This is it! It’s the last day of National Poetry Month. My #NaPoWriMo Poem-A-Day project has been Playing With Poetry. I tagged along with Margaret Simon, Jone MacCulloch, Molly Hogan, and Mary Lee Hahn. We played with Haikubes, Magnetic Poetry (magnets and online), Metaphor Dice, and Paint Chip Poetry. I even threw in nail polish color names as inspiration, just for fun!
A peek into my poem and process:
- It’s been a long 61 straight days of writing and sharing. Sharing is the big piece. I write daily all year long, but for me. Not for anyone else.
- My journal and notebook are brimming with ideas for future Slices on Tuesdays and Poetry Fridays. See you soon!
- Thanks for reading and commenting for the last two months and beyond!
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And now for the final line of the …
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 final line comes from Donna at Mainely Write. You may find her line here on her blog and brilliant Donna set the whole poem to music, recorded it, and strums along on her ukelele. Amazing! Participants are having fun using song lyrics. I was excited to provide the 14th line on April 14th. You can read it here. Thanks for joining us on our sweet poem’s journey.
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 just love your poem, friend! Playing with poetry sounds like so much fun! I’m in next year!!!!
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Yay, Christie! What an accomplishment!
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Congratulations! This is an incredible accomplishment! I have enjoyed following you on this journey and being inspired to find my inner poet!
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Congratulations on 61 days, Christie! I’ve enjoyed dropping in this month on all of you who were “playing with poetry”
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