Poetry Monday :: Big Birds Mandagsdigt :: Store fugle

Poetry Monday is a blogging challenge started by Diane @ On the Border in February 2017; 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.

Big birds is the prompt for today ... I have lots of big birds where I live, cranes and herons, kites and buzzards, and a stork now and then. But the biggest bird I know, lives in the Commonwealth of Letters. In Danish it's called a Kraxelicrox. In its original French he's Cracoucass, and in English he's a Howlibird, called after his cry: Howlihowlihowli! I must say that I find the Danish and French names more poetic, but maybe that's just me?

The Smurfs and the Howlibird
Remember the Smurfs, small blue men?
Living in mushrooms, all of them
One day two disobedient friends
went out with a potion and then
It hit a small fowl
and then came the cry: Howlihowlihowli!

The Howlibirds ruined the 'shrooms
Drove Smurfs from clotheslines and homes
And all that was heard, holy moly!
Was Howlihowlihowli!

Then old Papa Smurf had a plan
Made Howlibird small once again.
He lost all his feathers,
And then, even better
His Howlihowlihowli
Was just met with laughter and folly.


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Dagens stikord er Store fugle … Der er masser af store fugle, her hvor jeg bor: traner og hejrer, glenter og musvåger og en stork i ny og næ. Men den største fugl, jeg kender, lever i Bøgernes Rige. På dansk hedder den en Kraxelicrox. Dens oprindelige, farnske navn er Cracoucass, og på engelsk er den en Howlibird, opkaldt efter sit kald: Howlihowlihowli! Jeg må sige, at jeg synes, de danske og franske navne er mere poetiske, men måske er det bare mig?
Så er jeg heller ikke helt tilfreds med "Bøgernes rige" for "Commonwealth of Letters". Findes der en officiel fordanskning eller et parallelt udtryk? Jeg har ikke kunnet finde det.

Smølferne og Kraxelikroxen
To smølfer blev sendt afsted
en trylledrik at grave ned.
De undgik jo helst slid og slæb
Så de kastede den i en kløft.
Og tænkte der lander den blødt.
Men den endte så i et næb.

Om natten en kæmpefugl kom
og væltede svampene om.
Jog smølferne væk
halvdøde af skræk.
De gemte sig for en enorm
Kraxelikrox i et tårn.

Men Gammelsmølf han er jo smart,
han bryggede straks i en fart
en trylledrik der gjorde fuglen
så lille som musen hos uglen.

Kraxelikrox tog  afsted
Han tramped', han hakked' og stred.
Men nu var han lille,
vor's smølfer holdt gilde.
Og grined' af fuglen imens.
Og snart var den ulykke glemt.


- - - - - Coming Prompts // Kommende stikord - - - - -

November 9    Planes - Fly, høvle, plataner
November 16  Fairy tales - Eventyr
November 23 Earthquake - Jordskælv
November 30  Oasis - Oase/Oasis
December 7 Blue prints
December 14 Flounder
December 21 Yule
December 28 Erosion