[evilflea] Day 1: Stay At Home Dad #NaNoWriMo2016 #NaPoWriMo #NaPoRhymo

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Looking after an eight month old at home doesn't give me much time to write 50,000 words in a month, so I've decided that instead of trying to take part in NaNoWriMo this year, I'm going to try to write poetry every day. NaPoWriMo. Or, as I like to call it, NaPoRhymo.

I nearly didn't manage to do it on Day 1, I ended up writing this at 11.30pm:

Stay At Home Dad

There's sick all down my jumper,
And there's poo upon my shoe.
I've got jeans ingrained with corn snacks
And I'm awake each night at two.

Although, it's a delight each time
My daughter does something that's new,
I have to peer around the corner
When I'm sat upon the loo.

So forgive me if the meter
Of this poem is askew,
I'm a little out of practice,
Something something something, Sue(?)

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As a bonus, here's the poem I wrote on Day 0 (31st October):

An Ode To Iris (Nothing Much Rhymes With Iris)

We named our daughter Iris
Before I tried to write this
About what she, a delight, is.

She doesn't know how dangerous fire is.
I hope she doesn't get tonsillitis.
In olden times this would have been written on papyrus.

Yes, I'm aware of how this dire is.

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Posted By Blogger to evilflea on 11/02/2016 02:50:00 pm