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In Three Letters: NPM24 Day 4

I wake up in the morning wondering what I will write as my poem of the day for April’s National Poetry Month. Today’s #verselove prompt was all about letters.

It didn’t take me long to decide that I would write about SLO–especially when I snapped this mural (and cow) on my rainy day downtown exploration. (Do you know that SLO has the tiniest art museum? “Snug” but soooo good!). Anyway, in addition to knowing I would write about these letters, I needed something more. I needed some kind of constraint to structure my thinking and my poem. I decided on an Etheree…a poem that begins with 1 syllable and builds to 10 (or you can go the other way from 10 to 1).

Here it is:

In Three Letters

SLO

Letters

Iconic

Small town wordplay

How SLO can you go?

Plastered on walls/billboards

Imagine the possible

Puns, playful allusions, bad jokes

Alphabetic marketing reminds

This is the best place in the world to be

Sunset Tree, a Hashtag Poem: NPM24 Day 1

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Inspired by Kim Johnson’s prompt for #verselove over at Ethical ELA, I wrote about a sunset over San Luis Obispo (SLO) (which was also inspired by the tree posing in the setting sun).

#Sunset Tree

#SLO-ing down

#Umbrellaed by the setting sun

#Night knocking

#Sunshine winking behind the tree

#Embraced by warm light

#Tracing lithe limbs

#Travel weary

#Reaching for rest, my dreaming eyes

#Echo back the day

#Enchanted by the sunset tree