Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Click Bait. Yesterday's Prompt was Great and I Rifted on 'Click Here for the PD Tracker' to Write an Original Poem

As noted, I simply love #VerseLove sponsored by EthicalELA and love having a new prompt offered every morning. Yesterday, the task was to steal a line from another's post, and I simply took the 'click here' offered as professional development and rifted a short poem. I sort of like the idea of falling into a rabbit hole as one is reading a poem and the links are live and take you into a layer that is part of the poetic layer that unfolds. I have to say that the last two links get me in the heart, mind, body, and soul every time. So fun to play with language every morning before I kick off the day.

Click Bait
    ~brcrandall

Click here for the PD tracker
if you’d like PD credits.
(proof-reading is good -
changed it from ED edits,
        and avoided projectile dysfunctions
        early on a Monday morning).

Click here if you have a thing for daisies,
yellow umbrellas for April showers,
and Cat Stevens is on your mind.

Click here for a Madonna lip smacker
(if you enjoy hubris on your falafel,
lipstick on your waffle,
& a lil’ baffle for today’s awful).

Click here for documented Covid-head -
one year where we lived at home sometimes in fear,
& worked on ZOOM in our underwear

Click here for weathering heights,
on weather the whether be hot
or weather the whether be cold,
it’s weather or not you’re in the know…
as forecasts are always gold.

Click here if you are a dad, and got jokes,
but seem to be running out of material.

Click here for rhyme, rhythm and joy
hosted monthly by yours truly, Frog Boy,
because athletes deserve poetry, too.

Click here for a vanishing act,
    the fact for looking at stars,
        it must be nice to disappear…
            to float into a mist
                with a lady on your arm
                    looking for a kiss.

Click here to end this poem (with bliss).