Today is Day 16 of Rena Traxel’s A to Z Poetry Challenge. Our letter today is P for Prose. On her blog, HERE, she talks about prose poetry and writes an example. Even though I was challenged to write a prose poem…it’s really not my style. So I used the letter “P” to be a bit pigheaded and write a Penny-style poem! I wanted to add something to my poetry portfolio that would be pleasing to my persnickety, particular Penny-ness. I think that’s enough “P” references to get by with passing on prose. So without further postponement, here is my poem for Day 16.
Imagilicious Delicious
In my dream, I baked a cake so imagilicious
Every bite, every crumb—delightful and delicious!
Layers stacked so high. Oh my!
Luscious tower to the sky.
Layer one and layer two
Turned from purple into blue
Sugar sweetness spread between
Reaching up to cakey green.
Scrumptious icing, sticky fun
Touching bright, confection sun.
Up to orange and up to red
Sweet, treat vision in my head.
Every bite, every crumb—delightful and delicious
In my dream the cake I baked so imagilicious!
What a wonderful ode to cake! So imaginative, Penny — well done!
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This poem was so delightful and delicious! This may be one of my favorites so far! Doesn’t hurt that I want to take a big ol’ bite out of that rainbow cake!!! Imagilicious indeed! Well done Penny!!!
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Thanks, Natalie! I appreciate your kind words 🙂
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Penny’s Poems – Practically Perfect in Every Way!! 🙂
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Oh! Maybe I should change my last name to Poppins 🙂
My maiden name is Parker…P-P-P-Penny Parker!
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Fooled me. I loved your poem. You wrote it with such ease!
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Thanks, Patricia….the cake is making me crave dessert!
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What a fantabulous poem – and picture!! Great job, Penny!!
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I got the picture off Google and found an online photo editor and quickly used their blurring tool. I’m not a Photoshop savvy person…but this was simple…then used my snipping tool to cut away unwanted blurry edges…all in a matter of 5 min. without downloading any software. Oh the wonders of the Internet!
Here’s a link to the online photo editor in case any of you are ever needing a quick fix!
http://advanced.aviary.com/tools/image-editor
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Really, Penny? Did you have to post that picture? You really didn’t need the picture. Your words led to some serious salivating. Before the night, I’m making a Publix run. So much fun, this is!
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I know…doesn’t it look yummy!
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Love your word Imagilicious. Now I want some cake!!
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Prose poems aren’t my thing either. Do you think that your poem above would be different if you had written a prose poem? (do you think it would have the same effect?) I can just see a little kid looking up at this towering cake and licking her/his lips. This is a fun poem!
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It probably would’ve. I just couldn’t get it going. This may be my challenge of all challenges and I took the easy way out
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This is yummy, Penny!
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I wish I had baked it and it was waiting in my kitchen 🙂
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That’s perfect Penny! I’m unsure of prose poems so this is a great example.
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My poem isn’t a prose, Catherine…I wimped out! Thanks for reading it!
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