National Poetry Month '26: Poetry Piques
On Poetry Piques Well, ready or not, here we go! Hello, National Poetry Month. Hello, sleeping blog. Hello, commitment. In celebration of Poetry Month, I plan to publish a poem here at least 26 days ( because it's 20 26 and I might need some wiggle room) . Last year, I let myself write a poem a day in my notebook. Well, that didn't go exactly as I had planned. It seems I quite easily let myself off the hook several days in April of 2025. This year, I hope to remedy that a bit. This year's collection will be called "Poetry Piques" because I'm going to write about whatever has caught my attention for the day. I don't want to put myself in a box; I haven't been writing with the regularity I would like. It seemed that instead of mapping the path before I began, it might be better to just go where the path leads. Time will tell. One afternoon, while trying to decide my plan for the month, I stumbled upon the word "pique." As I've played with...