Sunday, April 28, 2019

NPM19 - # 28 - Junk Mail


   Mail of a different sort!

Tabatha Yeatts has created a link to poems teachers and librarians can print for poetry month, titled "Poetry in The Halls". I'm grateful to be one of the poets!

Jama Rattigan has a post HERE with many poets' goals for April.

The Progressive Poem schedule can be found on the right.





 

          On Poetry Friday, Elaine Magliaro shared a few of her rhyming acrostics. They are so clever and you can see that post here. And not long after I read it, I walked to get the mail and wrote about my view in the evenings when I go. (My mailbox is in a bank of boxes about a short block away with a sunset view.) 
          Yesterday, I also walked for my mail and the best thing about it was the brief exercise, second best was that I found a poem in it, too! I received so much junk mail that I thought I'd use Elaine's poems as inspiration. I didn't rhyme, but know you'll get the point.




Boxed In

J ust one
U nderlying message,
N ot to be missed!
K indly reply.

M ake our day.
A fter signing up, after purchase,
I t will change your 
L ife


Linda Baie ©

10 comments:

Carol said...

Very clever and you have summed it up perfectly!!! I get soooooo much of this type of mail! My mailbox is stuffed with election flyers right now! I can't wait for the election to be over!

Elaine Magliaro said...

So happy to hear that my acrostics inspired your "Junk Mail" poem! I think we can all relate to it. I get more junk than "real" mail on a daily basis. And my "spam" email is even worse.

Linda B said...

Mine is full of the flyers, too. Ballots are due soon, guess they want to catch us at the last minute! Thanks, Carol

Linda B said...

Oh, yes, the 'spam', maybe another acrostic will arrive, Elaine. Thanks for the inspiration!

jama said...

Had to smile at the cleverness of your acrostic; makes me feel better about all the junk mail we receive somehow . . . :)

Linda B said...

Putting a humorous spin does help! Thanks, Jama

Margaret Simon said...

A just right junk mail acrostic. So many promises.

Cheriee Weichel said...

Your poem is delightful Linda, even if the junk mail isn't. I wonder who buys into this. People obviously do or they wouldn't continue.

Linda B said...

Thanks, Margaret!

Linda B said...

Thanks, Cheriee, yes, I imagine it does work & some look carefully at the offers.