Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, P is for …Pantoum.

“A Malaysian verse form adapted by French poets and occasionally imitated in English. It comprises a series of quatrains, with the second and fourth lines of each quatrain repeated as the first and third lines of the next. The second and fourth lines of the final stanza repeat the first and third lines of the first stanza.”

He Walks in Darkness

He walks in darkness, closing
hands, feet beating in step
with his heart. He doesn’t look
back, as if he had a choice, while

hands and feet beat. Onto steps
he climbs, eager to return
back, as if he had a choice while
turning from signs, fearing the end.

He climbs, eager to return,
all his fears scattering.
Turning from signs, fearing the end,
he is buried deep.

All his fears scattering,
a knife plunges into his heart.
He is buried deep as
he walks in darkness closing.

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter P.

Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, O is for … Ode

“The ode—originally accompanied by music and dance, and later reserved by the Romantic poets to convey their strongest sentiments—is a formal address to an event, a person, or a thing not present. The name comes from the Greek aeidein, meaning to sing or chant, and belongs to the long and varied tradition of lyric poetry. “

Ode to Imposter Syndrome

After Olivia Gatwood

Imposter, you are my middle name,
like Bruce, the Batman, Wayne.
You’ve hid my true identity
for 30 years or more.

I stand there, under cover,
darkness beneath awnings
rain drenching hooded features.

No one notices how you watch me,
making it up as I go,
imitation the only form
of flattery I know.

You chase my confidence away,
running like rivulets of water
into sewers below,

where it sits, a clown masked
ready to grab and drag
all that is left of me away
before anyone sees me
for who I really am.

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter O.

Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, N is for …Ninette

“A Ninette is a type of poem which contains nine lines, each line with a difference of one syllable from the previous one. The syllables increase with one number, from the first line until the midpoint where they start decreasing. The syllable count of a Ninette is one, two, three, four, five, four, three, two and then back to one. The first and the last line of this type of poem do not have to be necessarily the same. They can either be synonyms or antonyms. Ninette poems can be prepared to talk about many different subjects. It could be love, philosophy, nature, animals, relationships dilemmas or any other themes. Poets form them to display thoughts and emotions in the form of words in a beautiful pattern.“

Snack

peach
on plate
beckons me
to lift and eat
but before biting
I put it down
and instead
turn to
pear

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter N.

Welcome to my April 2025 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, M is for …Monoku

“A Monoku is a type of poem which is made up of a single horizontal line. Traditionally considered as a haiku writing, it is currently accepted as a variant of the haiku form of poetry. Monoku emerged as an independent style of poetry in the 1970s. Unlike the Haiku which is made up of three outlines with a total of seventeen syllables, Monoku features a single line consisting of seventeen syllables or even fewer. It contains a pause brought about by speech rhythm with slight or no punctuation. The first letter should not be capitalized – but instead written in lower case.

Spring

flowers burst on branches high – a waterfall of petals float to earth

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Thanks for visiting my 2025 A to Z Challenge – Letter M.