Roberta Writes – Thursday Doors and W3 #95, personification #Thursdaydoors #poetry #photography

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This is the airport at Madikwe Game Reserve – yes really! The doors you see are to an office and the rest rooms.
Just to prove my point, this picture has the sign Madikwe Eastern Airstrip. I got nipped by black ants while taking this picture so I hope you appreciate it.
A herd of wildebeeste (or gnu) are having a meeting on the runway. Sorry Pilot, you have to wait your turn.
A large termite mound near the airstrip

W3 #95, Personification

II. Heather’s prompt guidelines

Humans often have opinions on most any topic. Let’s put a twist on this. Employ personification to write a poem from the point of view of an object. Maybe your teapot has an opinion on how you make tea or your door with all the comings and goings? Maybe snow has something to say?

Be creative and have fun!

Personification

Personification is a type of metaphor that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects and animals, such as emotions and behaviors.

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My poems are personification but I’m not sure my objects are quite what Heather intended. Oh well!

Mischief Makers (shadorma)

Mielie elves

With long hollow bones (note 1)

Look about

Pondering

Numerous mischievous plans

Pink toed feet ready

This is the bottom of one of our mielie plants. it is the only one where the support structure for the plant has grown through pink. The pink shoots reminded me of toes and so I wrote this poem about Mielie elves making plans and getting ready to run off and implement them.

Note 1 – Elves are believed to have hollow bones, like birds, to aid their flight.

Old Man (choka – 5/7/5/7/5/7/5/7/7)

Greying hair streaming

Sun journeys across the sky

Ample girth straining

At the buttons of his shirt

Burning bright and hot

Despite his advancing age

Slow later mornings

Nurture his remaining strength

Afternoons fiercely blazing

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  7. Wow–you truly live in a place so foreign to me. That termite mound!

    I love your photos. That plant does seem to have pink toes, and the sun is truly blazing.

    “Ample girth straining

    At the buttons of his shirt”

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  11. I appreciate the effort (and apparent danger) in getting those photo, Robbie. The airstrip seems to coexist with its surroundings. I like that. The mielie plant is interesting, and I agree about the pink toes. I can see why you chose that plant to work with.

    I hope you’re having a great weekend.

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  15. Beautiful sunset. That is a very basic airport terminal. However, it is much more sophisticated than airports I flown into on the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona and Southern Utah.

    I knew that was a herd of gnu on the runway before I read your caption. I’ve used software licensed under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU copyleft GPL (general public license) for 30 years. The FSF GNU is not an acronym. It’s the animal like in your photo.

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      1. Our desert southwest and South Africa are quite similar to each other. A lot of the non-native plants that are use for landscaping out here come from South Africa.

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  17. Love the airport. We have a lot of ranch runways around here and most of those don’t even have a building. They do get animals on the runway. Even in Sun Valley, they have to chase deer off the runway. I also love your elf plant.

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  18. Great photos and poetry, Robbie! Those gnus on the airport runway remind of flying into Oxnard, California in a prop plane so small we could talk to the pilot. As we were getting ready to land, he laughed about trying to land there once and there was a heard of cows on the runway. 😁

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  20. I enjoyed your post. Sorry you had to endure bites to get these awesome pictures of the airport. They give a real sense of the place. Some wonderful images in your writing to personify the sky (grey hair streaming, sun journeying) and the plant (pink toed feet ready). Thanks for participating.

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  23. Love the poetry. You really excel with verse, Robbie.

    The pictures are mind-blowing, especially of the airport. And my mouth dropped looking at that termite mound. It made me want to run and hide!

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  31. Wonderful poems and photos, Robbie, and I just read that the photos were for small airplanes which put me at ease. And what a termite mound! And the herd of wildebeests on the runway cracked me up. I thought that couldn’t be an international airport. 🙂 🧡

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  33. Yikes! I had to read that twice to make sure I’d got it right! What an unusual and rather minimalist airport and well done for braving the ants for the photo! I enjoyed your poetry and really felt the personification of the ‘toed- plant. Mischievous looking indeed – and ready to head into The Day of the Triffids territory!😀 Hope you’ve had a great weekend, Robbie and all set for the week ahead! xx

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