Hello All. Sorry to have been away so long. It has been a busy, trying year. But now it’s April, and again, time for NaPoWriMo! I will try to write a poem everyday of April. It’s going to be tricky, but I’m giving it a stab.
The prompt today was to write about book covers. I channeled some book covers of my youth. Special thanks to Robert Louis Stevenson, AA Milne and Ogden Nash.
Poetry Under the Covers
The big blue book
So colorful and bright
Never noticed faded pages
As it’s read to me at night
On the cover kids from long ago
Run up a far away hill
I know inside there’s a friendly cow
And birdie with a yellow bill
And the words will take me swinging
Up in the air so blue
Oh I still think it’s the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do
Some nights the small blue book
Is the one sitting on the chair
With its simple ink line drawing
Of a little boy and a bear
But here the words jump and play
And tickle with rhymes like pleazles
When Christopher Robin is in his bed
Having the wheezles and sneezles
And some poems offer comforting thoughts
So I know I’m clever as clever,
And Pooh will be with me, says Pooh, says he,
He’s a friend for ever and ever.
The dark red book, with no pictures
Seemed like a real downfall
But just wait and you will learn
It’s the silliest book of all
No word was safe, every rhyme was fun
The humor was easily skewed
I learned celery raw, develops the jaw,
But celery stewed is more quietly chewed
These books were my favorites nightly,
My parents did not complain.
The lifetime poetry journey began
In my pleasant land of counterpane.
Lovely. :) Lucky us who had such early and forever friends.