If you’ve played before, you know the routine.. If this is your first time, here’s the drill…
May is a dual celebration with the release of Kathryn Apel’s This is the Mud!,
a humorous rhyming picture book, and Sally Murphy’s Pearl Verses the World,
To celebrate, each Sunday in May we are inviting blog readers to have some fun by responding – in verse – to some prompts. You can choose your style – either free verse (unrhyming) or rhyming verse. This is your chance to prove that your preferred form is the best.
If you want to respond in free verse, please post your response on Sally’s blog, and if writing in rhyme, you can post at Kathryn’s blog.
The next day – Monday – we’ll post the verses in a new post for all to see.
Here are the rules:
1. There is no ‘right’ answer to the prompt. Be creative.
2. Limit your response to twelve lines (so there is room for everyone’s response)
3. You can respond in either free verse or rhymed verse. If you’d like to do both, post each at the appropriate blog.
4. This is your work, so add your name, and a link to your website or blog, if you’d like.
5. Everyone is a winner! But there is no winner.
Got it? Great. Then here goes with the new prompt…
Post your poem in the comments below if you’re writing in free verse. Or visit Kathryn’s blog to post your rhyme.
So are you versed in rhyme – or free? May is your chance to find out!
crabform beads
expelled
onto sea-smooth sand
tunnel refuse
unburied treasure
Split jewels
seaweed pearls
flaunting undersea treasure
waiting for the tide
to reclasp
into necklaces
that buoy and glint.
‘Is this a doodle
I see before me?’
‘Nay, Hamlet, nay.
Tis but a Collywoggle
Calling its young
to a picnic
on the beach.’
Mabel Kaplan
http://belka37.blogspot.com
nothing indefinite
about tunnel hole
only the grain dribblings
sand scribblings
creating an address
sand sculptures
litter the beach
like jellyfish
cast ashore
in high
tide
Imagination coupled
with a careless finger-doodle
brings a chance of forces meeting
as dragons in the sand