18/31 What I did in February

       Wow! It's Day Eighteen of the Slice of Life Challenge at Two Writing Teachers! I hope everyone is so proud of themselves! Thanks again, Dana, Anna, Tara, Betsy, Beth and Stacey!
                In addition to all the writing of posts, and writing assignments for my work, in February I was intrigued and a little batty because when I started responding to Laura Shovan's birthday month celebration, I just couldn't stop. Laura, among her many other responsibilities, writes a terrific blog titled Author Amok, and each February she creates a challenge during her birthday month. Last year she connected to postcards, and this past month it was all about Pantone colors. You can find all about it here! There were a few days skipped, either because Laura was out of town or because I couldn't seem to connect with the color of the day, but I wrote 21 poems for Laura's celebration last month. There were others who participated too, like Diane Mayr at Random Noodling who won the prize for most written with 26 poems and Margaret Simon, whom I think many of you know at ReflectionsOnTheTeche. Others joined in occasionally, all with wonderfully written poems connected to a color or the color's name. I am proud of a few poems and not so proud of others, but it was great fun to write this time to a prompt, and to write fast!  I'd like to share one of the poems written because so many of you are teachers and you will connect to it, especially if you teach older students. The color's name was Stormy Weather. The idea is to write to connect to the prompt and one must include the name somehow in the poem, or at least something close to the name. We took a few liberties on occasion.

Don’t Know Why…

Sunday crunch-

weekend flew,

cloudy words:

“Homework due!”
            stormy weather

Chapter two-

history,

darkened sky:

“It’s a mystery.”

             stormy weather

Analyze

poem’s rhyme,

lightning strike:

“I don’t have time.”

            stormy weather

Write bio-

famous guy

raining hard:

“Now I sigh.”

            stormy weather

Teenager

turns out light

advisory:

“Good night, good night.”

             stormy weather

Linda Baie ©All Rights Reserved

           Monday evening, the March Madness Poetry tournament hosted by Ed DeCaria began, and I received my word. I'll be writing my poem all day Tuesday and send it off early Wednesday morning.  Sixty-four “authletes” are competing in poetry.  This is my third year, and I made the second round in the first year, not so fortunate last year. But it is fun, and I'm happy I am included! I hope my practice in February will help!