Mail of a different sort!
Tabatha Yeatts has created a link to poems teachers and librarians can print for poetry month, titled "Poetry in The Halls". I'm grateful to be one of the poets!
Tabatha Yeatts has created a link to poems teachers and librarians can print for poetry month, titled "Poetry in The Halls". I'm grateful to be one of the poets!
Jama Rattigan has a post HERE with many poets' goals for April.
The Progressive Poem schedule can be found on the right.
On Poetry Friday, Elaine Magliaro shared a few of her rhyming acrostics. They are so clever and you can see that post here. And not long after I read it, I walked to get the mail and wrote about my view in the evenings when I go. (My mailbox is in a bank of boxes about a short block away with a sunset view.)
Yesterday, I also walked for my mail and the best thing about it was the brief exercise, second best was that I found a poem in it, too! I received so much junk mail that I thought I'd use Elaine's poems as inspiration. I didn't rhyme, but know you'll get the point.
Boxed In
J ust one
U nderlying message,
N ot to be missed!
K indly reply.
M ake our day.
A fter signing up, after purchase,
I t will change your
L ife
Linda Baie ©
Very clever and you have summed it up perfectly!!! I get soooooo much of this type of mail! My mailbox is stuffed with election flyers right now! I can't wait for the election to be over!
ReplyDeleteMine is full of the flyers, too. Ballots are due soon, guess they want to catch us at the last minute! Thanks, Carol
DeleteSo happy to hear that my acrostics inspired your "Junk Mail" poem! I think we can all relate to it. I get more junk than "real" mail on a daily basis. And my "spam" email is even worse.
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, the 'spam', maybe another acrostic will arrive, Elaine. Thanks for the inspiration!
DeleteHad to smile at the cleverness of your acrostic; makes me feel better about all the junk mail we receive somehow . . . :)
ReplyDeletePutting a humorous spin does help! Thanks, Jama
DeleteA just right junk mail acrostic. So many promises.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Margaret!
DeleteYour poem is delightful Linda, even if the junk mail isn't. I wonder who buys into this. People obviously do or they wouldn't continue.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cheriee, yes, I imagine it does work & some look carefully at the offers.
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