Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Thirteen

Today, Rena challenged us to write a fractured nursery rhyme. She gave us a link to Kenn Nesbitt's lesson on how to do it and it was very helpful! It's very similar to the way I write song parodies. I'm actually working on a fractured fairy tale picture book incorporating characters and story lines from several nursery rhymes so this was right up my alley.

           M is for Mother Goose

          Humpty Dumpty scaled the King's wall.

                  Humpty Dumpty crashed the King's ball.

                  No one would dance with him - why do you think?

                  His shell had a crack in it - boy, did he stink!

         

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Here's how to sign BALL (party):

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Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Twelve

Rena has challenged us to write a Limerick today - I love Limericks!  I have a bunch I learned in college but I can't share them here :-)  If anyone over 21 wants to hear them, let me know and I'll email them to you!  Here's my writing-related, G-rated Limerick:

L is for Limerick

I'm such an habitual rhymer,

I'm also a big wisenheimer,

I'm just a joke cracker,

a really talk-backer,

so people wish I was a mimer!

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Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Eleven

Rena gave us a really hard one today: "Please go to the online version of Poetic Magnetic Poetry Kit by clicking here. Use the words displayed to create a poem."  This was way harder than I thought it would be!  Plus, I didn't get home until after 9:00 tonight so I'm really pressed for time!  These magnetic letters are fun to use - you should try it!  Here's my poem:

K is for my Kids

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Here's how to sign MAGNET:

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Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Ten

J is for Jingle                         

Just got home and I'm feeling the pressure of having to write a poem for day eleven of the A to Z Poetry Challenge!  Rena's challenge for today is to "write a jingle that promotes your blog, website or yourself."  Yikes!  I started writing a complicated ad then a quick, easy one popped into my head - thank goodness!!  Here it is, along with the original jingle from the 60s.

                  

                         

When habitual rhyming's got you in a tizzy, 

Just plop yourself down and write something fizzy!

Wrote this, post this,

Oh what a relief it is!

Wrote this, post this,

Oh what a relief this is!

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Here's how to sign RELIEF:

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Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Nine

Wow, this was the hardest poem for me so far - I guess because inspiration, to me, is a serious thing so it required a serious poem.  Here goes nothing . . .

I is for Inspiration

I'm inspired by the poor to appreciate my wealth.

I'm inspired by the sick to appreciate my health.

I'm inspired by the homeless to appreciate my house.

I'm inspired by the widow to appreciate my spouse.

I'm inspired by the childless to appreciate my boys.

I'm inspired by the deaf to appreciate the noise.

I'm inspired by the lonely to appreciate my friends.

I'm inspired by the journey to appreciate the end.

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