Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a living poem. Some people like to live it up, while others focus solely on being alive. Alive! Alive!”He’s alive and I’m forgiven. Heaven’s gates are open wide.”Words in a country-gospel songabout when Jesus died.It’s written by Don Francisco,(Simon Peter’s point of view),But the words…
Here is the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a memory poem. It could be an actual memory from your childhood, last week, or earlier this morning. Or the memory could be made up. Or the memory is just a starting point for a completely different poem. Back When…Back when I was…
The 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a (blank) Better poem. (Possible titles might include: “Be Better,” “Write Better,” “Wanting Better,” and/or “There’s Nothing Better.” It’s Better with ButterOh, that lovely golden churnThe condiment for which I yearn.Its creamy, salty, melty touchOn my toast and buns and such,In my mouth and on my…
Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. Today’s prompt is a two-for-Tuesday prompt. Write a love poem, and/or… Write an anti-love poem. Love or Not?He loves me. He loves me not?I sin. I don’t do as I ought.But on the cross, He says He bought.Salvation’s forgiveness that I sought.I love Him. How can I show it?I…
Here is the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a major event poem. Oh, WOW!I gasp and stutter and lisp,For today I saw an eclipse.The sun was goneBut not for longIt returned, its edges all crisp.
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a luck poem…good or bad. Luck or No!Luck, luck,A jack-buck’s foot.A leaf of fourTwo knocks on wood.Salt thrown backFingers crossedA copper pennyBon chance!All for naughtOr so I thoughtMy head is totteryI won the lottery!
By Jean Webster (Author), Jo Karabasz (Narrator), SAGA Egmont (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Such a sweet story! It is simply chapters of letters that orphan Judy Abbot writes to her unnamed benefactor, who found her in an orphanage and paid for her college education after reading a simple humorous short story she wrote. The only stipulation was that she write…
Write a poem every day of April with the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a minimum poem. (Some people only do the minimum; others like to pay the minimum. A few earn a minimum wage. Kids had to reach a minimum height to ride.) To meThe minimum I can doWrite one…
By Lee Goldberg (Author), Angela Brazil (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) An audiobook review Two different Monks! I’d never read that Adrian Monk turned into “The Monkster” when he took his phobia-calming drug before flying. It was hilarious. It was also interesting to see how he solved murders as Mr. Monk, a consultant to the San Francisco Police Department, and…
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