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I am very pleased to announce that TEACHERS FIRST.com chose my poem, "Buggy Alphabetics," as a teaching poem on their website.
Click on the link to TeachersFirst.com and scroll down the page a bit for a quick hands-on poetry lesson featuring my poem--so wonderfully illustrated on my website by Nikki Schaefer. Of course, you'll want to visit my acrobatic bugs in the Writings section of my website, so you can enjoy the slideshow as well.
If you want to try an ABCEDARIAN--an alphabetic poem that uses the letters A-Z in proper order as the first letters of every line--start with only a few letters. As you become more comfortable with this poetic challenge, see how far you can go--alphabetically--with your lines. In a new Abcedarian I created below, I give myself a little leeway with an extra word, here and there, after the main letter word on a few lines. I also use two semi-invented words. (Can you find them?) That's why poetry is so much fun--it's puzzles and puns and wordplay all wrapped up in the coolest formats.
Give an ABCEDARIAN a try!
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FEATHERED FESTIVITIES
A
Bright
Cardinal--
Dressed
Elegantly--
For the Festivities,
Gathered
Holly berries
In a
Jaunty
Kitbag
Loaded with
Miscellaneous
Nuts and
Offerings,
Perfect
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Very nice. I especially love the line, "Do you mark my turning?" as well as the absolution imagery.
Did I ever tell you how much a fan I am? Love, love, love the "shape" of this poem.
ooh, another good one. Thanks, Sara.
Lovely. Love it.
And I wonder too whether or not to pull the right pants leg back through, and whether to turn all those cycling shorts to rights. Usually I do it without thinking. Funny how, when I think about it, I get angry and feel slighted -- and how hubby thinks not a thing. And he doesn't mark my turning, anymore than he marks his own.
" or does absolution unfold against your skin and dress you unawares?"
Love the powerful last stanza. Your poems turn my mind inside out. Thanks for keeping my brain in tune!
I really admire how you take such simple subject matter and make them artistic.
Great Work!
This is great. What a great metaphor for all those petty domestic grievances.
Thanks, everyone. I didn't know if a "concrete" poem would keep its formatting in Blogger, but this one seemed to hold its form okay.
Kelly, glad to know it's not just me. I actually wrote this one several years ago after doing the laundry and I WAS irritated, but as usual, the poem took hold of me and forced me to see all the many, many silly things I've been absolved of without my ever knowing. For which I'm beyond grateful.
Wonderful, Sara. I can just picture the moment.
I am not the one who does laundry in our house and now I have so much more appreciation for the one who does have that job...
Thank you so much for this beauty.
Sara,
I love the original poems you post here. I look forward to reading more!
I do love this. It makes me glad I didn't out out one of my own this week; I couldn't pull off anything like this, npi.
We wrap our loved ones in all kinds of unspoken gestures, don't we?!?!
This is deLIGHTful. I'm going to go do a load of laundry now. With pleasure...