HAPPY POETRY FRIDAY

   The weather in Tucson has been quite delightful.  Yesterday we were at 80 degrees and it is supposed to be that warm again today.  It is quite spring like here,  so I've written half a dozen spring haiku for today.

Searching for good luck
my friends and I try to find
a four leaf clover.

A red lady bug
wiggles and tickles my arm
she's climbing higher.

Spring rains bring puddles.
I wear my new rubber boots,
will they get dirty?

Time to go shopping.
We are looking at the mall
for Easter dresses.

With our roller skates
we cruise the old neighborhood
while watching for cracks.

A happy May Day
I wear ribbons in my hair
to dance the May Pole.



   I have been reading picture books written in haiku lately and several use the American traditional haiku of 5-7-5.  Five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five syllables in the last line.  This is all fine, but I've also noticed some awkward line breaks in some of the haiku to keep to the syllabics.  Ending a line on an article, a preposition or a conjunction makes for a VERY weak line. 
   So here is your poetry challenge for today, try writing your own haiku about what the weather is like where you are.  Try to keep to the 5-7-5 syllable scheme and DO NOT end a line with an article, a preposition or a conjunction.  If you'd like to share your haiku, please leave it in the comments.  Due to COPPA laws, if you are under 13 years of age, please have a teacher or parent leave your comment.
   The Poetry Friday Round Up is being hosted by  Elizabeth Steinglass today.  You'll find more poetry at her blog here.   Thanks for a great party. 

HAPPY EASTER

All the children
Pick up Easter baskets,
Reach for colored eggs hidden
In bushes, trees and on the
Lawn, to wish you

HAPPY EASTER

      Did you see the lunar eclipse last night?  Can you write a poem about the moon?
 

FIVE LITTLE RABBITS

Five little rabbits
climb through the warren door,
one hops off
then there were four.

Four little rabbits
hop round the mesquite tree,
one jumps away
then there were three.

Three little rabbits
hop in the morning dew,
one nibbles grass
then there were two.

Two  little rabbits
having so much fun
see a wild coyote,
off they run.

One  little rabbit
drinks from the pond, so blue,
he jumps over
to wish
HOPPY EASTER
to you.


     I hope you have a great day.  My husband is making hot cross buns for breakfast and we're eating outside because it is such a lovely day.  Your challenge for today is to write a poem about a rabbit.  Have a hopping good time.  I hope you're surrounded by lots of good eggs.

Happy Easter

My Easter pin wheel

spins in the wind

going round and round.

It whirs and whizzes

in the wind.

Oh, what a wonderful sound. 

   I hope you are having a great day.  Did you get a chocolate bunny?  I remember when I was a little girl about 10 years old the Newberry's Five and Dime store in my little town had chocolate eggs for sale and for 50 cents extra you could get the lady to pipe white frosting in your name on the egg.   I thought that was the most wonderful thing.  So I saved my allowance and bought an egg for my mom and had the lady write MOM on it.  The lady was so impressed that I'd saved my money in the first place to spend it on my mom that she didn't charge me for the piped frosting.  Do you have memories of past Easters?  What did you do or are you doing to make today memorable?  Perhaps you can write a poem to save today's memories.  Ah, you knew I was going to do that, so give it a try and let me see your creation.  Have fun with your family and friends and your writing.

Happy Easter

I'm still working on acrostics.  Searching for just the right poem.
Today I thought I'd try a mesostich.  If the middle letter of each line spells out a word, this is called a mesostich. 

So let's see if this works.

Happy Easter

I'm hunting

  for my EastEr Eggs

  to put them in my bAsket. Look low. 

     Look in, and out.   Search in the roots

of the old sycamore Tree. Look high. 

   Look around everywhEre, found each egg.

              Sit to rest. Oh deaR, found one more.        
        I sat on it.

  Have you ever accidentally sat on an egg?  I did.  I was so embarrassed.  I also tried to make this a concrete poems.  Do you think I was successful?  

  So now it is your turn.  Can you write a mesostich?  Or try a  telestich where the last letter of each line spells out a word.  Challenge yourself.  I'm sure you can do this.  Have fun.  Please share your poems with me.