My #NaPoWriMo Poem-A-Day project is Playing With Poetry. I am tagging along with Margaret Simon, Jone MacCulloch, Molly Hogan, 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.
These four words spoke to me last night as I began the play. I’m on spring break now, so I’m excited to play even more over the next nine days!
A peek into my poem and process:
- Every spring I can’t wait for it to be warm enough to sleep with a window open. I always feel like I sleep better with fresh air gently streaming in and out.
- The open window brings the outside in and beckons for me to go out, which is most welcome after a long cold winter here in New England.
- To prepare, I wrote in my NPM project notebook the things that an open spring window let’s me hear, smell, and see that a closed winter window does not allow. The initial list was long, but as I wrote, what seemed to be the most important items floated to the top.
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And introducing….
On April 1, 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’s line comes from Doraine Bennett. You can find her line here. She’s sending us up into the sky today. Participants are having fun combining two found phrases in favorite song lyrics. I’m excited to provide the 14th line tomorrow on Sunday, April 14th. I hope you’ll join us to see what happens! Here’s the itinerary for the rest of 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 
An opened window is the best part of spring! Welcome the sounds and the smells, a feast for the senses.
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