. Så jeg legede og fabrikerede en blomsterremse til trappe - måkske mere om den senere - og en badeand med bølger til vores badeværelse.

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    Unfortunately, the stencil paint had hardened up, and unlike back then, paint is now ridiculously expensive and stencils quite cheap, so I bought ordinary paint instead. It doesn’t give quite as good a result, but it’s not too bad. Yes, I still had the old stencils. I even knew where!
    We simply have to have rubber ducks in our bathroom!

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    Stencilmalingen var desværre stivnet, og i modsætning til dengang, er maling nu hammerdyr og stencils til at betale, så jeg købte almindelig maling i stedet. Det giver ikke helt så godt et resultat, men det er til at leve med. Ja, jeg havde stadigvæk de gamle stencils, og jeg kunne endda huske, hvor de var!
    Badeænder skal der være på vores badeværelse!

Here I begin, waves, a rubber duck, waves, a rubber duck, and so on.

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Her er starten, En blå bølge, en badeand, en blå bølge, nok en and, og så videre.

And the end reaching the other side of the window. One of the ducks to the right looks not quite right

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Og her slutter jeg ved den anden side af vinduet. En af badeænderne ser vist  lidt sær ud ...

Oh, it's green, and swimming the wrong way too. This is new, I wonder what the Owlets will say, when they come home visiting ...

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Den er grøn, og så svømmer den den gale vej. Det er nyt. Gad vide hvad Ugleungerne siger til det, når de kommer på besøg.

The one on the small cupboard turned green as well. It's an opposite duck, maybe.
    If you embiggen this photo you might be able to see the shadow of two leaves and an owl; old stickers, that I peeled off after they sat there for very long. The cupboard catches the morning sun and has turned ivory over the years. Not so the parts cowered by leaves and owl.
    This happened Wednesday and Thursday.

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Den på skabet blev også en grøn på tværs-badeand.
    Hvis man forstørrer billedet, kan det være, at man kan se aftrykket af to blade og en ugle. Der har siddet nogle klistermærker i mange år. Skabet får morgensol og derfor var klistermærkerne afblegede - og skabet gulnet - med tiden.
    Det var onsdag og torsdag.

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Friday I put everything back in place, also this rubber duckling, living in the window sill.

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Fredag satte jeg alting på plads. Også denne lille grønne badeand, der bor i vindueskarmen.

And I saw why I was not fully satisfied with the look of the two green ducks ... their bill should be red, not green! Try again!

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Og jeg fandt ud af, hvorfor jeg ikke var tilfreds med de malede, grønne ænder. Deres næb skal jo være røde! På den igen!

Ducks not quite in a row, now red-billed.

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Ænder på rad og række, sådan da. Nu med røde næb.

And the one on the cupboard. I think this is the nicest of the lot.

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Og så den på skabet, det er nok den mest vellykkede af dem alle sammen.

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I think that those ducks count for the colour of the month as well.

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Mon ikke de ænder tæller for månedens farve også? Det synes jeg.