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July 1, 2020
Poetry Challenge #146-Happy Creative Ice Cream Flavors Day!
Summer and ice cream go together. What kind of ice cream is your favorite? Vanilla? Chocolate? Razzle Dazzle? Tutti-Frutti? Moose Tracks? Peanut Butter and Jelly?
What do you choose if you go to an ice cream stand? If you made up a new flavor, what kind would it be? No comb...
June 24, 2020
Poetry Challenge #145-Too Darn HOT
Some days it’s just too darn HOT! So hot you stick to every chair. So hot you can’t move. So hot it feels like you’re melting.
Writers use figurative language to convey feeling. They compare things in new and unusual ways. Similes ...
June 17, 2020
Poetry Challenge #144-Global Garbage Collector Day
Boy howdy, where would we be without those garbage trucks to roll down the street gobbling up trash! Buried under piles heaps mounds of smelly yuck is where. Pee-yew!
It’s not easy or safe being a garbage collector. In fact, it’s one of the “Deadliest jobs in America”—and that was before CoVid struck.
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June 10, 2020
Poetry Challenge #143-Click My Bic
There’s a saying that “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Before ballpoint pens, people used fountain pens—pens that needed to be dipped or refilled with ink and whose sharp points worked only on paper. If you wanted to write on any other surface (wood, coarse wrapping paper, leather) you were out of luck.
The first pa...
June 3, 2020
Poetry Challenge #142-You Can Say That Again...
“Play it again, Sam!”
Today is National Repeat Day! (What? Care to repeat that?) Today is National Repeat Day. As if we need an excuse, it’s a day set aside for folks to “seek out activities and experiences” to do over again. Repeating a root canal or Hurricane Katrina...
May 26, 2020
Poetry Challenge #141-Grape Popsicles!
It rarely freezes in San Francisco, but boy, when it does . . . Grape Popsicle!
Here’s the story: in 1905, 11-year old Frank Epperson “was outside on his porch, mixing water with a powdered flavoring to make soda. Upon going inside, he left it there on the porch wit...
May 20, 2020
Poetry Challenge #140-ARRRRROOOOO! for Rescue Dogs!
Have you ever rescued a dog or do you know a rescue dog? The ones I know are wonderful—and lucky. They have nice homes after starting out in less than perfect situations. They’re smart and happy and full of love.
Poetry Challenge #140 ARRRRROOOOO! for Rescue Dogs! In honor of National Rescue Dog Day* , celebrated every 20th...May 13, 2020
Poetry Challenge #139-It Jumped How Far?
As long as toad have been croaking, frogs (and kids) have been jump-jump-jumping!
And, every May 13th, in honor of Mark Twains first published short story, Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog (better known as The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County or The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County) folks have been celebrating frog jumping day.
According to the Guinness Book of Records, the longest frog jump on record...
May 7, 2020
Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 42 Lockdown: Hello Sunshine!
In his daily report, NY Gov. Cuomo heralded The Season starting: Now, through August 12th, sunsets will be 8 p.m. or later. Change is in the air: bulbs are bobbing, birds are chirping, trees are blooming. Speaking of trees: check out my baby apple tree! The kids gave it to us 3 years ago and see my tree/how big its grown/well friendstake Bobby! Really, how could I resist?)
NY: Number of new COVid-19 hospitalizations continues to...
May 6, 2020
Poetry Challenge #138-I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change
I cant write five words but that I change sevenDorothy Parker
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.Katherine Paterson.
Poetry Challenge #138
I Love You, Youre Perfect, Now Change!
One of the best things to do to make a poem better is revise it.
First, read your poem aloud. If it sounds good, reads well, great! Now try to make it even better by doing the following:
Can you replace weak words with...
