Thursday, April 4, 2019

Catching Up With A Poem A Day Challenge

I'm catching up today.

It's silly to feel behind during this completely self-imposed challenge but I do, so since I'm in charge of this here blog, I'm posting twice in a day.  

Today's catch up poem (more like what I call a piece of prosetry: writing that is more like prose but looks like a poem) is inspired by the phrase 'catch up.'

I've got this kid in my class who works her tushie off to completely understand any concept I teach and is not satisfied with guessing or hurrying through. Consequently, she doesn't finish anything first.   Which is just fine in my book because she's got diligence and a heart for wisdom and true learning.  

Which means she's got my heart.


Catch Up
Sometimes,
I know,
they want me
to catch up.
And sometimes,
you know,
I want
to catch up
but
I have to take things slow--
it's the way I grow.
Rebekah Hoeft 2019

Day 4, Poem 3 of a Poem a Day for National Poetry Month

For this poem, I looked to Dictionary.com's Word of the Day for inspiration.  Today's word is multiverse, which means "a hypothetical collection of identical or diverse universes, including our own."

Being a sci-fi kind of girl, I decided to go with a parallel universe poem, in limerick form.

'Cause nothing says science fiction like a limerick.   ☺

Filters...The final frontier. 
Excellent everywhere in the galaxy.
#alwaysclassy
Edit:
To be honest, this read EXACTLY like a limerick precoffee.  But now, mere hours later, it's a clunker unless you read it just so.  Which means this post has become  an anecdote for the lesson all poeming people learn the hard way:  let things simmer.  It's best not to throw your words to the world without a little time to notice the complete horror of what  bad meter brings to your poem.  

I suppose I could delete this.  But nah.   

*Grits teeth.*

That is not what this month is for.  

It's for embarrassment and hideous poetry.   

Just kidding.  :)  

For me,  it's for the joy of writing. And practicing throwing my words to the world.  

Sigh.

Cringing and moving on.





Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Day 2 of National Poetry Month

It is day three and I am on day two of a National Poetry Month challenge: I'm determined to write a poem a day in April.

Today's word to incorporate into a poem is pithy, given out very generously by the madman behind Madness! Poetry, Ed DeCaria.
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#iheartfilters

Unlike yesterday's nonet form, the form I used today does not, that I know of, have a name.  If I were to rewrite it, I would change the rhyme scheme a bit so that there was rhyming between the stanzas to create a better flow in the poem.  But, since perfect poetry is not what I'm after this month, it remains.

If you're playing along, here is its basic form (- unstressed syllables, / stressed syllables):

- - / - - / A
- - / - - / B
- / - - / - - / B
- - / - - / C
- - / - - / D
- / - - / - - / D






Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Happy National Poetry Month!

Happy National Poetry Month!

I'm planning on writing a quick children'sish poem a day.  I say quick which means not perfect and barely edited.  :)

Last year's poetry month plans went south fast, so we'll see if my resolve resolves.

I should mention I'm a day late so already the outcome seems a little grim.

Play along if you wish with your own quick, not perfected poems.

Today's poem is a nonet: nine lines. First line nine syllables, second line eight syllables..and so on and so forth until line nine, which is one syllable.

It can rhyme.  Or not.
Have rhythm. Or not.

Be any subject.

Some may say it's barely a poem.

Maybe true.  But fun to write.

Cheesy background?
I say classy background.

Today's poem brought to you by Amelia Shearer, who assigned me a word (sprouted) ever so nicely, because I asked. 

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