This is the poem I wrote for Diane Mayr for the Winter Poem Swap that Tabatha organized. (click to enlarge) Tabatha prompted us to
Write a twelve-line poem in which the first word of each line starts with the same letter (e.g. all of your lines start with "A") and the last word of each line starts with the same letter (e.g. all lines end with words that begin with "B").As you can see, I didn't manage to hit the prompt right on the nose!
Tonight I will celebrate the Solstice with close friends. We will eat Navajo stew and sage bread, and the Kachinas, who left at the Summer Solstice and took light and life with them, will come back bearing gifts and the promise of spring.
Our Solstice Poetry Friday Roundup Hostess is Heidi, at My Juicy Little Universe.
Speaking of Summer Solstice, we need to line up Poetry Friday roundup hosts for the first half of 2013! Leave your choice of Fridays in the comments -- I'll update the calendar on Saturday.
January
4 Matt at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme
11 Renee at No Water River
18 Violet at Violet Nesdoly / Poems
25 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
February
1 April at Teaching Authors
8 Tara at A Teaching Life
15 Linda at TeacherDance
22 Sheri at Sheri Doyle
March
1 Julie at The Drift Record
8 Heidi at My Juicy Little Universe
15 Jone at Check it Out
22 Greg at Gotta Book
29 Mary Lee at A Year of Reading
April
5 Robyn at Read, Write, Howl
12 Diane at Random Noodling
19 Irene at Live Your Poem...
26 Laura at Writing the World for Kids
May
3 Liz at Growing Wild
10 Anastasia at Booktalking
17 Ed at Think Kid, Think!
24 Jama at Jama's Alphabet Soup
31 Betsy at Teaching Young Writers
June
7 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
14 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
21 Carol at Carol's Corner
28 Amy at The Poem Farm