Poetry Challenge #244-It's All Relatives
Call your brother! Text your cousin! Email Auntie Poopsie in Pookipsie… or pile into The Rattletrap Car and pay them a visit. Why? It’s National Visit Your Relatives Day!
National Visit Your Relatives Day (May 18th) encourages family members to stay connected. Our hectic lives make it easy to get so caught up in the busyness of today’s fast-paced lifestyle. It’s easy to fall out of contact with relatives. The observance reminds us to stop for a moment, take some much-needed time and visit those relatives we care about and have not seen or spoken to for a while.
“Gas up the old Ford, get out the road map
They got a head start about half a day ”
Poetry Challenge #244
It’s All Relatives
Write a poem about a gathering with relatives. It might be your actually relative—including crazy Aunt Pookie—or an imaginary gathering. Where would it be? What would y’all do? Say? Eat?
Add voice to the poem by writing it in the vernacular of the location. For example, if the gather is set on the Space Lab, sprinkle in space words or Martian speak.
For inspiration here are a few fabulous “Relative Gathering” books and Bonnie Raitt’s sassy tune: Papa Come Quick!
Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 2000+ days 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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