Day Thirty

Day Thirty-The End Poetry Is For Me My Tribute to National Poetry Month The learning has been fun, It’s challenged my brain I’ve learned I can do it, I don’t need to refrain We’ve done Bios and Ciquains, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Richtameter Who, What, Where, When, and Why poems We now think in Iambic Pentameter Penses Poems we did, are the Bomb! Credos and Tankas, and of course Haiku Shadowrama, Octopoems, made me work Senses and What if/I Might; I can do We’ve dealt with Five Lines, And then Nonets, and even a Triplet How about Couplets and Tyburns Windspark, and Poem in My Pocket For me Rhyme Royal reigned Supreme Acrostics and Free Verse were great It You Were and Tetractys, and then Diatelle poems kept us up late So whether in Terse Verse We claimed our soul’s styles We did our very best To meet Stephanie’s trials Stephanie’s our fearless leader These past seven years For without her guidance We’d all be in tears! Thanks Stephanie Peterson Abney for all your hard work!!

Day Twenty-Nine

Day 29-Bio Poem Known as Vicki, Gicki, Victoria, Tori, Mom, and Grandma Who is creative, happy, and loving Who enjoys being useful, creating things, using her talents, and loving God Who is able to do all these things because of a loving Father in Heaven Who feels like her life has purpose Who wonders sometimes if she makes enough of a difference in the world Who fears that in some ways she hasn’t Who cares about all of mankind and helping them in any way she can to bring them back to God Who dreams of an eternal home with her family around her

Another

Another cinquain begging to be written. Daughters Beautiful, creative Nurturing, gathering, wondering They show their love in so many ways Women

Day Twenty-Eight

Day Twenty-Eight- Cinquain Sons Helpful, joyful Loving, saving, offspring Are there for us in our needs Men

Day Twenty-Seven

Day Twenty-Seven Terse Verse What do you call a Spanish dessert foodie? Flan Fan More What do you call a locomotive filled with PhD Grads? Brain Train What do you call a discussion about fruit? Peach speech. I just thought of another one. What do you call a film from the 60s? Groovie movie

Day Twenty-Six

Day Twenty-Six-Synonyms or Antonyms Poetry REPENTANCE Penitence, contrition, regretful, remorseful, atonement The chance for us to change with love A gift from our Father in Heaven above REPENTANCE Penitance, contrition, regretful, remorseful, atonement A gift from our Father in Heaven, a covenant.

Day Twenty-Five

Day Twenty-Five-Credo Poem I believe in the supernal goodness of humanity The strive to do good The service of others The struggle to do what's right The scramble to rise above But I don't believe in sparing no effort on our goals I believe in showing love to others I believe in the strength to go the distance I believe in self-worth for people of all walks of life And I believe in seeking to be the good in the world

Day Twenty-Four

Day Twenty-Four-Diatelle Poem Eat Bacon Sizzlin' in My frying pan Good smells fill my kitchen Much tastier than Raisin Bran Why do you call my name? I need a plan How can I be good, when all I want is a treat The only thing I'll say, I know I can I can be strong and take a stand I can see a new Zen Be superman To be thin Again Sweet

Day Twenty-Three

Day Twenty-Three-Tetractys Poem Life And love Worth having Sometimes losing But always worth having to help us grow Without love every day in our lives We lose ourselves We need love Given Now

Day Twenty-Two

Day Twenty-Two- If you were poem If you were a firefly and I were a jar I’d catch you and keep you So you’d never be far

Day Twenty-One

Day Twenty-One-Free Verse To Sing To sing a song of praise Will always touch my heart It fills my soul with love And takes me back to Him The One who saved my soul From an abyss so dark I'm thankful He loves me And I want to let Him know So I will sing His songs As often as I can That way He'll always know I'm grateful for His Life.

Day Twenty

Day Twenty-Acrostic Poem Dogs that love is Always at our side Couldn't be any sweeter Happy to be loved Silly when they want to be Hear every sound outside Unwavering loyalty Never want to loose them Down low to the ground So glad we learned to love them.

Day Nineteen

Day Nineteen-Rhyme Royal Septet Easter Easter is the best season of the year We worship our Savior and Lord of love He gave us a beautiful gift so dear We should all be thankful and mindful of A precious gift from our Father above He made it so we might forever live We only need repent, others forgive.

Day Eighteen

Day Eighteen-Poem in my Pocket Day I decided for today, to write a poem in one of the styles we already did, Richtameter. Poems Words of our souls Help us see others lives Give us a glimpse of eternal Share our Father’s love for each of these souls Teach us of His truths and wonders Make us look at the world And see ourselves Poems

Day Seventeen

Day Seventeen-Haiku Potted plants of all kinds Sit on windowsill in sun Drinking in the warmth

Day Sixteen

Day Seventeen-Poiku Crane Wife 3 All under the boughs Hang my head, hang my head low Feathers fell from skin Another Poiku Goose Snow Cone Face of Goose Snow Cone Truce, stone, origami crow The devil I know

Day Sixteen

Day Sixteen-Windspark Poem I dreamed I was a soft bunny In the meadow Hopping through the clover Quietly I dreamed I was a three year old I'm my mother's arms Quietly sleeping Contentedly

Day Fifteen

Day Fifteen-Tyburn poem The Gym Early Sweaty Busy Noisy We all work out early, sweaty ways So we can have busy, noisy days! (Now THAT was a workout!)

Day Fourteen

Day Fourteen-Couplets Here's a silly one: I'm glad they invented tissue For what our bodies issue. Not so silly: I'm glad that we have dogs They bring us closer to God Spiritual: Our Heavenly Father gives us so much Our talents can other lives touch We can use our talents for good Just as our Savior would Our lives are so enriched To our Lord we must be stitched.

Day Thirteen

Day Thirteen-Triplet There’s something about the weather That’s making me wonder if whether The weather is crazy and *blether (*talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense)

Day Twelve

Day Twelve-Nonet Poem Now Our ancestors who came before us Built up our country we live in They’ve worked hard to bless our lives Are we honoring them Ev’ry day we live Making life Worthy Now

Day Eleven

Day Eleven-Five Line Poem The Lord knows who you are Of that I am sure He shares His love in so many ways He makes the sky so blue I love my Father in Heaven.

Day Ten

Day Ten-What if....I might Poem What if I could control the weather I might make it sunny every day What if all worries were light as a feather I could carry them wherever I may What if I could make all lives better I would get on my knees and pray Is it really possible to have all of our dreams today?

Day Nine

Day Nine-Rictameter Poem Grandkids Love of my life Give lots of love and hugs Are so fun to have around me Their joy makes my life content and happy As a grandparent I can watch Them grow into adults They give meaning Grandkids

Day Eight

Day Eight-Octopoem My Twin and I When we were little, I loved pink and she loved purple The season we loved best was winter, because of Christmas and our Birthday We grew up in Long Beach and loved it there The sun was always shining One year, our Easter dresses were pink and blue We slept in twin beds in the same room I remember watching Romper Room and Engineer Bill One year, we baked a birthday cake for our brother that was lopsided and green

Day Seven

Day Seven-Senses Poem Spring I see our cat in the window I smell flowers in the air I hear birds chirping outside I feel the sun's warmth on my skin I taste fresh strawberries on my tongue I love Spring Or Spring Cat in the window Flowers in the air Birds chirping outside Sun's warmth on my skin Fresh strawberries on my tongue I love Spring! Then the other version It looks like a beautiful Spring day It smells like fresh mown grass It sounds like nature's waking up It feels like a warm cozy blanket It tastes like strawberries in season.

Day six

Day Six-Shadorama poem Close to God As we live our lives Our one goal, Heart's yearning Is to truly be worthy Of our Saviour's love.

Day Five

Day Five-Cinquain Poetry Dogs Fur Babies Devotion and Loyalty Glad we have them Love

Day Four

Day Four-Tanka Poem Vehicle Problems Why are they never ending? When do you give up? This car of mine is a pain! Why did I ever buy it?

Day Two

Day two-Penses Food Poem ‘Nanas Not for my mouth Hated them my whole life long Until I made “Bakini” bread Grandson changed my thinking

Day Three-Grammar Poem

Day Three-Grammar Poem Music Thought-provoking and ethereal Streaming through my mind softly Like a warm summer breeze If only there weren’t so much noise around me

Day one

Day One- 5 Ws Poem Martha, a valiant warrior, a Daughter of God A good friend, neighbor, and Breast Cancer Survivor. She has now returned to her Heavenly Home, This last Saturday while at her earthly home, After Cancer came back with a vengence.