Friendly Friday posing skills

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.
  

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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.

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  I shall prove that I’m the best poseur around.

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  Pleeeease.

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  What she said.

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  No, no, no, me, me, me!

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  No contest. We are going to lie down a little while you work with that tractor.

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  And then we’ll eat.

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  Who’s the best poseur, huh? More light please?

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  If we stay real still, nobody will notice that we’re posing.

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  What? Can’t hear you… Too busy posing.

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  Tralala, I’m a mean green posing machine! (Rome parrot, the other photos are from around my home in Tuscany.)

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  When Ms. Jordan comes to town.

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  Oh no, she found her match in Mr. Jabbar!

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  Ms. sis is not posing. The only photo from Slovenia, Ljubljana Botanical Gardens.

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  Neither is bestia posting here. Amore kept him calm during the loud Orbetello carnival procession.

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  The last chance to win this contest. One, two…

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  …Three. I win.

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  What was that? Who are you? Who let you near with this camera?

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  Talking about the posing queen.

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  Who called?

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  The detail of the winner.

For Friendly Friday Photo Challenge hosted by The Snow Melts Somewhere

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