April - Poetry Month - Day Ten - Jingle

  

      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 Ten is J is for Jingle, those brief ditties that are often commercials for items to buy, like the coca-cola commercial that starts "I'd like to buy the world a home/And furnish it with love. People who write them must be very talented. I found it quite a challenge!

Let’s Go!

 

Bookstores offer

gobs of books

so you can settle 

in a nook,

and take a trip

to anywhere,

have adventures

from your chair.

             Linda Baie ©

Free Stock photos by Vecteezy

April - Poetry Month - Day Ten - Random Visitor Plus the Progressive Poem Continues

   It's April, Poetry Month, Day Ten Plus the Progressive Poem continues!

        The bookmark, on top of the picture above, came into the bookstore at the end of March. Often people do donate books and leave 'treasures' in them. This time, it became my own treasure and I knew what I would do for April's poetry, write about found treasures, perhaps find new places to look? Happy April!

Plus! Check each day for the added line to the Progressive Poem, created by Irene Latham, now hosted by Margaret Simon! The link is to the right!  

And it's my day today! It feels as if this year we're walking along with other great writers, too. Irene started us with a line from The Imaginaries, and away we flew on our 2022 adventure.

  

 

Where they were going, there were no maps.  – Irene  (The Imaginaries)

Sorry! I don’t want any adventures, thank you. Not Today – Donna (The Hobbit)

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! -  

                                                                     Catherine F. (The Wind in The Willows)

We have to go back. I forgot something. Mary Lee (Walk Two Moons)

 

But it’s spring, and the world is puddle-wonderful, so we’ll whistle and dance and set off on our way.  Buffy Silverman (a bit from e.e. cummings)

Come with me, and you’ll be in a land of pure imagination. Linda Mitchell (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

Wherever you go, take your hopes, pack your dreams, and never forget – it is on our journeys that discoveries are made.  Kim Johnson (from Maybe by Kobi Yamada)

And then it was time for singing. Rose Cappelli (Sarah, Plain and Tall)

Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain, paint with all the colors of the wind, freewheeling through an endless diamond sky? Carol Varsalona (Disney Songs)

            After today, we are a third of a way through. It feels as if it's time for a turning, thus I took some words from a favorite book by Byrd Baylor, whose words have made me think of wonders in the world every time I read them. This time, the book is The Other Way to Listen. I changed the words to reflect a group rather than one person. 

My line:  "Suddenly, they stopped and realized they weren’t the only ones singing."

          

 

Here's the full list of those writing.  Carry on, Janet!