For her Friendly Friday challenge, Amanda down under in her finally no longer so dry land of plenty says raindrops. Let’s deal with the poem first, and then teardrops will fall. I mean, raindrops will follow.
Challenge 12: Each student had to bring in two objects from home to a dream poetry workshop, give away or destroy the significant object, and write a poem about loving the dull thing. “Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem about a dull thing that you own, and why (and how) you love it. Alternatively, what would it mean to you to give away or destroy a significant object?”
Significantly drab
I’ve always had twisted concepts
of possession
and value.
Suppose I bring
my “Shut up bitch” shirt,
see-through, torn and stretched,
and my first ever digital camera,
a rather bulky
but cute little Canon.
Shun the drab,
love the significant.
Precious camera, dull shirt?
Or should that be: my favourite shirt,
bought in Venice Beach,
that saw Iggy and so many others live,
and my first, now forgotten camera
that hasn’t seen any batteries
since I got a new Nikon?
Precious shirt, dull camera?
Love the drab,
shun the significant.
Frankly, I’d gladly dump both.
No – let me tear up the shirt
and give the camera to the cameraless.
It brought me much joy.
It was a present for my ex.
I’m sly like that.
Ask my mother
how she gifted a doll to her brother.
He was given an hour to play with it.
What?
Did you expect me to bring
my laptop?
Love insignificance.
Shun the bard.
She is unreliable.
Luckily, at least over here, the rain is reliable, for now. Even more than that: today is the second Friday in a row that I was unable to meet my new friend who has painted me in a fascinating new location because of the rain.
These are old photos though. If it sees rain, my camera goes in hiding. While the first six are all different shots, in the last line there are two different edits of the first – unedited – photo which some of you will remember from my second blog.
For Friendly Friday Photo Challenge hosted by Amanda from Something to Ponder About
and for Day 12 of NaPoWriMo
Beautiful raindrops, Manja.
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Oh Lois, why did WordPress think your comment is spam? So strange. Anyway, I rescued it. 🙂 Thank you so much!
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How insulting, right?! 😉 Thanks, Manja. I think they are gorgeous.
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Beautiful photos! And cheeky verse. Happy Friday to you.
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Thank you so much, Denny! 🙂 I wish you a loveliest spring.
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Fun poem and fantastic study of raindrops, Manja. Your macros of this colorless substance called rain are really something to see. With the advent of mobile phones, the cameraless could be considered a dying breed.
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Thank you, Amanda. Ahh, I never take photos with my phone (unless it’s urgent and I’m without my camera) because results are really bad so I forget that nowadays everybody can take photos and post them… Wait… And they do! 😀
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It is popular to do so, Manja but professionals always use real cameras!!
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Beautiful macros!
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Thank you, Maria! 🙂 Always welcome!
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Lovely, cheekily subversive poem. My favorite kind. I love the detail of your photos too. You have a gifted eye for them.
Oh, and I really dig your shirt. Nice to put a face with the artist. 😉
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Thanks, Barry. I guess you missed Day Nine with so many photos of me that I won’t be posting many me’s any more. But that was an experiment. The shirt is really from California. My only time in the USA ages ago.
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Ha. Love that shirt.
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Heheh. I noticed such a change when I wore it to a gig in Rome – compared to Slovenia, Austria, Germany. Nobody read what it says. 😀 (Oh, did you see, we were both published by VV! My first time! Yiha!)
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No kidding. Let me see. Telling you, guys are great. Very supportive. Congrats, dear. So happy for you.
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Oh damn, this is so good Manja. Loved it! Way to go girl.
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❤ Thank youuu! I like your green dream too.
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🙂 Thanks.
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Beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. I love the raindrops too! (K)
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Thank you, K. I don’t often take photos of them and yet there are whole new worlds inside them.
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Bring on the microscopes!
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Love the shirt. It’s got attitude. 😁
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Hihih, thank you, Donna. That’s California for you. 😉 I bought another one that day in that shop on Venice Beach. It said “Which part of no didn’t you understand?”
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Very thoughtful poem. Significant and drab are in the eye of the beholder as they say. Love the water droplet photos – oldies but goodies
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Thank you so much, Lisa. Look up, this exact proverb has been mentioned in a comment already. Great minds! I’m glad you have found it worthy.
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Gorgeous raindrops! The fourth and last two photos are my favorite ones. I also loved your poem! 🙂
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Thank you very much, Sabine. 🙂 I’m glad you liked what you saw and read.
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You’re welcome, Manja! 😊
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Fantastic verse and lovely pics!
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Thank you so much, Punam. 🙂 Always welcome!
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My pleasure, Manja. 🙂
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Congrats on getting the NaPoWriMo feature! 🙂 😀 😀
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Congrats o being featured! I hope people will find the time to browse through your other ones and admire the poems, or the pictures, or both 🙂 I know it’s worth it, that’s why I mention it!
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That’s mighty kind, Angela. ❤ Thank you so much!
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Thanks, Barry. Appreciate the support.
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Isn’t it funny, as you said, that cameras stay hidden in the rain? The sun makes everything look so much better. But maybe these moments after the rain are when the camera should be taken for an outing. Such beauty in the raindrops!
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You’re so right, Suvi. I think the main reason is that we don’t wish them to get wet. 🙂 Over here raindrops don’t stay alive long, or puddles, the warm air takes them. But I’ll be persistent.
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Congratulations on being featured! I like the raindrop photos, too.
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Thank you so much, Merril. It was a lovely surprise. 🙂
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A great poem. Very profound thinking there. Love the photos too.
And that t-shirt. 🙂 I notice it’s hiding under a coat until needed though, and the scarf is handy for the same purpose too.
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Hihi, you notice things, don’t you, Iris? 🙂 Thanks, I’m glad you call it profound. Always welcome.
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bahahaha. you are superb. ❤
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❤ ❤ ❤ Thank you, cara Kara!
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Who can resist a shot of rain on leaves?
I still have all my old cameras..broken or working. Three or four digital indigents as well as my still-working but unused for 18 years two film cameras–Canon with all the lenses. Do they have a museum of old cameras? Does anyone still use film?
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Hehe, Judy, I’m sure that there are many such museums. Or you can start one! Thanks!
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Congratulations on having your poem picked for NaPoWriMo. That is so cool. Were you excited?
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Oh yes, I thought it was just wishful thinking and my name was not really there. 😀 Thank you!
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The bard is unreliable, indeed 🙂 . Well done, Manja. I love the poem, so glad you were the featured participant with this one.
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Thank you so much, Nataša! 🙂 I’m glad too! Such a surprise!
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Bitches have the best tee shirts! 😉
Great shots, so pretty — for now it’s not been a rainy spring. We’ll see how it goes. Three years we had too wet of a spring.
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Thanks, Joey. Buying these was a fun California moment. 😀 I also bought a pin saying “I want a light, not a lecture”. I was still smoking at the time and they were unforgiving over there.
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Haha!
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and congratulations!!!!
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Thank you, K. 🙂 It was a lovely surprise.
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So love the header photo Manja 🙂
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Thank you so much, Bushboy. 🙂 Good to see you hop around my blog.
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Gorgeous raindrops MM! ❤️ I hope you were able to meet up with Donna today! Finally 😊
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Yesss! 🙂 It was most lovely. Got photos, now writing poem. 😉 Thank you, SMSW!
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