Good morning, Poetry People! Just three more days and we'll be wrapping our prompt session for the year. I'll start publishing poems to promote Soul Ink 2 when I receive word which if any of my poems have been selected to appear.
I haven't been doing a very good job of promoting my books lately. However, I have been working on bringing my anxiety under control so I don't wake up every morning feeling like I'm about to pitch a panic attack. Marketing and networking are very stressful for me and sometimes I have to take a step back. That being said, let's get to it!
Today's April PAD Challenge prompt asks participants to pen a remix poem. I always save this prompt until the end of the challenge.
Today's NaPoWriMo prompt invites poets to create an American sonnet. The American sonnet has fewer rules than a traditional sonnet. NaPoWriMo suggested the following site for inspiration on writing your own American sonnet.
My sonnet was about my father and his thoughts on elm trees. He was fond of the American elm but disliked the Siberian variety.
There is a Siberian elm outside my window. It isn't a pretty tree, but the birds like it.
The tree in the picture at the top of the post is a Camperdown elm.
I've enjoyed learning how many elms there are. I'm sure I will never remember all of them.
May 31 is my father's birthday. He would have been 88 this year.
~Ornery Owl Has Spoken~
Image by Lubos Houska on Pixabay
"A tree is a tree is a tree."
Here's the house music I was listening to while looking out the window at the cloudy skies and the Siberian elm in front of my house.
