Poetry Monday :: Water (Blogtober 6)

Dagens stikord for Mandagsdigtet er vand. Regn er også vand, og i lørdags lovede jeg at måske komme med en engelsk gendigtning af Cirkelines Regnvejrssang. Den er så her.

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This week's prompt for Poetry Monday is Water taken from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group.

Rain is also water, and Saturday I posted this:

promising that maybe an English translation would follow. Well here it is.

It is a song from my childhood, from TV for kids. The elf Cirkeline, and her friends the mice Frederik (blue stripes), Ingolf (red stripes), Susse and Musse had lots of adventures in the garden belonging to the house of the Artist, who drew them. Cirkeline slept in a matchbox on the desk of the Artist, and kept it nice. Every chapter started with her cleaning the desk and then going down by a rope attached to a thumb tack on the edge of the desk.

The songs were simple tunes children could sing along with - and make more verses for if they felt so inclined. Listen here:

The two digging ones are called Mr. P and Mr. B.
The Danish text tells you that you are only allowed to watch this video on YouTube. To do so, click the link.

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Taken from the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and other Arts group.

Oct 13 Contrast
Oct 20 Side profile of a person
Oct 27 Journey between stars
Nov 3 Funeral
Nov 10 Dismembered
Nov 17 In a cave
Nov 24 Pot of tea for two