NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 28

 

(1)

I was taught:

try to put yourself

in their shoes

(2)

thinking

how they'd feel turns me

vegan

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 27

 

GRATITUDE

(1)

grateful

for friends who love me

anyway

(2)

memory –

garden after rain

mass birdsong

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 26

 

ZULU

Zulu –

I imagine dancers

drums ...

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 25

 

YANKEE

(1)

Aussie child, I sang

with no clue what it meant

Yankee Doodle

*

always wondered 

why he named his pony

after pasta

(2)

here

we call all Americans

Yanks

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 24

 

X-RAY

and yet

seeing right through you

I don’t see you

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 23

 

WHISKEY

the Scot in me loves

craggy rocks, rushing rivers

and single malt

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 22

 

VICTOR

(1)

to the victor –

a landscape of rubble

hospitals wrecked …

(2)

spoils of war –

surviving children grow 

new terrorists

(3)

the victor –

a planet with no more

people

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 21

UNIFORM

school uniforms

uncomfortable 

and ugly — why?

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 20

 

TANGO

takes two to …

this one clumsy – at least

on dance floor

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 19

 

SIERRA

Sierra –

wild west movies

from childhood

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 18

 

ROMEO

teenage passion 

immediately fervent –

but lasting?

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 17

 

QUEBEC

faraway 

places I’ll never see –

hearing the names

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 16

 

finally

letting my father

be imperfect

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 15

 

OSCAR

Oscar the Grouch 

how we love him – that secret 

self in us all

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 14

 

NOVEMBER

(1)

I love being

deep and sensual 

Scorpio 

(2)

I hear that song

the 12th of never 

as my birthday

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 13

 

friendship at first sight –

Michael nicknamed Mick tells me

‘You can call me Mike.’

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 12

 

LIMA

(1)

oh, Lima! –

where the locals ate

such warm smiles

(2)

comes to say g’day  –

Aussie nun long in Lima

hears our home accents

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 11

 

KILO

the scale

goes up and down –

yo-yo

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 10

JULIET

Lily James

worst Juliet ever –

yelling brat

NAHAIWRIMO Feb 9

 

INDIA

(1)

dreams of  India

hearing old family tales –

but I loved Nepal

(2)

teenage reading

swooning to Kashmiri Song –

by English poet

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 8

 

HOTEL

(1)

Christmas Eve

hotel staff disappear

drunks rule

(2)

outback pub

sign NoThongs Allowed –

blokes in singlets

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 7

 

GOLF

no need to play golf –

trailing my Grandma around

the beautiful green 

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 6

 

FOXTROT

the foxtrot –

easier than waltzing

(two left feet)

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 5

 

ECHO

his dead voice

on the old recording –

how it echoes!

NAHAIWRIMO 2024 Feb 4

 

DELTA

10 when I asked Dad,

‘Put my sixpence on Delta' –

who rarely lost, but …

(Champion Australian racehorse, racing 1949-52.)

• Public Domain
• File:Delta 1950 VRC St Leger Flemington Racecourse
  Jockey Neville Sellwood Trainer Maurice McCarten.jpg
• Created: 11 March 1950