Saturday, April 1, 2023

NaPoWriMo April 1

For National Poetry Month I will try to write a poem a day using the golden shovel form. This form takes a line of text, usually from a poem, and write your own poem with the first word of the text becoming the last word of the first line of your poem, the second word of the text becoming the last word of the second line of your poem, and so on. I will be using New York Times headlines as my source material, inspired by a New York Times suggestion in the middle of the pandemic.

 

On a sunny day in April, for

Children and oldsters tired of the cold, some

Take their political signs that show GOP

Support, while others’ signs are from voters

Who oppose. Diehards feel no fatigue

In the fight for justice. What slows

Is the endless fight against the rich, who rush

To grab the most, leaving scraps to

Trickle down to the rest of us, our back

Against the wall, wanting to ignore the ex-president.

 

Source: For Some GOP Voters, Fatigue Slows Rush to Back Ex-president.


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