Day 30 - Last Day of National Poetry Month
Well, this month has been quite amazing – for one, I actually posted on my blog EVERY day for 30 days in a row. That has GOT to be some kind of a record; especially for the A.D.D. poster queen that I am. I’m pretty pleased about that. However, my greatest satisfaction comes from seeing what these posts prompted others to create. Amazing!!
If you’ve been following on the blog, you have seen the work of only 2 or 3 brave souls who have posted here, but I’ve also made this poetry challenge part of two email groups I belong to and the poems there just kept coming and they have been remarkable! So, for today, the last day of National Poetry Month – I’d like to hear your comments on what this has brought to you. What have you learned? What did you love? What frustrated you (if anything)? Did you discover you were a poet and didn’t even know it?
I hope you have had fun and please post your comments (which I would love to read) here ON MY BLOG ~ even if you never wrote a poem, but enjoyed reading the poems others wrote.
LAST DAY POEM ~ please feel free to create any style poem you have enjoyed. Or you might try summing up your feelings in a poem. Thanks for taking this journey with me. See ya’ next year for Poetry Month. But please stick around as I have other things you might enjoy reading about coming up on my blog.
Today, I’m going to a pancake breakfast this morning (my sweet gluten-free friend, Kathy, is seeing to it that there are pancakes we can eat there) and then I’m off to Day 2 of a really interesting workshop on grieving, but more importantly, awakening. It’s been pretty fascinating so far. Take care!!
Here’s MY poem for the last day of National Poetry Month, a cinquain poem, (pattern 1) – I’ll post the pattern here to remind you:
1st line ~ two syllables – the subject (or title) or your poem
2nd line ~ four syllables that describe the title/subject
3rd line ~ six syllables that express action
4th line ~ eight syllables that express a thought or feeling
5th line ~ two syllables synonym for title (restates your subject using a different word)
Poems
Feelings expressed
From down deep in my heart
So you know who I am I’ll sing
Word Songs
© 2011 Stephanie Abney
Enjoy!! YOUR TURN!!
4 comments:
This month of poetry has been,
a most remarkable thing.
I've found I have the skill
to express my thoughts at will.
I am more than you see outside
I have feelings deep inside
Our lives have a purpose, it is true.
We must help others see it too.
So make a difference to a friend in need
You'll be happy in the end indeed
You'll see our Savior and He will say,
"Well done, enter my house today!"
POETRY
Verse, rhyme, balladry, ode, sonnet, ditty
Words that come from the heart
Genuine, earnest, warm, profound and pretty
Deepest, heartfelt works of art
That the Spirit allows us to write called poetry.
Mary L. Walling 4/2011
Yay to my most faithful poets!!! Thanks for the great poems today and for participating all month long!!! Great job!
Wow. I wrote a few poems a WAY long time ago. WAY. I love people who are willing to put so much effort into so few words.
Definitely a talent.
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