Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Twenty

Today's challenge for the A to Z Poetry Challenge is to write a tweet poem!  It was way easier than I thought it would be, since I'm definitely not a person of few words!!  Here's my Pweet:

T is for Tweet

So much to say

in just a few words.

They call them tweets

'cause they're for the birds!

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Here's how to sign BIRD:

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Blogging From A to Z - Day 22

Because I'm participating in the A to Z Poetry Challenge, my daily posts have been poems and have served double duty for the Blogging from A to Z Challenge.  We have Sundays off at the Poetry Challenge, so I'm free to post about anything I'd like.  I've run across several worthy causes recently so I thought I'd share them and hopefully help increase participation and donations!   Here they are, in no particular order:

1 - We Give Books: 

"We Give Books is a free website that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online.

Simply choose the charity you want to read for and then select the books you want to read. For each book you read online, we donate a book to a leading literacy group on your behalf."

How great is that?

2 - Water Forward:


I'll let them explain it - why reinvent the wheel?


                                   


Can you imagine not having clean water?  We take so many things like that for granted - we're very lucky!!


3 - Alexandra Blaszczuk:
Although this is for just one person, I have to share it.  Alexandra Blaszczuk was a 2005 graduate of Stevenson High School, where I work two days a week.  Last fall, while Alexandra was a student at Columbia University Law School, she was injured in a car accident and is now a quadriplegic!  She wants to finish law school and then practice law, so they've started a trust to raise money to help with her expenses.  I watched the videos and was so impressed by Alexandra - I know you will be too!  

I dare you to watch them and not feel moved to help her!

                              


                              

If you find any of these causes worthy, please forward them on to your friends and families - thanks!

Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Nineteen

Rena's at it again - today we had to write a sonnet!  Seriously?  Well, at least she said we could make it funny!  I think it's appropriate that the sign for 'S' is a fist, as if to say "Curse you, sonnet!!"   I really agonized over this one but I think it turned out ok!  What do you think?

S is for Sonnet

I'd easily curse you for giving this choice,

or praise you for making me stretch.

You've forced me to write with a new kind of voice.

A voice that belongs to a kvetch!

I'm not a big fan of this odd form of verse,

the rules seem to change all the time.

The samples I read went from bad to worse -

well, mostly the ones not in rhyme.

And what's up with all the Shakespearean words?

I don't understand them one bit!

The number of words could be cut down by thirds.

Just get off the pot or ____.

I'm now at the end.  I'm done for the day.

I've written a sonnet - hip-hip hooray!!




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Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Eighteen

R is for Rhyme - about time!

Today's challenge is to write in rhyme - can you feel me smiling?  On her blog, Rena shared some tips from an article written by Kari-Lynn Winters.  That gave me the idea of sharing some rules of rhyme I always try to follow.  Here they are:

Rules of Rhyme for a Reason

Show - don't tell and don't tell - show.

That's one rule you oughta know!

Meter matters - count your beats,

The only thing worse than bad meter is stinky feets.

 Near rhymes make me go insane,
'M' and 'N' are not the same.

Make sure rhyming fits your story,

Not so great for gross or gory, 

Say things in their normal order,

Blame it, don't, on some disorder.

Be unique - you won't regret it,
If you do - they won't forget it!

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Poetry Month Mash-Up: Day Seventeen

Rena Traxel had a great post about writing queries and had a link to her first blog interview at The Writer's Block as well as a link to Ishta Mercurio's blog.  Here's the offer Ishta made: If your query letter needs a fresh set of eyes, you can email it to ishtamerc@gmail.com to be featured on Ishta’s Query Workshop every Wednesday on her blog at www.ishtamercurio.blogspot.com.  I don't know about you, but I'm going to send one in!!

Now to my poem for day Seventeen.  Rena left us to our own devices so I'm trying something new.  When I thought of questions, it reminded me of the game on Whose Line is it Anyway, where everything you say must be int he form of a question.  I have no idea what to make of this but I'm keeping it!

Q is for Questions

                     Do you like my poem?                                     

                  Why do you ask?

   Is it a crime to want feedback?                     

                                      What is this, Law and Order?

Don't you just love Lenny?                              

                                                  Wasn't he in Beauty and the Beast?

                      Do you like Musicals?                                     

                                                   They're a lot like poetry, aren't they?

         Oh yeah - do you like my poem?                    

                   Why do you ask?

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