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April 15 of April Poem A Day!!

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Today is tax day, but I got an extension to pay our tax. Tonight was also the second night of Passover and for all my Jewish friends Happy Passover. A Passover Seder has a structure like a piece of writing. You start with the Kiddush, which is a blessing over the wine. You use a Haggadah to make sure you get the story right. The youngest asks the Four Questions, which are questions about the Seder and about why we eat certain foods. Then there is the story of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. God is the central character and it's all about the interpretation of his deeds. Finally the big climax when Moses leads his people out of Egypt by parting The Red Sea. The ending winds down with the Jews staying alive by eating manna in the desert.

Today's prompt is about Love!

April 15, 2014
Prompt: Write about Love

Love Fills My Heart

I thought you had squeezed
all the love from me
If you looked inside you
would find only a
shell of a heart
like the cheap hollow
chocolate hearts you see in
drugstores

Then I lay prostrate at your feet
as the last drops of love
found deep inside me
emerge and when I pour
this little bit on top of you
suddenly you will be strong
again and I will continue
to find more filling my heart
until it is no longer empty
Only then will my sadness
be replaced with the joy
of your smile
copyright 2014 by Barbara Ehrentreu

Whoops, I had to add one more poem to this post. The prompt was for a Love and an Anti Love poem. So here is my Anti Love poem:

Chocolate You Destroy Me
(Anti Love Poem)

Chocolate you destroy me
You force me to eat you
and I gorge on your sweetness
only to pay the price of despair
as I survey the results of my
stuffing your goodness into my
mouth and letting the delectable
smooth substance of you melt
But no I must not love you for
this is the destruction of my
body and though I do love
you I must say no and ignore
your charms
But just one more bite, please

Until the next time, I want to thank all the people who have tweeted about this blog. It's nice to know someone is reading your work. Usually I go by the comments where people will react to my blog, but I was surprised and very happy to see all the tweets.:) I've been in a kind of a daze since my husband has been in the hospital these past weeks, so I just found them yesterday. I am also posting my poems on Poetic Asides under lionmother.

Happy writing and I hope you are writing poetry too.:) It's all that has kept me sane.

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It's April 14 of April Poem A Day!!

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

It's Passover and somehow this is how I felt when I saw the prompt. We have to spend it without my husband, because he is still in the hospital. We are transferring him to the hospital where he can see all his doctors. Where he is now they just don't know him well enough to successfully treat him. As they said in the Cheers song: "Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name."

Here is my offering for today's prompt:

April 14, 2014
Prompt: Write a title starting with If I Were... and then write a poem about the title

If I Were Able to Fly

I’d soar with no thought of fear
for my wings would be unfurled
free and strong in the air
supporting me as I hovered
over the Earth.

I’d peer down at the beauty
on the ground and be on
the lookout for goodness
which would waft up
towards me in a delightful
aroma as I passed over the
houses of the good people

Unlike the other passover when
the goal was to smite all the
firstborn children of what He
considered evil ones
and therefore eradicate the
whole evil population in one night

My flying over would be a fun affair
with balloons going down to the
ones who thought about others
and had no cares for themselves
along with lots of chocolate, because
who doesn’t want that?

I’d swoop over cities and towns and
villages in my search dropping the
goodies and landing on the ground
to distribute them all to the deserving
few.

Until the next time, thank you to all who continue to read this blog and hope you are enjoying these all poetry all the time posts.:)

Also I have brought some of my characters to the weeklong celebration at We Love Tween/YA Books on Facebook. Come over and meet some of the authors and the characters in their books here. Also there might be some goodies too!!

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