When was the last time you reached into a fridge and chugged chocolate milk? Or savored a chunk of chocolate. If, like me, it’s been too long (more than 24 hours) It’s time! Today, July 28th is National Milk Chocolate Day ! (If you missed it consider this your rain check.)

The first use of the term milk chocolate dates back to 1687 when a beverage made from milk and chocolate was introduced to the people of London. While the first chocolate bar was created in 1847, it was dark chocolate. The first milk chocolate bar appeared in 1875 in Switzerland which quickly became known for making the best chocolates. By 1900, chocolate was universal.

Poetry Challenge #202

Got Milk . . . Chocolate, that is!

***What is your favorite chocolate treat?* A specific candy bar? Chocolate cake? Hot fudge?***

Describe it in great detail. What does it look like? Taste like? Feel like? How does it make you feel?

Try using similes or metaphors-- is like _____.

Make your reader’s mouth water. Make them want your chocolate treat.

(If you really truly deeply…madly don’t like chocolate, poem a treat you do you like.)

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, just do it!

I’m off to the kitchen—store—to find…Chocolate!!!

Serious Chocoholics take the Chocolate Challenge: Cadbury vs. Hershey’s vs. Dove vs. Godiva. Then click to insider.com to see how your results match up.

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge more than 5 years ago. Now we take turns creating prompts to share with you. This is INCREDIBLE NUMBER 201! 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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Poetry Challenge #202-Got Milk... Chocolate?