Day 5: National Poetry Month
Todayโs prompts: โenergized,โ โsafety,โ and โbeing so grumpy you hate everything,โ like Charles Darwin hated clover and bees. It is also, conveniently, โEโ โ happy Easter to those celebrating it. I hope you woke to a beautiful sunrise!
Energized
black sand soil sizzles โ
ice-sparkle starlight
on alien hills, craters
dress for the Arctic โ
first light will dazzle,
kiss away frost breath
Haleakalฤ
dawn calls forth purple
silverswords.
ZipOdes
Returning, for just a moment, to my personal โforms challenge.โ
Thanks to the poet Jane Honchell, whom I met through The Stafford Challenge, I learned about a poetry form called ZipOdes, invented in 2015 by O, Miami Poetry Festival, and WLRN.
Other National Poetry Month Posts
- National Poetry Month, Texas Style!
- Apricots: a Tanka Encompassing Three Prompts
- Bee Sting: Day 2 of National Poetry Month
- Cacophony and CBD: Day 3 in Nonsense Verse and Found Poetry
- Technically, a Writer: Day 3 of National Poetry Month
- Dive: Day 4 of National Poetry Month
- Storm Front: Day 4 of National Poetry Month
- Energized: Day 5 of National Poetry Month
- Grump: Day 5 ยฝ of National Poetry Month
- Future Frittered Away: Day 6 of National Poetry Month
- Hell, Hell, Hell: Day 7 (More or Less) of National Poetry Month
- Insomnia: Day 8 of National Poetry Month
- Juxtaposition: Day 9 of National Poetry Month
- Knife Edge: Day 10 of National Poetry Month
- Lost a Day: Day 11 of National Poetry Month
- Many Definitions: Day 12 of National Poetry Month
- New Form โ Quadrille Quaiku: Day 13 of National Poetry Month
- Ode to Imagination: Day 14 of National Poetry Month
- Pixellated People: Day 15 of National Poetry Month
- Quintessential, Querulous Quintet: Day 16/17 of National Poetry Month
- Renewal: Day 18 of National Poetry Month
- Secrets of the Terrarium: Day 19 of National Poetry Month
- Tenacious: Day 20 of National Poetry Month
- Unruly: Day 21 of National Poetry Month
- Villainous Villanelle: Day 22 of National Poetry Month
- Waiting for the Chimes: Day 23 of National Poetry Month
- X: Day 24 of National Poetry Month
- You Are Here: Day 25 of National Poetry Month
- Z to A, a Reverse Abecedarian: Day 26 of National Poetry Month
Iโm going to have to think a bit on the โgrumpyโ poem. Iโm sure one will come to me before the day is out. Darwin is such an inspiration โ I have had days like that, and even posted something about hating clover and bees on Facebook, recently. Why, my Day 2 poem might even fit the bill! Go read that and say I merely jumped the gunโฆ
Your Turn!
What makes you grumpy? Have you ever tried writing it out in poem form?
What are you doing, if anything, to celebrate Easter?
Thank you for visiting and reading. I hope youโll leave a comment โ maybe even a poem โ below.
I don’t know if I’ve ever written a grumpy poem.
G – Great day with sunny sky to go to work
R – Rain welcoming me when I leave the office
U – Until the sun sets, when I was about to pull out a book and tea for the rainy night
M – Moon shining bright, which is helpful because the electric just went out
P – Please let tomorrow be better.
Y – YES!
Yours reminds me of the book, “Fortunately, Unfortunately”
My grump is usually when plans go awry.
As they so often do. I almost worry when the day goes exactly as planned, as if there’s a hidden “gotcha!” hiding in the dark as I’m drifting off to sleep. As if the thing that goes “bump!” in the night is the other shoe dropping.