Poetry Challenge #122-Here's To Bagels, Hats & Bagel Hats!
Full disclosure: It’s early and I am hungry.
Furthermore: I am craving a bagel.
Add to that: I didn’t have a clear idea of what this week’s 7-minute challenge should be so I did what I often do when I need inspiration, or a laugh, or to shake my head at some of the silly, fun, delightful…. odd ideas humans dream up to use as excuses for holidays. I consulted the National Day Calendar.
Helpful hint: you can search subjects or dates or categories willy-nilly and someone somewhere will have created a holiday for it. Try it sometime (not now.) And, as you read on, remember where I began…
SUCCESS! SURPRISE! DELISH-DELIGHT!
January 15th, is both National Hat Day and National Bagel Day. I’ve given some thought the matter and still, I have absolutely no idea what hats and bagels have to do with each other…except, of course, that everyone hungry/bagel-crazed enough to be bageling on the streets of Manhattan in the winter chill is wearing—or should be wearing—a hat. Maybe you’ll have a better idea:
Poetry Challenge #122
Hat’s Off to Bagels, Hats & Bagel Hats
Think of words that have to do with either hat or bagel.
Come up with words to describe your pick, words you think of when you have one or the other, or words that bagels and/or hats bring to mind.
Now use those words to form a shape poem. Fit the words into either the shape of a bagel or the shape of a hat. Make it beautiful!
Einstein’s Bagels is a Texas fav.
Set your timer for 7 minutes
Don’t think about it too much; just do it!
Start writing!
As soon as I finish my poem, guess where I’m going? Why don’t you join me? On the way there I’ll wear a hat; on the way home, I’ll be wearing a bagel—with creme cheese!
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge sooooooo many bagels ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us by writing a poem, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.