Happy
Poetry Friday!
The
Poetry Postcard Project is nearly done. Look for the grand finale next Friday.
I’ve
been wrestling with the next Author Amok blog project. How will we celebrate
National Poetry Month, 2013?
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| You can still order your NPM poster at Poets.Org. |
First,
enjoy a wrestling poem. Then, I am sending you a National Poetry Month invitation (no
toothy reptiles involved).
The
super-saturated colors on this postcard inspired me. Not to wrestle with an
alligator, but to write some light verse.
Alligator Wrestling
Tourist
spots
would
have
cold-weather
dwellers
think
an
alligator’s mouth
pulled
wide is green
and
juicy pink.
A
row of teeth,
thin
and white,
to
separate thick skin
from
what’s inside.
It
looks so much
like
watermelon rind,
who
would not
lean
in to take
a
little bite?
Laura
Shovan
Postcard
Information:
Front:
Alligator Wrestling, Tropical Hobbyland,
Miami, Fla.
Back:
ALLIGATOR
WRESTLING K 9267
Henry
Nelson, world’s champion alligator wrestler, gives daily exhibitions of this
ancient Seminole sport, at Tropical Hobbyland Indian Village, N.W. 27th
Avenue at 15th Street, Miami. The pit at Tropical Hobbyland contains
fifty alligators, and a dozen crocodiles, yet Henry will go in the water with
them entirely unarmed.
APPROVED
AAA ATTRACTION
Novelti-Craft
Products Co., Olympia Bldg., Miami, Fla.
A
“COLOURPICTURE” PUCLICATION, BOSTON 15, MASS., U. S. A.
Now that we've gotten Mr. Toothy out of the way...
Announcing Author Amok’s Fourth Annual
National
Poetry Month Project:
WELCOME
TO THE TECHNOVERSE
Call
me a nerd, a geek, a SF buff. I won’t argue with you.
| Author Amok, is it just coincidence that a classic Star Trek episode is titled "Amok Time?" |
Author
Amok is boldly going where only the most high tech poets have gone before…to the
TechnoVerse and beyond.
I'm
looking for 20 intrepid explorers to guest blog in April.
Do you have a
favorite poetry app, writing support program, or website you use for poetic inspiration
or interesting vocab? What about a savvy poetry list-serv, or a poetry blog
that’s always up on the latest trends? Send me a message at mrspoems@gmail.com.
Uncle Amok wants YOU!
to seek out new sites and new rhymifications.
Speaking
of tech-savvy poetry, I hope you’ll follow me and many other Poetry Friday
regulars during the March Madness Poetry Tournament. Ed DeCaria knows how to
work the ‘net – his site Think Kid, Think! is both high-tech and user-friendly.
Poetry Friday is brought to you today by Julie Larios at the Drift Record. Hmm... Julie, your blog's name would make a great title for a Star Trek episode.
Be
seeing you… in the TechnoVerse.
