April is National Poetry Month, and Writers Digest blogger Robert Lee Brewster challenges us to write a poem a day this month in his Poetic Asides blog. He gives a specific challenge and then asks you to answer it in a poem.
Oh-kay.
Well, I already missed yesterday, and I don't have time to backtrack, but I'm going to try to post a poem a day from now on for this whole month here on this blog.
Warning: my poems will probably suck.
And they will likely be short.
But I've been wanting to flex my metaphorical muscles and remember the joy of poetry. What better way than to make it a chore?
Sigh.
Fellow SCBWI member and children's author Gregory K. is doing the same on his blog. Today's poem, about a hippo, is not only charming and funny - it rhymes! Expect haikus and, er, free verse from yours truly. I'll be back later to day with the prompt and my poem in response.
If you wish to participate, Robert Lee Brewster encourages everyone to post their poem in the comments on his blog. Go for it!
2 comments:
Rhyming or not, the fun is in the writing I tell ya! Or maybe that's poetic self-delusion? Ahh, no matter. Whatever gets us writing....
Good luck on the 30!
Thanks, Greg! I'm off to try poem number two and will shortly visit your blog to see what you have wrought.
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