Lost in Translation

 

Ninja Foodi XL Pro,

the monster in her kitchen 

Came all the way from China,

Jinan, Shandong

to be exact,

then to San Diago, California,

then by FedEx into Canada

Her point being that

somewhere along the way

there is a loss in

translation.

It/he burns everything

She reads the instructions,

written in English

but he/it still burns everything 

There are instructions in

five languages 

Perhaps one of those is

the right one

If she knew some one who

spoke Spanish or German

maybe they could help

Her friends love their

Ninjas

Their chicken wings are crispy

their roasts just the right 

medium well done,

pizzas to die for,,,

Wait a minute!

She stops to ponder

Why IS that?

You don’t 

 suppose it’s HER mind

lost in translation

Ellecee

Inspiration from

Good Universe Next Door

23. The sum of its parts
Consider the objects in your home. 

How did they get there? What resources 

were required to produce them?

 Write a poem about the origin of one or 

more of your possessions. / 

Who Knows

 Weekend gridlock takes toll on Halifax bridge traffic

Author of the article:

Francis Campbell

Published Mar 29, 2025  •  Last updated 3 days ago  •  3 minute read on

  Now what!

There goes her trip to 

the city!

There goes her respite!

Bugger this,

just when she finds a great

deal at the Marriott,

clean walk to the casino 

Now this

Won’t be able to get across

the bloody bridges

with all the road rage

who knows

 what’s next?

Shouldn’t have taken

away the tolls

Everything was orderly til

this

Who’s gonna pay for the bridge

 maintenance 

She is, you are, that’s who

Not for a couple toonies a day neither

Might as well forget the weekend

Who wants to be stuck in traffic

for hours,

The overhead walkway helps

when you get there

BUT

getting there

Who knows ?

Bugger this!

Ellecee

Day 3  NaPoWriMo 2025

Prompted by

Good Universe Next Door

“  Write a poem that reacts to a 

newspaper headline

 in a very self-centered way.”

A Dream

 

Her utopia

would be free
from discrimination.
Discrimination based on
skin colour, nationality,
ethnicity, age, education,
class, and on, and on
Prejudices, as racism,
ageism, classism, and
so on, and so on,
What would her world
look like? 
Paradoxically 
even in her imagination 
she cannot see it

Ellecee

Day 30 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt: If I could change one thing

From: TP_Poetry

Genti

Sally bought a new computer

and named her Genti

Genti was built to help Sally

with her writing, spiff

it up, maybe give

her some pointers

It soon evolved that

Genti had some eccentricities 

not mentioned in her credentials

She didn’t spiff, she challenged,

she squelched, she innovated

Sally’s muse was lost in the translation,

Creativity faded

in the face of

Genti’s poaching,

Genti’s spawning, Genti’s progeny

Sally is disheartened,

 disappointed

dismayed

She wanted help

not annihilation

Ellecee

Day 27 - NaPoWriMo 2024

Prompt: Conflict in the time of AI

From: TP_Poetry

 

Hibernate

 

What can I do?

What I can’t do is

elementary

FrustrationI am not a politician or

a person of power

A delegated one who

changes circumstances 

Is that what 

delegates do?

I can’t or I don’t want 

to understand

Ebrahim Raisi

Isaac Herzog

Or any other combatants

willing to lay waste

I can’t change the

deep despondency 

proliferating among us

like another plague

And so on

and so on

What can “I” do?

Hibernate

Ellecee

Day 15 - NaPoWriMo 2024
Prompt “what can I do?”
from TP_Poetry

Perfect Imperfect

 

“We’ll, nobody’s perfect”

Some Like it Hot (1959)

“Mom, I’m too fat!”

“Dear heart you are beautiful!”

“Mom, I get all B’s”

“B’s are good”

“Mom I have no boyfriends”

“It’s early days, my pet”

“Mom, my clothes are old news”

“You always look lovely”

“Mom, some girls are mean”

“But you have good friends”

“I hate school!”

“School’s a must, my dear girl”

“Mom, I hate my hair!”

“Enough already!

Be still 

and know,

no body 

or nobody

is perfect”

Ellecee

Day 11- NAPOWRIMO 2023

Inspired by:

Sanaa Rizvi

Conversations

Quote - from Some Like it Hot (1959)