Poetry Month is finally here! My #NaPoWriMo Poem-A-Day project is Playing With Poetry. I am tagging along with Margaret Simon, Jone MacCulloch, and Mary Lee Hahn. We will be playing with Haikubes, Magnetic Poetry, Metaphor Dice, and Paint Chip Poetry (I raided Home Depot). I’m even throwing in nail polish color names as inspiration, just for fun! Play along, if you’d like! We are using the Twitter hashtag #playwithpoetryNPM to see what poetic mischief everyone is getting into.
A handful of paint chip colors inspired today’s first offering.
Back to nature
Longing for soft buttercups
The garden fairy
And fern canopies
Beyond the garden wall
On this rainy afternoon
Filled with gray mist
From a spring storm
— Christie Wyman, 2019 (draft)
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And introducing….
Starting today members of the Poetry Friday family have launched the 7th annual Kidlitosphere Progressive Poem organized by author/poet, Irene Latham. (Click here to learn more.) Many of us have signed up to provide a line for the 2019 poem. Author/poet Matt Forrest Esenwine kicked things off this morning with some familiar “found” phrases merged to get us going. I’m excited to provide the 14th line on Sunday, April 14th. I hope you’ll join us to see what happens! Here’s the itinerary for the poem.
April
1 Matt @Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme
2 Kat @Kathryn Apel
3 Kimberly @KimberlyHutmacherWrites
4 Jone @DeoWriter
5 Linda @TeacherDance
6 Tara @Going to Walden
7 Ruth @thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown
8 Mary Lee @A Year of Reading
9 Rebecca @Rebecca Herzog
10 Janet F. @Live Your Poem
11 Dani @Doing the Work that Matters
12 Margaret @Reflections on the Teche
13 Doraine @Dori Reads
14 Christie @Wondering and Wandering
15 Robyn @Life on the Deckle Edge
16 Carol @Beyond LiteracyLink
17 Amy @The Poem Farm
18 Linda @A Word Edgewise
19 Heidi @my juicy little universe
20 Buffy @Buffy’s Blog
21 Michelle @Michelle Kogan
22 Catherine @Reading to the Core
23 Penny @a penny and her jots
24 Tabatha @The Opposite of Indifference
25 Jan @Bookseestudio
26 Linda @Write Time
27 Sheila @Sheila Renfro
28 Liz @Elizabeth Steinglass
29 Irene @Live Your Poem
30 Donna @Mainely Write
Wondering and Wandering 
I wish to step right into this lovely spring scene, Christie. Your walks inform your writing in a beautiful way. xx
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Thanks, Amy. I was hoping for a paint color mentioning fairies, too! 🙂
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I love that you’re doing fingernail polish colors, too! Yesterday my hyacinths had to hunker down because we had SNOW FLURRIES! Nature’s one-day-early April Fools Day prank!
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I love how you wove these colors together to make a beautiful scene.
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Love the garden fairies and the fern canopies. And your badge is great. I need to work on mine a bit. Too many balls in the air.
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Seeing your Facebook post was the final nudge I needed to try this out, Christie. Your sample color names are so lovely and you’ve crafted such a beautiful poem from them. Ethereal. My paint names were mostly much more mundane and my poem went in a direction that leaves me slightly concerned for my mental health. But, I did have fun 🙂 Thanks! Also, I’m uber- impressed with your determination to write every day this month. Again!
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Yeah! Glad you felt the nudge from down here. 🙂
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