A-B-Seized

A-B-Seized

(posted for NaPoWriMo – National Poetry Writing Month and the A to Z Challenge)

On Completing the A to Z Challenge

That does it! 

Today is May Day. Let’s celebrate? This day marks the completion of the month-long A to Z blogging challenge, as well as National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo).

What a feeling to have completed both tasks!

OK, I didn’t post 30 poems here, but 28 (see complete April list – below). However, I published additional poems during April, like those linked here, so the NaPoWriMo challenge is complete.

• Just a Gem: A Sonnet Revealing a Find Without Feeling
• Zap! It’s a Zorse!

 At the request of the A to Z Challenge organizers, here's my summation of the experience.

A-B-Seized

The gauntlet was tossed out to see,

A challenge from A clear to Z.

We posted each blog,

A month-full to log,

And welcomed our readers with glee.

Now April is spent. Hello, May!

The alphabet challenge gives way.

Yet posts will persist;

For we cannot resist

Partaking in wildest word play.

For letters are love in a swarm

To practice, pretend and perform.

And ink is a drug

That helps us unplug

Whenever life sends us a storm.

Thanks to all the faithful fellow bloggers and writing colleagues and readers for visiting and commenting throughout the A to Z Challenge. Welcome, new subscribers and blog followers.

Here are my A to Z Challenge posts for 2011:

·  A: April Fools and Tricky Tools

·  B: Great Reads and Good Deeds

·  C: Hues to Amuse

·  D: Revering Reveries

·  E: Go for Broke

·  F: Flash Frozen

·  G: Grainy Goodness

·  H: Higher Harmony

·  I: Idols and Icons

·  J: Job of Justice

·  K: Keep on Kidding

·  L: Launched Before Lunch

·  M: Maybe Mercy Mends a Mess

·  N: Naming the Nemesis

·  O: Owing and Rowing

·  P: Perils of Plagiarizing Pirates

·  Q: A Quick Quack … or a Sure Smack

·  R: The Rumormonger’s Report

·  S: Stuck on Self

·  T: A Tricky Tag for Training

·  U: Upper Room Unbooked

·  V: No Victim of Violence

·  W: Wee Words on Writing

·  X: Extolling Exhaustless Extravagance

·  Y: Yea or Nay

·  Z: A Zillion Zigzags

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