Today is Friendly Friday, Snow that Melts Somewhere said posing and here are twenty of the 66 photos of poseurs around me that I gathered immediately after hearing about the challenge. Plus, I know that the poetry month is finished but if you think it’s easy to stop with a poem a day habit, you’re wrong.
So first a fun experiment. As Angela van Son says in her post, there exists a poetry form called “N+& form”, where you replace every noun in an existing poem with the next, second next, third… seventh… or 15th word from the dictionary. And there is an online tool to help you. Does it sound as intriguing to you as it sounds to me? Do you want to feed the machine? You can tell that I just had to do it immediately.
This is the result. In my case it was N+2, each noun was replaced with the second next dictionary entry.
On the fender
This is my usual poseur,
alias by the fender.
On the other sidecar are
daredevils such as
workhorses,
geese,
dovetails,
trash truckle,
and the worst of all:
postmasters,
delphinium managements,
and wombs,
except that one
who brings my fool.
It is not about making sense, it’s about fooling around, playing a game, feeding the child in you. If this poem sounds slightly familiar, it is because only the nouns have changed and the rest remains the same. This is the first half of the poem that bestia wrote which I posted here.
He should know about posing… Here he is with friends and various poseurs in the vicinity and some from abroad.
I shall prove that I’m the best poseur around. Pleeeease. What she said. No, no, no, me, me, me! No contest. We are going to lie down a little while you work with that tractor. And then we’ll eat. Who’s the best poseur, huh? More light please? If we stay real still, nobody will notice that we’re posing. What? Can’t hear you… Too busy posing. Tralala, I’m a mean green posing machine! (Rome parrot, the other photos are from around my home in Tuscany.) When Ms. Jordan comes to town. Oh no, she found her match in Mr. Jabbar! Ms. sis is not posing. The only photo from Slovenia, Ljubljana Botanical Gardens. Neither is bestia posting here. Amore kept him calm during the loud Orbetello carnival procession. The last chance to win this contest. One, two… …Three. I win. What was that? Who are you? Who let you near with this camera? Talking about the posing queen. Who called? The detail of the winner.

For Friendly Friday Photo Challenge hosted by The Snow Melts Somewhere
bahahaha. you are superb ❤
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Hihih, thanks, Kara. 😀
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Those cows who are eating. Those expressions!
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Hehe, Claudia, they have figured out what it’s all about. 😀 Thank you!
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Love the poetry playing and the bunnies posing.
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Thank you, Susanne. So the bunnies are the winners for you. Bestia will find this hard to take. 😉
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Bestia is always the most beautiful creature in the room but it was merely the bunnies novelty that caught my eye. Scratch your good boy under the chin or behind his ears for me in apology.
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Ahh, of course, will do. Thank you! ❤
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haha! Such fun poses, Manja!!
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Thank you, Lois. 😀 I can see that apart from doors, various beasties are my favourite photo subject.
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These really made me laugh.
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Excellent, Bojana, that was the plan! 🙂 Thanks!
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Perfect post, Manja! Silliness combined with fabulous photographs! I love it! 👍
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Thank you, Sabine. I like having this kind of fun, putting words into various mouths. 😀
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I am glad you explained the poem. I read it first before the explanation and was quite puzzled. The strange thing is that it sort of worked.
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Haha, good to hear that you think the same, Emma. Not completely wacky. Thank you.
It was a bit like when my phone wrote a poem:
https://manjamaksimovic.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/i-am-not-responsible/
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I don’t even know where to start! So many great photos here and witty captions that made me chuckle heartily! Thank you!
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Hihi, you’re welcome, SMSW! I had much fun again. 😀 You inspired me, or better your talking cars did. I know – they asked to be featured. 😉
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They did!!!!
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A great bunch of posing pics and your captions made me chuckle. My favourite would have to be the cat pics. They always have that look of “what are you looking at” when you want to take their picture.
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Thank you, Sandra. 🙂 I like having this kind of mind-reading fun.
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😁
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So cheerful! You do so bring the smiles! 😀 Love the blanket on Bestia’s head ❤
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Thank you, Joey. 🙂 I try. And he brings smiles to me, so often.
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Oh this is fun. Photos and poetry games. I love them. (K)
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Thank you, K. 🙂 I like to have fun and various life forms certainly help. And I’m so glad to learn of this poetry form and tool.
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Fun posing! Just love the cows and the cat preparing to jump!
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Thank you, Leya. 🙂 I’m animal paparazzo. 😀
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Such a delightful post. All the silly creatures. My favorite, of course, was the bunnies. 🙂
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Thank you, J.D. 🙂 I like to have this kind of silly fun. I’ve got more bunnies, they are so cute when they freeze and think you can’t see them.
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