April - Poetry Month, Day One - Acrostic

Happy Poetry Month!

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        I'm taking the advice from the poet who has given so much to help us all, including students and teachers, write poetry. I'll be moving from A to Z, obviously needing to combine a few to make it all come out to 30. FYI—Sometimes, Paul Janeczko offers a prompt to write a poem that begins with the specific alphabet letter instead of a poem type. It will be fun to be open to writing in all kinds of ways!

       You can find the path to the Progressive Poem over to the right! Simply click on the graphic!

       The first challenge for A is to write an acrostic!

      Here is what I wrote! Some days, I'll write about the world today and today this poem reflects our troubled world, the challenges of war, politics, climate change, and accidents, which all often leave us wondering if there is a way we can make a difference? I hope so!

                                               SURVIVAL

                                        S imple, you say?

                                        U nder fire

                                        R aging

                                        V ast

                                        I  rreconcilable differences

                                        V ainglorious

                                        A nxiety

                                        L  ost breath

                                                            Linda Baie ©

April - Poetry Month - Day One - Acrostic

 

       Happy Poetry Month, where poems parade in the streets, run like rivers within our veins or settle in our hearts every.single,time. 

       I am planning to use this older book pictured left that follows the alphabet with one kind of prompt each day. I used this book on occasion in the classroom years ago, but never worked through it day by day, with deliberation! Here goes!

Day One: A is for Acrostic

P  oems flew off the pages

O ut into our world

E  veryone celebrated 

M aking something to remember

 

Linda Baie © 

Free Stock photos by Vecteezy

April Poetry Month - Day Eleven - A New Kind of Celebration

It's April. It's Poetry Month! 

         Remember to check out the list of what everyone is doing at Jama Rattigan's blog: Jama's Alphabet Soup.

          And check on the Water Poem Project where every day, a poet is sharing a prompt connected to water, hosted and created by Laura Shovan!

Plus! Check each day for the added line to the Progressive Poem, created by Irene Latham, now hosted by Margaret Simon! The link is above and the graphic to the right!           A leap with the theme of CIRCLES for poetry month, poems & small sketches. I am looking forward to reading everyone's posts. I'm sure I will love each one, knowing they're done during a time we've not lived before. I am worried about so many, those close and those far, my community, too. 


April 1 - haiku
April 2 - cinquain
April 3 - a couplet
April 4 - limerick
April 5 - a kyrielle
April 6 - a skinny
April 7 - quatrain

April 8 - tanka

April 9 - a prose poem

April 10 - free verse

Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

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 ©

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