Showing posts with label poetry challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry challenge. Show all posts

Sunday, October 2, 2022

#FallWritingFrenzy 2022 - Lights

 

Fall- Credit: Daniele Colucci for Unsplash


Lights

In all this city, grayed and grim,

it's never truly bright.

But dawn sends out a hint, a skim

of rose to cut the night.

At noon if clouds should, on a whim,

dissolve to wisps you might

discern blue sky through gauzy scrim;

blink once you'll miss the sight.

The dusk sends sun below the brim

of sky, the clouds take flight

as if they need a rest, they'll rim

the edges of the night.

The lamps are lit. They glow in dim

and eerie streets; they fight

the inky shadows, bleak and grim:

prove dark can't drive out light.

© Rebekah Hoeft 2022



Saturday, February 22, 2020

Crunchy Puddles Are Crunchalicious!


Picture by blabla5 from Pixabay

WINTER WALKING
On winter walks
on crisp cold mornings
my favorite part
of frozen gravel paths
is finding
rumpled edges
and shallow ditches
where skims of
clouded ice
hang waiting for
my ice-searching
puddle-crunching
foot to
smash crash crinkle crackle crunch through
to the hollow space beneath.
© Rebekah Hoeft February 2020

Michelle, over at Today's Little Ditty, interviewed Buffy Silverman.  Buffy is a Michigan author who writes nonfiction books and poetry for children--sometimes combining the two.  You can find out more about her work on her website.

Buffy has a new book called On a Snow-Melting Day:  Seeking Signs of Spring.  It's full of photographs and beautiful words that make you feel like spring is right around the corner!

Buffy challenged Michelle's readers to write a poem that uses combined or invented words.  Head to Michelle's February padlet for examples or to post one of your own.

I gave it a try with the above free verse poem about crunchy puddles, which are in my top 10 things that make me happy during the cold months.

Thanks, Michelle, for posting it on your site.  Seeing it there was as thrilling as stepping through a crinkle crackling puddle! 

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Funny and Smart

Michelle, over at Today's Little Ditty, interviewed Kate O'Neil, an Australian poet. Kate challenged Michelle's readers "to write a poem based on the sheer delight of words at play: malapropisms, ambiguities, unintended meanings, puns, clichés, etc." You can find the interview and a padlet to post your own poems here.

I'm an appreciator of word play, but not a pun professional like my siblings and husband. This was a bit of struggle but fun once I found a joke to use. Feel no shame if you have to search the web for puns and jokes to try this challenge!

I Guess I'm the Funny and Smart One

Mom thinks my sister Lily is intelligent,
but then I asked why mountains feel so tired.
She shrugged; I smiled, “Because they do not Everest.”
I’d hoped she’d screech and say I was inspired.
Lil had no clue that I was being comical.
She didn’t catch my grin and great big winks.
Instead, she strangely said, “That’s so hill areas.”
Poor girl is not as smart as my mom thinks.


©Rebekah Hoeft November 2019


Susanna Leonard Hill's 11th Annual Valentiny Contest

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