April 6, 1939: This Is Army Day

April 6, 1939 Listened to Foster May broadcast from airplane over Omaha for this is Army Day being twenty-two years since U.S. entered World War. Visit National Poetry Writing Month

April 4, 1943: Still It Rains

The NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) prompt for today is to write a lune (an American Haiku). The poem below uses Jack Collum’s lune variant, which is a simple three-line poem of three words, five words, and three words. The words and phrases are all taken directly from my great aunt Hattie’s Great Plains diaries …

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NaPoWriMo: 30 Days, 30 Poems

In case you haven’t heard, this is National Poetry Month. I’m arriving to the party a little late but am going to participate in National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo) this year by writing at least one poem a day in April. My first, below, was inspired by my morning Facebook feed (I’ll play catch up a bit later in the month).

If you want to join me or learn more, check out the links at the end of the post.

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