Yeah! My second National Poetry Writing Month is safely under the roof. On the last day they managed to minimise me, I guess.
But first, if I ever have my own reading, this is how it will start:

Challenge 30: “I’d like you to try your hand at a minimalist poem, … a poem that is quite short, and that doesn’t really try to tell a story, but to quickly and simply capture an image or emotion.”
Funny, just yesterday I demonstrated how to turn minimalist photography into maximalist. Which is what I’ll always be.
But today I obey. It’s the last day, after all.
Bath on the path.
Pack on the back.
Bath on the pack.
Back on the path.
Pat on the back.
We all deserve it. Thank you for reading, liking, commenting, sighing, cursing and all in between, and especially for all the prompts. You have made the poetry world go around this April. See you next year for sure but also some time during, I hope. Be well!
And for my regular visitors a note that in May I will take it easy. Travel to Slovenia, birthday and just chilling are planned.
Yesterday we returned from Rome and this is what I found in my Tuscan countryside on this beautiful morning: more flowers, shades of green and blues, cats, sunshine. Not a bad way to be.
Olive trees plus poppies. Poppies plus Monta Amiata, the peak on the right. Various layers of green on green. Align this! Railway, lake Burano, the sea, the ship to Corsica (maybe). Happy cats. Another one, heavily chilling. The pretty house. Vaguely out of Rasmus and the Vagabond. The house with the best carpet. Selva Nera. On the right. On the left. I had to step out. Happy country. Happy bestia. Just happy.

Congratulations on a month of poetry well crafted. Thank you for sharing a pop of spring with me. Miss the changing seasons here in the tropics.
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Thank you so much, Lisa. 🙂 It was fun but also a bit of work. I’m glad I could send you some spring. These views this morning made me giddy.
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Well congrats. That was really sth.
Love the olive trees and poppies.
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Thank you, Bojana. This morning was glorious. I didn’t even mind that much that I had only bestia with me. Learning… About poetry too. Thanks for your warm and constant support, means a lot. ❤
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It’s a process, like any other. We learn all our lives, don’t we?
Welcome.
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Congrats, Manja – well done! And glad to see you are all Happy!
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Thank you so much, Leya. Today has been a happy day. With such morning it’s not strange.
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Congratulations!
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Thank you, Dan! Happy incoming May!
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You did it! You are superb!
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Kara mia, thank you. Your support is like Nutella just without the pesky palm oil. ❤
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Happy Day 30! After all you poeting, reading and commenting, you deserve a rest! Enjoy your May!
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Thank you, Maggie. 🙂 Don’t we all! But knowing myself I’ll be kept nicely busy. Just possible with others things. Even though I have a poem to write for a friend… May is my favourite month in which I will be not quite 50 yet. 😀 I hope it’s good for you as well.
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Oh those blue skies! Thanks for always making me smile.
K.
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This is great to hear, K. This morning was such a… gift.
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Such a beautiful meadow.
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It really is, Scooj, thank you. The view is from the road I don’t take as often and it’s always a great surprise. Different kind of road art. 🙂
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Awesome!!Breathtaking photos Manja…so serene:)
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Thank you, Moon. 🙂 No wonder that I’ve been feeling serene all day.
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Fun poem. Ahhh.. Done for one more year. How many years have you been doing it? I have to check, but I think 6 years for me. One year I may have quite half way through because so many of the prompts were repeats of earlier years..
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I say in the first sentence – it was my second year. 🙂 You said seven years the last time, I believe. In any case – long! Well done, Judy, and as I said over there, thank you for your support.
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Well, either i am overestimating or underestimating.. Both wrong and right either way!
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Well done (although I was away for the first part of the challenge) I loved the cartoon, by the way!
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Thank you, Emma. I crack up every time I look at it. 😀
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Congratulations Manja! I really enjoyed the posts I read. Intend to catch up with the rest soon. 😊
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Thank you so much, Punam, and well done to you as well and to all of us! Always welcome.
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You are welcome! 😊
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I have some doors I’d like to share with you. How can we arrange that?
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Ooo! That’s great news. 🙂 Would you like that I post them on my blog? Why don’t you post them on a Thursday and share your link with the community? It’s tomorrow, by the way. Norman Frampton gathers links. His tomorrow’s post will appear on his blog here: https://miscellaneousmusingsofamiddleagedmind.wordpress.com/
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That sounds like a good idea. if I find inspiration somewhere I could write a door poem for the post, or a poem inspired by some of the doors.
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Everything goes! Norm is Canadian. 😀 He visited us last autumn with his wife. Properly cool folks.
Tomorrow you can share only one door, or a few, and save others for other Thursdays (even though I tend to cram my posts with several).
Yeah! It will be fun to have you join us. It’s nothing pressing – no need to take part every week. Just please go there after his post is live and leave a comment with your link to be sure. Sometimes pingbacks don’t work.
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https://unassortedstories.wordpress.com/2019/05/02/to-ds-door/
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I added the translation of the song refrain because it fits in with some of your posts. I do believe it shows that professional translators are needed 🙂
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😀 Some things, such as word play, are so hard to translate. You did just fine.
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