Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even 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 … Mmmmm…not a great poem day for me. This one was about relations, real and imaginary.

Relations

My aunt, mother’s sister.
Far away, but always close.
Mom called me Carol
when I walked into the room.

Judy, like a sister
I never had.
We chair danced at work
to make the days go by.

Could the mountains
Be my brothers?
Stoic and silent
watching over me?

Ah, cynicism, my godmother,
I think of you whenever
sardonic sarcasm
escapes my lips.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter M.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, L is for … Late Night TV.

Upon waking after falling asleep on the couch in front of the TV

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter L.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, K is for … Know, as in I know some people are ok with raising hiding in cinnamon buns, and here is a poem from one who is NOT me.

A Raisin Eater’s Manifesto
(After Cameron Awkward-Rich)

There is nothing better
than a cinnamon bun
saturated with plump,
sticky, sugar laden wrinkled
gelatinous turds, surprising
unwary pastry lovers
who don’t understand, just
as I don’t understand
the existence of cinnamon buns
without raisins.

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Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, J is for … Just something I tried…

Ode to The Signs of Lekwungen

(a found poem – words cut from original text at https://www.victoria.ca/community-culture/arts-culture/public-art )

interpretive surrounding art,
hundreds of years
of descendants.
original bronze castings;

original cedar carvings

depict spindle whorls.
traditional foundation,
Coast Salish family placed
at seven significant sites
anchored to a base
under a map of traditional place,
sacred to the artist.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter J.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, I is for … I am the Chosen One.

The Chosen One

I stood proud.
An honour to be chosen
I said, donning cloak and boots
to face the wrath of winter’s storms

Out the door
I strode, head high, taking steps
two at a time
until I reached the road before me.

My dauntless steed
I mounted, settling in soft leather,
grabbed on and yelled “forth we go!”
We leapt past mounds of snow

towards the town lying silent
under stormy skies where
townspeople sheltered
by fires, waiting for sleep.

Anon I reached
my destination, breath hanging
in frosty air.
I paused, gazed upon the weathered door,

turned the knob and entered
not knowing what I would find;
my only hope
to reach my goal.

“I am here!” I cried
into the darkness.
She appeared,
looked me up and down

to take my measure.
“Finally,” she whispered.
“We’ve been waiting
too long.” Then another

gallant lad crept forth
my treasure in hand.
Success! I thought,
handing over gold,

taking box in hand.
“Thanks to ye!” I cried.
I returned to my steed,
stowed away my prize

to return home before
midnight rang out.
Thence everyone shared
my bounty hard won:
Half pepperoni, half mushroom onion.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter I.

Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, H is for Hell, this should have been for I is for Insomnia…sigh.

The assignment today was to write a pantoum, so I did and here it is.

Insomnia

I lie awake in bed at night,
thoughts of work run through my brain
chastise me over things I did
amid chattering reminders of those I didn’t.

Thoughts of work run through my brain,
plans I made changed out of my hands
amid chattering reminders of those I didn’t
inform of altered expectations.

Plans I made, changed out of my hands
call out in endless echos. They
inform of altered expectations,
to tell me to let go and move on,

call out in endless echos. They
bounce into a black hole of chaos,
tell me to let go and move on
or lose my mind in insomnia. So I

bounce into a black hole of chaos,
chastise myself over things I did
or lose my mind in insomnia, So
I lie awake in bed at night.

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Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, G is for … Gymnopédie

Gymnopédie (after Eric Satie, Gymnopédie #1)

My boat sways
over gentle ripples
of waves across a wide lake
so wide, I can’t see
the other side.

Sunrise shoots shafts
of pink, orange, yellow;
a kaleidoscope twisting
through clouds,
the light breaking
into tendrils that sink
breathlessly into the water.

On the nearby shore, willows
stroke the lake surface
like a lazy lover.

I lean back, face to sky
basking in silent dawn
as geese drift by, a hazy
V on the horizon.

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Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, F is for … Fudge I was late with this post.

(No coffee makers were harmed in the writing  of this post)

The world ended when the coffee maker broke,

stopped working, we don’t know why.
It’s death followed closely
by the toaster oven’s demise…
No toast for you! Or bagels, or pizza pops.
Fridge – fried; oven — over;
will dishwasher wash dishes?
We’ll never know…we have no dirty plates
or mugs. Finally: end of electricity heralds
end of days, nothing to do now but join
zombies in pursuit of human brains.

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Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, E is for … Eternity.

This poem was supposed to be about healing, but due to the process ended up being about something else…perhaps living for eternity!

No Death for You!

Avoid decay, call now!
No funeral waits for you.
Wake up, open
the obituary page;

Your name will not appear:
Our promise to you.

Look down on white
chalk outlines, uncover gurneys
in coroner offices —
you don’t fit.

Unlike Scrooge, you need
Not fear Christmas Future
pointing out headstones
in dimly lit cemeteries.

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Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, D is for … Dreams

Or do I mean nightmares?

Night Terrors

I woke this morning and tried to stand
my feet were water, slipping, flooding the hard wood floor.
I tried to push myself onto my knees
but knees flamed, sparks flying across the room.
My hands were bright balls of light
blinding my eyes, that were grapes, peeled
like ones we feel in a Hallowe’en vat
next to spaghetti brains and potato fingers.
I fell on my back, but it melted into the floor
back to sleep, and I hoped soon I would wake
from this nightmare, as I had so many times before.

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