POETRY FRIDAY: TRA LA LA

This poem was the result of a poetry challenge that involved drawing a picture (I drew a woman singing "La La") and passing it around a circle with a new person drawing it after only seeing it for a few seconds. Kind of a "Cranium" (the board game) challenge, or a written game of "Telephone."  My drawing went around the circle  without changing too much, except that the original words "La la" which I had written next to the woman's mouth had morphed into "Blah blah." Assignment: Write a poem about what changed. So here is what I wrote, taking a few liberties with one La and and one Blah:

FROM LA TO BLAH

By the time La turned into Blah

she had left Woo-Woo so far behind

it had become Woe.  

It's so easy, we all know, 

for La to get lost, 

at least for awhile. 

And adding Tra to the La

only goes so far. About as far

as she could throw it on a gray day. 

Now she knows in her own way

it's a mood, and she wants to shake it

the way she shook a rattle and cooed

for her first born. 

But the urge to mourn is winning.
La, she has decided,

belongs at the beginning.

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