Poetry Month - Day Twenty-Six - Memory

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. 

Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

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
April 15 -  lune
April 16 - sonnet
April 17 - free verse
April 18 - silly verse 
April 19 - couplets

April 20 - free verse
April 21 - a skinny
April 22 - a prose poem
April 23 - cherita
April 24 - free verse
April 25 - mixed-up rhyme

Memory

The chocolate chip 

does not ignore

its given chore: 

a joyous fraternity 

with cookie dough, 

a sweetest show –

I’m sure you know.

It lasts for all eternity.

Poetry Month - Day Twenty-Five - Loving Reliable

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
April 15 -  lune
April 16 - sonnet
April 17 - free verse
April 18 - silly verse 
April 19 - couplets

April 20 - free verse
April 21 - a skinny
April 22 - a prose poem
April 23 - cheritaApril 24 - free verse

Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

Everyone Talks About the Weather, Also the Moon

The sun is thin,

clouds are flying,

coloring this day –

yes, all gray.

It knits its shades of muted color

into the lonely sounds of geese.

But after the sun set today

when wind pushed those clouds away,

I dreamt of the rising moon

in tune with the evening’s calm.

I’m glad it will carry on.

Poetry Month - Day Twenty-Four - Poetry Friday, Too!

It's April. It's Poetry Month!  
            
          And, its Poetry Friday, with Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering! Her post is full of great things today, bird song, "conk-a-ree" anyone? and the next lines in the Progressive Poem. Thanks, Christie!

         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!  




I want to say thank you to Irene Latham for the poetry postcard for poetry month and Jone MacCulloch for continuing her wonderful poetry project with students. I'm happy to share these joys from my mail!

         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
April 15 -  lune
April 16 - sonnet
April 17 - free verse
April 18 - silly verse 
April 19 - couplets

April 20 - free verse
April 21 - a skinny
April 22 - a prose poem
April 23 - cherita

Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

        The Ordinary

I’ve learned patience with the days,

un-winding them a few hours at a time.

When the sun casts morning shadows,  

I’m up and out walking,

allowing plans to rise.

Ordinary is the word I have used before

but now the whirr of the mower

becomes extraordinary.

Poetry Month - Day Twenty-Three - a shelter

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
April 15 -  lune
April 16 - sonnet
April 17 - free verse
April 18 - silly verse 
April 19 - couplets

April 20 - free verse
April 21 - a skinny
April 22 - prose poem


Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

day follows day

these hours

freeze my choices

I shelter within

a tree’s refuge

from a mystery

Poetry Month - Day Twenty-Two - Hauntings

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
April 15 -  lune
April 16 - sonnet
April 17 - free verse
April 18 - silly verse 
April 19 - couplets

April 20 - free verse
April 21 - a skinny

Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!

Hauntings

        The last time I held a donut was March 14^th, the same day I put up a sign at the bookstore where I volunteer, the sign that said, “Sorry, closed, until further notice. We will miss you!”

         It was at Safeway, one donut packaged in a plastic box. The donut shelves were empty. I knew then that our days were not going to stay like always – a quick stop at the bakery to grab a box, grab a waxed tissue to fill it up. Bring the box home ready for crunching that chocolate or caramel, watch the sprinkles fall onto the floor, lick my sticky lips and say “Yum!”

         I haven’t returned. I miss the donuts, but even more I miss chats with the checkers. I hope they’re okay. The donut isn’t everything but it’s my marker,

the “before”

and “after”.