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.
Today’s playful poetic offering is a paint chip-inspired tanka (5/7/5/7/7). I love the color green and am always amazed at the number of shades there are and their creative names. For more background information on the tanka form, click here.
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And introducing….
On Monday, the Poetry Friday family 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 with some familiar “found” phrases merged to get us going. Today our poetry pal from Down Under, Kat Apel, dives in. 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 
Thanks for this poem. I’m using it as a mentor text for our writing today. Introducing tanka and the haikubes.
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Yeah!!! Can’t wait to see what you come up with!
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You’ve inspired me to try writing tanka poems. I’ve got my notebook out and am excited to play with this format!
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I am also inspired to try a tanka as well. And its so true – green does breathe life into earth’s lungs – and ours, too!
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Okay, after reading several #playwithpoetryNPM posts, I paused to order haicubes and metaphor dice. I warned my husband. I should have kept the magnetic poetry kits from years ago. Anyway, love your tanka. Green is one of my favorite colors, too.
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Thank you, Christie, for always inspiring me to try new things!
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Artichoke olive and breathing into the earth’s lungs….love so much.
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