I love April because National Poetry Month comes round again. Check out Poets.org for more info on what this celebration is all about, and even find a link to 30 ways to celebrate the art of poetry.
At LegendFire, the moderator of our poetry forum has put together another month's worth of poetry prompts and inspiration. It's a great time to practice.
I wasn't home yesterday, so I missed the grand opening of LF's activities, but I got to dive in this morning. One of the prompts she provides today is: "Write a poem about one or more elements/forces of the weather. For example, rain, sleet, hail, tornadoes, clouds, wind, etc."
Now, I dread the coming of spring. In tornado alley, spring is the season to be watchful. This year might be the year, I say. Our town, our house, might lie in the path this time. And since today we are having our first threat of severe weather I chose to write about tornadoes and my first experience of running to a neighbor's storm shelter, which I blogged about last June.
So here I am, inflicting some really bad poetry on the readers of my blog. But it's for a good cause, right?
Prompt: Tornado
Style: haiku series
black afternoon sky
eyes raised to watch boiling clouds
a wail of sirens
running rabbit-like
a burrow deep underground
hail knocking on doors
morning in the sun
a palace where dreams are stored
strewn trash by nightfall
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| May 31, 2013. From our iPhone. Copyright 2013 Court Ellyn |
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