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Poetry Challenge: Hope Lives
Today marks the 18th Anniversary of the September 11 attacks, a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States. “The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Additional people died of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years following the attacks.” The site of the World Trade Center “Twin Towers” is now the September 11 Memorial and Museum.
Poetry Challenge #104
Hope Lives
To mark this day let’s create prayer poems with hopes and wishes for children of today living in the post 9-11 world.
With sympathy and strength to all who lost loved ones in this and other senseless acts of violence. Sending love love, light and strength for a brighter, understanding, compassionate world.
Poetry Challenge #103-Back to School
Bennett’s 1st Day of 1st Grade (Jack, too)
School bells are ringing, schedules are made, new pens and pencils and notebooks full of blank pages fill bright, new backpacks.
Poetry Challenge #103
Back to School
Write a poem about the beginning of the school year—or the beginning of any school year you remember. Are you excited/scared/worried? Does anything surprise you? What do you like best? Least?
Ready for School!
Try writing your poem in couplets—two lines that rhyme. See what happens if you take two couplets and use the first lines from each and then the second lines from each so every other line rhymes.
Which poem do you like better?
*Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1200 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.
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Poetry Challenge #102-Worker's Holiday
Labor Day, called by some the “Worker’s Holiday,” is celebrated the first Monday in September in the U.S. and was signed into law on June 28, 1894, by President Grover Cleveland.
Up until that time workers in America (including children as young as five) toiled twelve hours a day, seven days a week to eke out a living.
Child Labor laws in other places???
Nowadays, thanks to the efforts of those early labor movement organizers, we Americans take fairer work conditions for granted.
Poetry Challenge #102
Workers Unite for Worker’s Rights
For the sake of this prompt, let’s pretend we are one of those early labor organizers, making up a chant for the Labor Day Rally.
According to Merriam-Webster, “a chant is a repeated rhythmic phrase, typically one shouted or sung in unison by a crowd.” Chants are short. (One or two lines at most), set to a definite march beat. Often they rhyme.
Hint: It might be easiest to find rhymes first. To that end list words that rhyme with labor, day, work, or others that come to mind when you think of Labor Day.
Ready, Set, March!
Set the timer for 7 minutes
Start writing!
Don’t think about it too much; just do it.
*Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 1200 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.
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Poetry Challenge #101-End of Summer
Sun Setting on Summer in WHB
It’s hard to believe summer is coming to an end. Long, sunny days are growing shorter. Nights are cooler. Trips to the beach or pool are less frequent (or maybe more…)
What signs tell you that summer is almost over? Back to school sales? The one branch of red leaves? Geese flying overhead?
What do you do to celebrate the end of summer? Take one last swim or hike? Bake (or eat) one more pie? Have one more campfire and roasted marshmallow?
One last swim…