7-MINUTE STRETCH: Poetry Challenge #2--Easy as ABC

Know how sometimes just the thought of doing something will stop you cold? (Maybe, if you read the Challenge I tossed out in my last post, it did.) You are so not alone! I am not a poet. Worse, I'm a lousy poet. So you can believe 548+ days ago, when my mentor, author Mary Quattlebaum , sweetly suggested poetry might help my writing and suggested I "try" some poetry prompts, I wanted to run.The only thing that kept me from say @#$*NO! and running away (aside from shame) was that timer. That go...