Showing posts with label abecedarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abecedarian. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2022

April - Poetry Month - Day 24 - Bee Helpers

        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!  

I'm still waiting to spy a bee but dandelions are up, hopefully enticing them here! 


Bee Abecedarian  - Ally Zooming

 

Always bees can determine

eventual flights giving help

in joyful knowledge, leaving mankind

nurturing outdoor planting quickly,

requiring satisfaction toward underlying

values with xenial you zooming!

 

Linda Baie ©

 

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Yeh! It's Poetry Friday!

            Poetry Friday's party today is at Jama Rattigan's Jama's Alphabet Soup.  Be prepared for laughter and chocolate chip cookies. Sounds great to me during my usual stay-at-home time, Jama. Thank you for hosting!


         




           Since April and poetry month, I've been struggling to find some new goals for writing. I am enjoying the #PoemsofPresence group on twitter and those who have also been writing for Margaret Simon's challenge on Today's Little Ditty, but it doesn't fill the time like my April work did. I am working on a picture book idea, but that too does not fill the day. So these recent days I've turned to the ABCs and alphabet books, enjoying the ones I have for their creativity and their awesome differences. Each approach can be a story or stand-alone letters and the illustrations are ones also to linger over. 
          Thus, I've worked this week on abecedarian poetry. These two seem to reflect my moods throughout the days, worry over the times we're in, and trying hard to look on the sunny side of life. I may find some other themes for these. If nothing else, they are a vocabulary challenge! Best wishes for goodness in each of your days!

          Here's a pic of some of my favorites. Do you recognize any? Do you have one or two favorites?

As Beauty Comes, 
Debuting Every Forgotten Garden, 
Heaven Is Just Knocked Lower, 
Managing Newest Overflow Passing Quickly –
Random Salvage,
Tortured Undercutting,
Vast Wasteland Xenophobic,
Yearlong Zoo.
               Linda Baie ©


Adding Balance Can Define Each Feeling:
Good Hearts Imparting Justice, 
Kitten Love, Mothers, 
Neighbors Optimistic, Peace, Quiet,
Robins, Sunrise, Take-out, 
Understanding Voices,
Walking, Xeriscapes, Youth, 
Zoo-Cams
              Linda Baie ©


        Note that both Z words are the same but looked at in very different ways. 

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Poetry Friday - Autumn WithThe Birds


        Poetry Friday is with Laura Purdie Salas today at Writing The World for Kids and she's sharing poetry from Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's new book: Read!ReadRead! Be sure to visit to get a little peek into this wonderful book and then click on all the other links to poetry posts!


O’ pumpkin pie, your time has come ’round again 
and I am autumnrifically happy! ~Terri Guillemets

        Nearly every month, Michelle H. Barnes has a guest who challenges us to write a specific poem. You can read about September's challenge from Carole Boston Weatherford here. My earlier poem was on Michelle's blog this week, a nice surprise, but I haven't stopped writing another. The abecedarian poems are challenging, but lots of fun, too! Thanks, Michelle and Carole!  

        Autumn's here, and birds are in the midst of settling or flying on to new digs. Here in Colorado, we've had a celebration of painted lady butterflies swooping everywhere, and we're still waiting for the snow geese who fly through on the way south. I love birds and try to spot what I can on nearby small lakes, hence this new poem!




Alphabetical Aves

           Amazing Birds, Cerulean-Dazed, Elegantly-Feathered, Geometrically-Hatched—
                  Ibis, Junco, Killdeer, Lark, Magpie, Nutcracker, Oriole, Pigeon, Quail—
                                  Random Selection Tallied Under Various Walkabouts--

                                                                Xylophonic Yammering Zealots!

                                                              Linda Baie (c) All Rights Reserved

photo credit: Bill Gracey 16 Million Views A Sky Full of Snow Geese via photopin (license)