wee words for wee ones: April 2021

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picture + form = Going Up

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

23 April: Slow Burn

24 April: haiku

25 April: Love with a Capital J

26 April: Call Me Maybe

27 April: Pointed Reminder

28 April 2021 picture + form: Going Up

picture: pixabay

poetic form: Fibonacci poetry

was founded by Gregory Pincus
6-line poem that follows the Fibonacci sequence for syllable count per line:

1 syllable for first line
1 syllable for second line
2 syllables for third
3 syllables for fourth
5 syllables for fifth
8 syllables for sixth

picture + form = Pointed Reminder

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

23 April: Slow Burn

24 April: haiku

25 April: Love with a Capital J

26 April: Call Me Maybe

27 April 2021 picture + form: Pointed Reminder

Bee

careful

where you walk.

A bee-dazzled friend

wants to remind you

to bee the change you want

to see by putting the past

bee-hind you and doing your own

sting on the buzzy flight path of life.

picture: chalk bee drawn on the sidewalk path outside our building

poetry form: Nonet

nine line poem
first line has 1 syllable, second has 2, third has 3, etc. until have 9 syllables
can count from 9 syllables down to 1, as well

picture + form = Call Me Maybe

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

23 April: Slow Burn

24 April: haiku

25 April: Love with a Capital J

26 April 2021 picture + form: Call Me Maybe

picture: pixabay

poetry form: Numbers Poem

write phone number vertically
number of words in each line corresponds to each number

picture + form = Love with a Capital J

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

23 April: Slow Burn

24 April: haiku

25 April 2021 picture + form: Love with a Capital J

Joe

picture: my Joe modeling the latest in leather motorcycle wear

poetry form: (short) Love Poem

communicates a specific aspect of being in love

_______ + form = haiku

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

23 April: Slow Burn

Wednesday morning

child jumps on the trampoline

bounce back from illness

24 April 2021 ~~picture~~ + form: haiku

picture: none as haiku isn't paired with a picture, but if it was, then it is a haiga

poetic form: haiku

short form poetry originally from Japan
3 lines/phrases
17 syllables (5, 7, 5) but can vary

Shout out to Poetry Across the World Critique (PAWC) Group member, Kathleen for her invaluable feedback on this poem! Thank you!

picture + form = Slow Burn

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

23 April 2021 picture + form: Slow Burn

Dear Mr. Böögg,

Thank you for burning for close to 13 minutes during the 2021 Sechseläuten Festiva l!

As a sign of the times, you even got 'infected' with the Corona Virus. You are brave.

But we have to say, Covid was a creepy looking dude - kind of like Shrek if Shrek had really bad burning acne.

We know we're in Switzerland, ahem, but he needs to watch how much he smokes.

Thank you also for being a good sport about being relocated to the mountains of Uri instead of 'getting lit' in Zurich.

And now you're a television star! We had a great time watching you burn on live TV since spectators couldn't watch in person because of Covid restrictions.

Always a bright side. All of your sides were BRIGHT!

We know slow burning is probably not a lot of fun, but at least your prognostication has nothing to do with coming out of a hole and seeing your shadow or being called a hog!

Böögg sounds so much better.

We look forward to enjoying the summer weather you predicted.

Warmly (see what we did there?),

Residents of Switzerland

picture: time lapsed screen shots Joe took during the live broadcast

poetry form: Epistolary Poem

poem that reads as a letter
can be intimate, colloquial, formal, etc
can take any form

😀Final Call for Submissions for 10.10 Poetry Anthology the replacement category:

tenth ________ (ie: time, kid, of an inch, place, etc.)

Submissions due by Friday 30 April 2021: 10(dot)10(dot)weewords(dot)submission(at)gmail(dot)com.

All poets, successful or not, will hear back by the end of June 2021.

Publication date is October 2021.

Accepted poems will receive a one-time honorarium of $10/poem upon publication.

Join Catherine at Reading to the Core for all the Poetry Friday goodness!

picture + form = Seymour (See-more) the Cat

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

22 April 2021picture + form: Seymour (See-more) the Cat

blind

cat

darts

eagerly

forward -

galumphing

happily

into

jean-clad

knees

loudly

mewing,

nuzzling

passersby

quaking (with)

rapture

seeking

tenderness (from)

unseen

visitors

with

exposed

yearning (and)

zealousness

picture: our neighborhood (blind) cat we have dubbed Seymour (See-more)

poetic form: abecedarian poetry

a poem constrained by the alphabet
each line starts with a successive letter of the alphabet
can be a single word (mostly in my case)
or phrases

picture + form = RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April: Britney

21 April 2021 picture + form: RIP Troll-like Shakespearean Character

picture: pixabay for tombstone / Zug storefront window for gnome

poetic form: Epitaph

short poem
can be rhymed
clever wordplay
draws on tradition of old time tombstones

picture + form = Britney

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April: Böögg

20 April 2021 picture + form: Britney

picture: pixabay picture of a Britney Spears wax figure

poetic form: Clerihew

two rhyming couplets that poke gentle fun at a celebrity
first line is always celebrity's name

picture + form = Böögg

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April: Two Tired Together

19 April 2021 picture + form: Böögg

The Swiss use an exploding snowman,

instead of a prognosticating groundhog.

How long it burns decides summer's plan.

The Swiss use an exploding snowman,

a sleeve of goosebumps or a suntan?

Just give us a reprieve from the fog!

The Swiss use an exploding snowman,

instead of a prognosticating groundhog.

picture: pixabay had an actual picture of a Böögg used

in the Zurich Sechseläuten festival that takes place on

the 3rd Monday of April at 6pm

(in 2021 it is being televised because of Corona)

poetic form: Triolet

8 line poem
line 1 repeats as lines 4 and 7
line 2 repeats as line 8
has the rhyme scheme abaaabab

picture + form = Two Tired Together

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April: Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Face

14 April: Let's Dance!

15 April:Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April: Unstable Connection

18 April 2021 picture + form: Two Tired Together

picture: pixabay

poetic form: Skinny Poem

short, fixed form poem
consists of 11 lines
line 1 and 11 can be any length and must repeat
lines 2 through 10 are one word

picture + form = Unstable Connection

(i)*National Poetry Month 2021

To celebrate I am sharing a picture and poetic form - everyday in April!

1 April: Lizard Toe

2 April: Open Wide

3 April: Who Am I?

4 April: Cone-y Island Dog

5 April: Happy Birthday, Colleen!

6 April: Watermark Moon

7 April: GOTCHA!

8 April: Snow Kidding

9 April: I 'der' to Learn German

10 April: Labyrinth Enlightenment

11 April: Hoverbird

12 April:Lucky Ducky

13 April: Stone Faced

14 April:Let's Dance!

15 April: Optimism

16 April: Seek and Ye Shall Find

17 April 2021 picture + form: Unstable Connection

picture: pixabay

poetic form: Limerick

a 5-line poem
with rhyme scheme aabba
bouncy rhythm
usually humorous