April is moving along and it already Day 7. So I am posting the poems I wrote for these. You can also read these on Facebook.
Intro

Day 7
Prompt: Write a poem about luck or not having it

Am I Lucky?
Growing up I heard all these songs
Saying you didn’t need much to be happy
Luck was getting what you needed
Finding a good home and a good partner
Bringing children into the world who will enrich it
Making enough money to live comfortably
I didn’t expect to win anything
Or find the gold at the end of the rainbow
Though many times I was tempted to try my luck
I didn’t win the jackpot
And at the gambling tables I lost all my money
Yet there were times when I did win
Maybe a few scratch off lottery tickets
And maybe a couple of contests
Where my poems won a prize
Or maybe the time when my screenplay won first prize
But I didn’t consider these luck
Just recently I won a prize in an international contest
Was that luck or skill?
I consider myself lucky to have found a wonderful man
Whose love sustained me for almost forty-nine years
And who gave me two beautiful and loving children
But his luck gave out too soon
And he didn’t survive the last onslaught to his body
And maybe being able to put my thoughts into words
Is lucky so everyone can see how I feel
And sometimes people can imagine feeling the same way
I am lucky to know so many people who appreciate this.
Copyright 2024 by Barbara Ehrentreu

Day 6
Prompt: Write a minimum poem
Description of a SAINO
I am not a minimimalist poet
My thoughts usually come out in droves
And I have to tame them to fit on the page
So I was intrigued by this form
Having written haiku I have squeezed my thoughts
Into 5-7-5
But here I could use more syllables
I tried it and fell in love with this form
Where you can write three lines or
Stanzas of three lines to create a poem cluster
How much emotion I could fit into these three lines
Of 7-8-9
And I thanked the inventor for creating this ingenious form
Where you can write about anything or anyone
In such a short way
SAINO changed my life
And my writing
For now it is somehow more succinct
After being condensed into such a small space
Copyright 2024 by Barbara Ehrentreu

Day 6
SAINO # 83, 84, 85,86
7-8-9
Free verse
The SAINO is a new form
It comes from Nepal from a man
Named Khemlal Pokhrel the inventor.
He wanted to give poets
A way to express their feelings
In a short and expressive manner.
Using any rhyme they could
Or free verse if one wanted to
Write it without any rhyme at all.
Try it if you want to see
How easy it is to write it
Use seven – eight-nine syllables now.
Copyright 2024 by Barbara Ehrentreu

Until the next time. Keep writing and please show me some of your poems. Comment on here or put them on Facebook.