Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, L is for ... List. “A list poem is only a rundown of things. A poem that is made up of a list of items or events, usually without transitional phrases. It can be any length and rhymed or unrhymed.”

Things I see in front of me

Fireplace glowing
Kitties comatose, cat toys strewn and forgotten.

Books lining shallow shelves unread for years
TV dark and menacing.

Late-day sunlight reflected in stained glass
Laptop closed and ignored.

Pillows tossed recklessly on couches
Chairs empty, beckoning, daring you to sit

Lamps dark, not needed in the early dusk of April
Rug calling to be straightened.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter L.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, K is for ... Kyrielle “A kyrielle is a poem type that is made of quatrains. Quatrains are four stanza poems. A kyrielle is actually a French form of poetry. The kyrielle is also a rhyming poem so the quatrains must, in fact, rhyme in some way. Each line of a kyrielle poem must consist of eight syllables. The rhymes in a kyrielle occur in couplets, meaning every two lines rhyme with one another. A kyrielle poem can be as short or as long as the writer wishes, so long as it contains the original rhyming quatrain, it is a kyrielle. “

Well, this is not a traditional kyrielle because it does not have the traditional “Lord have mercy” refrain. Didn’t seem to fit here…And I did only do one quatrain…

Delicate blossom adorns plate
empty of food that did me sate
Reflecting in pottery bowl
Gone the image of sushi roll

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter K.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, J is for ...Joseph’s Star. Now, it will be interesting to see if I can do this in WordPress…might take some wrangling. Joseph’s Star is “a poetry form created by Christina R Jussaume on 08/06/07 in memory of her Dad. This poem has no rhyme, and is written according to syllable counts. Syllables are 1, 3, 5, 7, 7, 5, 3, and 1. The poem may be written on any subject, be center aligned, has no stanza limit, and should have complete statements in each line.“

Sit
quiet rest
contemplativeness
by warm fire still relaxing
busy mind bouncing from day
kitties cuddle up
time to sleep
sit

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter J.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, I is for ...Imagism. Imagism is “a type of poetry that uses clear and direct statements in order to put an exact picture in the reader’s head.”

Theatre opens.
Fanciful designs in gold on wallpaper
with stone muses peering down
at seats slowly fill.

At the balcony”s edge
a man stands greeting friends.
I gaze around, in front, below,
waiting patiently,

hoping the chairs
in front of me are not
occupied by giants
or big hair.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter I.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, H is for ...Haibun. A Haibun is “Japanese form, pioneered by the poet Basho, and comprising a section of prose followed by haiku. They are frequently travelogues – as in Basho’s The Records of a Travel-Worn Satchel (1688). In the best examples, the prose and haiku should work together to create an organic whole.“

Errands are best run during the day on weekends, the time of day when others think the same. Stop, start, stop, start. Foot on the brakes when someone turns in front of you, are they oblivious or just important? Yellow light means hurry up. Red light means am I close enough to justify going through? Why does that lane suddenly end, and will that driver next to me decide to go straight from the turn lane? Sigh of relief when we make our destination, the only challenge now to find parking. Plenty of spaces, but we know when we emerge there will be a car right next to us blocking the passenger door. Back up, get in, off we go. A carnival game you should need to be this high to compete in. Or not high, but patient.

Driving around town
Tires and impatient drivers
always in a rush

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter H.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, G is for ... Ghazal. A Ghazal is “an Arabic love poem or love-song. A poetic form consisting of couplets that share a rhyme and a refrain. It is a Persian/Arabic /Urdu/Hindi and now English form of poetry between 5-15 rhyming couplets with or without refrain. (The refrain is the repeating part at the end of each couplet).”  This will be a challenge!

Love lost

I sit and mourn, empty
since abandoned, poor me.

Oh, what shall I do now?
There is no way for me

To replace you in good
time for breakfast. Sore me,

I breathe in and close eyes
to find calm come o’er me,

But an empty bacon
plate is still before me.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter G.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, F is for ... Found poem. “Found poetry is the rearrangement of words, phrases, and even whole passages that are taken from other sources and reframed as poetry. This transformation into a poetic structure is accomplished by applying changes to spacing, lines, or by alterations to the text (by adding or deleting words).“

For this found poem, I took an email I wrote on Friday, blacked out every other line, then went from there…

Scattered

I’m writing
the walls,
some information.

Classroom to be determined.
Will NOT be possible.

Know and I will be in person
in the rooms we have.

Multiple whiteboards
will run from the room,
bring computer,
use the camera

If you need a special room
move tables and chairs,
rearrangements for those
room host support duties.

Will include:
computer
activating record
yourselves (and any acknowledgments)

At the end
know the start.

Finally, make sure.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter F.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, E is for Epulaeryu. An Epulaeryu poem is a poem that is entirely about food. It has seven lines with a grand total of thirty-three syllables. The meter of the poem is set so that it is, 7/5/7/5/5/3/1. This means that the first line has seven syllables, the second has five. The third line also has seven syllables. The fourth and fifth lines each have five syllables. The sixth line has three syllables. The seventh and final line concludes with just one syllable. 

Ode to Bacon in the form of an Epulaeryu

When I crave salty goodness
there is only one
even with options plenty
there is only one
you know what I mean
bacon is
all

(Bacon Hill, constructed by friend Judy to celebrate me running the marathon…)

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter E.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, D is for Dodoitsu.   “The Dodoitsu is a fixed folk song form of Japanese origin and is often about love or humor. It has 26 syllables made of of four lines of 7, 7, 7, 5 syllables respectively. It is unrhymed and non-metrical.”

Ok, this is not about love or humour, but it does fit the syllabic form (it’s been a long week already…)

Forgotten

Waves of sorrow sink into
sewers. Amid detritus,
rats carry us into the
depths where our dreams die.

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter D.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…

Welcome to my April 2024 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

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

So, without further ado, C is for cinquain. The modern cinquain is based on a word count of words of a certain type.  Line 1 has one word (the title). Line 2 has two words that describe the title. Line 3 has three words that tell the action. Line 4 has four words that express the feeling. Line 5 has one word which recalls the title.

The traditional cinquain is based on a syllable count. Twenty-Two syllables in the following pattern (2-4-6-8-2) The traditional cinquain is based on a syllable count. It has five lines, and often, one word in the first line, two words in the second line etc. line 1 – 2 syllables,  line 2 – 4 syllables,  line 3 – 6 syllables, line 4 – 8 syllables, line 5 – 2 syllables

So, here goes nothing.

Tulips
colourful blooms
arriving in springtime
deer have not eaten you this year
we smile

Thanks for visiting my 2024 A to Z Challenge – Letter C.

Guess I’m kind of going rogue too…although I do like using the “official” letters…