It’s Tuesday and I’m joining the writing community over at Two Writing Teachers for their weekly slice of life sharing. Because it’s National Poetry Month, I’m using poetry to share my slice of life story.
This past weekend I enjoyed a fun yet exhausting weekend babysitting two of my four grandchildren. We spent most of the weekend outside in 70 degree weather, quite unusual for New England in early April. I chose to write a skinny poem to capture all the fun. A skinny poem is eleven lines long with the first and last line using the same words but can be rearranged. The second, sixth, and tenth line repeats.
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Love this idea! Going to try some skinny poems! A symmetry of boys – enjoy them!
love that – symmetry of boys!
Thank you.
I love this form and the idea of four grandchildren swimming!
Loved the poem. Sounds like a great weekend 🙂
Love this form, the picture, and the joy of it all. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Clare. Joy for sure!
This is a fun type of poem. I loved reading your funfilled weekend.
Thank you! It was more than fun
This is such a great poem and so aptly expresses time spent with grandchildren, wonderful yet exhausting and all the love entailed. Thanks for showing the skinny poem format, I love it.
Oh yes the joy and exhaustion too! Wouldn’t trade it in for anything
Thank you for introducing a new form of poetry. Your Poem resonated joy.
Thank you Dawn! It’s a fun form to play with
Thanks for teaching me a new poem form and for sharing your writing process. Of course LOVE became your repeated word! What a lovely busy weekend you had! Thanks for sharing.
Using this format kept me from gushing on and on. I used it last year and must keep it in my Arsenal to use again.