28/31 Wandering Through The Alphabet

 
       It's Poetry Friday at A Year of Reading, with witty poet Mary Lee Hahn. Thanks for hosting, Mary Lee! And it's the 28th of 31 Slice of Life Challenge at Two Writing Teachers.  Thanks to Tara, Stacey, Anna, Beth, Betsy and Dana for carrying the community through this amazing month! 

                   And it's the Friday of my spring break-high time!
      In the past, I've written a few Abecendarian poems, poems that use each alphabet letter as a guide for each line or stanza. There is more about these here. Numerous ABC books do more than just follow the alphabet. There is wordplay within the letters themselves, and that fascinates me.  I'm been playing around with the letters, too, and have a poem to share.

     Alphabet Love Poem

Sometimes the letters get lonely,

waiting around for a word.

And lonely letters are sadder than sadness,

And lonely letters don’t ever get heard.

It’s a dreadful life as a letter.

But if it was mine to be,

I would carefully choose my existence,

and I wouldn’t choose L, M, N, O, or P.

I would ask the alphabet humbly,

if I could please serve as Q,

for if Q was the name of my letter,

I would be forever with U.

Linda Baie © All Rights Reserved

    Congratulations to all the poets in March Madness poetry competition, some of whom we see regularly here on Poetry Friday. I was delighted to be one of them, but did not progress, unfortunately. Round Three (the Sweet Sixteen) is about to close voting as I write this, so the Elite Eight will be sharing poems soon. Please check out Ed DiCaria's site, ThinkKidThink, read the wonderful poems and vote!