April - Poetry Month - Day Fifteen

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
April 11 -  acrostic
April 12 - free verse

April 13 - a nonet

April 14 - haiku

Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

My Apple Slice! - # 28

  Slice Number 28 with Stacey and Ruth at the Two Writing Teachers March SOLC    

Three more times in the challenge!

       While I have an audience of some count (as The Great Gilly Hopkins said, actually about books, in the book by Katherine Paterson), I want to say a bit about apples, yes that tasty Malus domestica.  Did you know they were in the rose family? Lovely!

       I am convinced that apples keep me healthy.  I eat at least one apple every day for lunch, sliced with peanut butter spread on them and on four Ritz crackers.  I know, I know, it might be boring, but it keeps me filled for all the rest of the day, and I just love APPLES.  I love Granny Smiths, Pink Ladies (a favorite), Cameos, McIntosh and Fuji’s.   They are a prime source of vitamin C, have no fat, no cholesterol and little sodium.  They are a good source of fiber.  And they taste great. 

Braeburns, this time         
           There are many stories about apples, traced all the way back to the Three Golden Apples used by Hippo Menes (given to him by Aphrodite) to win the heart of Atalanta.  And of course there is the story of Adam and Eve. 

          But you’ll have to discover more history yourself.  This is about eating apples.  At school, I eat with friends or at my computer, but at home I eat with the squirrels.  I have several who visit my back yard by the park and I feed them peanuts and the core of my apple plus one sliced apple every day I’m home.  They sometimes wait if they know I’ve been home, and they know that if I work in the yard for a bit before lunch.  Then, around lunchtime, I see them lurking around, waiting.    I fix my lunch, and that for the squirrels, with peanuts thrown in too.