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Sunday

2017 A-Z Challenge theme reveal: Storybook illustrations undone from A to Z




Nickers and Ink joins the April A to Z Challenge and National Poetry Writing Month for another year. That means I aim to write and publish 26 poems (titled from A to Z), with new ones appearing daily (except Sundays) throughout the month. Thousands of bloggers and poets participate in these annual events.

Here’s my Nickers and Ink Poetry and Humor theme reveal for this year's April challenges.

Adapted by this user from vintage artwork.
  
Storybook illustrations undone
(A rhymed request on April's fest)

My pen I will prime,
As April appears.
Old drawings I’ll rhyme,
So lend me your ears.

I’ve chosen some sights
From sketches of old.
In blitzes and bytes,
I’ll swap what they’ve told.

The alphabet full,
From A down to Z,
My musings will cull,
For truth’s repartee.

Right or wrong,
Come along.
c2017 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Double back daily, so you won’t miss any of these poetic posts from A to Z. Comment, if you will, with a link to your own latest blog post.
Happy A to Z and NaPoWriMo.



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Saturday

A-Z sketches in verse: Junk Jumbler





On Sweeping and Reaping

With silent smirk and menaced mug,
She whisks the wrongs under the rug.
The carpet buckles from the load
Of dark details and debts still owed.
And those who tread upon that spot
May stumble, tumble, all for naught –
Though hidden ills, distortions deep
May disappear with one clean sweep.
c2015 by Linda Ann Nickerson


Image/s:
Vintage/public domain artwork

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Wednesday

A-Z sketches in verse: April’s Applause



Alas, egad, and can it be?
It’s time to blog from A to Z.
Ahem, huzzah. Hold the applause
Until the zesty final clause.

Miss April’s shoes are set to dance.
Her pretty pen, it begs to prance.
So stick around. We’ll cut a rug,
As beckoned by the blogging bug.
c2015 by Linda Ann Nickerson


Image/s:
Adapted from Dancing the Charleston, by Georges Goursat,
Early 20th Century – public domain

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