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Ls Lowry Footles

Footles based on LS Lowry and his paintings. Surreal I feel Lone Man Own Man Match fit Matchsticks Street scene Smoke seen From mill Street fill School group Pea soup The Pond Beyond Seascape Flat shape A Fight Plain sight House Moor Strange door Cranes ships No trips Bedroom In gloom Sail boat Mum gloat Seaside Spy tide Smog drapes Seals fates Bandstand Day grand Irk Place Pale face Big group With stoop Portrait Can paint Red Eyes Chastise Blitzed Site Dark Sight Wall lay Long day Landmark Bit stark Choo Choo Comes through Hats, ghouls Make rules In streets Home beats On knee No glee Brian Strand Contest No 1199 Poetry Contest 16th March 2023 Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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Sam Kauffman

Date: 3/20/2023 1:57:00 PM

Your delightful creativity and love for the art world is on full display DD! You really have captured the essence of each painting in your footles - elegant simplicity! Congratulations on your win! Blessings!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/20/2023 1:59:00 PM

Thanks Sam:) it was fun to view some I wasn't familiar with also. Describing so few words was a novelty :)

Di11y Da11y

Date: 3/16/2023 5:39:00 PM

Titles of paintings Going to the Match 1928 Street Scene Pendlebury Coming from the Mill 1930 School Yard The Pond Seascape A Fight House on the Moor Cranes and Ships The Bedroom, Pendleburu Sailing Boats Waiting for the Tide Going to Work Bandstand Peel Park The Steps, Irk Place Family Group Self Portrait Portrait of Man with Red Eyes Blitzed Site Man Lying on a Wall A Landmark Level Crossing Meeting Point Francis Street Mother and Child

Paige Hind

Date: 3/16/2023 11:21:00 AM

Very, very good work! Your writing is so powerful and haunting!

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/16/2023 12:04:00 PM

Thank you so much Paige - I've just wrote some more sat in the car waiting to pick up my daughter. I'll upload them later. I have decided to include the painting titles too for the update. Thanks again for your very encouraging words

Jaymee Thomas

Date: 3/16/2023 9:34:00 AM

This is so lovely. I learned a new word from your title too. Thank you for that. This takes so many interesting turns, and each line was a new surprise of language and thought. It impacted me and I had no idea what it even referenced. Then I headed to my googler and saw the paintings - wow - it took on even more depth. Really great work.

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/16/2023 9:38:00 AM

Thanks Jaymee - I'll revisit and tweak them most likely but didn't want to miss Brian's contest so submitted them. It was quite fun to try and describe the essence of a painting in 4 syllables and with a rhyme! I was surprised how quickly they flowed. I did it very quickly this morning - Thank you for your kind words. Brian invented the poetry form Footle

Eve Roper

Date: 3/16/2023 9:32:00 AM

Great for the contest, Dilly Dally, I enjoyed reading. Hugs eve

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/16/2023 9:39:00 AM

Thank you, it's probably easy to spot I was writing quite specifically to impress Brian with these but I did enjoy doing it :)