Poetry Challenge #193-Happy Paper Airplane Day!

When was the last time you flew? Probably since the first soaring bird-spotting, people have been trying to fly, by fashioning wax-coated wings and turning themselves into birds and building ginormous $23 million dollar quackers like the “Spruce Goose” a troop carrier with a wingspan of 320 feet—longer than a football field—made of wood laminated with plastic and covered in fabric and designed to carry more than 700 soldiers, or in its purest form with a single sheet of paper with imagination folded in!

Poetry Challenge #193

Happy Paper Airplane Day!

Because someone needed a reason, today, May 26th, is National Paper Airplane Day. A day during which we are, each of us, honor-bound to create a paper airplane. Let’s do it!

For this prompt, shove devices aside and take up a sheet of paper. Imagine yourself folding that paper into an airplane—resist the urge to make one (for now). When its finished imagine yourself climbing aboard and soaring away!

What’s your destination? Who’s with you? What’s it feel like to fly?

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Ready! Set! Write!

When your finished, fold your poem into a paper airplane and send it into the world! Double-Dog Dare YOU!

If you need a paper airplane refresher, click on the image for step-by-steps to create the BAT X.3

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 4 years ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. Our hope is that creatives—children & adults—will use our prompts as springboards to word play time. If you join us in the Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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