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Poetry Challenge #183-Get Your Green On!

Along with corned beef & cabbage, Irish coffee(s), crazy green hats-socks-ties-googly glasses, and talking with fake brogues (that usually ends up sounding more Pirate, than Leprechaun), St. Paddy’s Day is all about green. So, in the spirit of the day, let’s play with green poetry.

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Poetry Challenge #183

Get Your Green On!

Think of as many shades of green as you can, and green things, and meanings of the word green. YourDictionary.com listed 48.

With one or many of these to mine, write a “Green” poem. The subject of your poem might be St. Paddy’s day, but it might not. It might rhyme or it might not. It might follow a form, it might not. For this poem, there is only one rule and one challenge:

Rule: DO NOT USE the word “green”.

Challenge: How many shades of green—color or meanings—you can use?

Set Your Timer for 7 Minutes

Start Writing!

Don’t Think About it, just do it!

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May your words swirl free and green as the water in a leprechaun’s bowl!

Just for fun, here are 42 St. Patrick’s Day Jokes for Kids

Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge 4 years ago today (March 17th)! We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. 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 #78-Little Bit of Bloomin' Luck

With a little bit of Bloomin’ Luck!” Alfred P. Doolittle sings in My Fair Lady. I know exactly how he feels! Who doesn’t wish for a little bit more luck—bloomin’ or otherwise. That’s what makes Saint Patrick’s Day, one of my favorite holidays. Four leaf clovers, horseshoes, pots-of-gold, lepraucauns, jigs, lucky charms and wearing green, it’s all about conjuring up luck and having fun while you’re at it. St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday, March 17th, let’s celebrate by writing some lucky poems to celebrate.

Poetry Challenge #78

Little Bit of Bloomin’ Luck

If you had a bit of “bloomin’ luck what would it be? What would you do with a lucky charm? Write a poem about it. Here’s a list of St. Patrick’s day related words. See how many you can use in your poem:

Bagpipe, banshee, blarney, blarney stone, bog, brogue, celebrate, Celtic, clover, coins, donnybrook, emerald green, Emerald Isle, fortune, four-leaf clover, gold, good luck, green, harp, Ireland, Irish, jig, legend, leprechaun, limerick, , luck of the Irish, lucky, magic, March, mischief, pot of gold, potato, rainbow, Saint Patrick, shamrock, shillelagh, snake, St. Paddy's Day, St. Patrick

Set the timer for 7 minutes.

Start writing!

Don’t think about it too much; just do it.

When you’re finished, read your poem aloud—maybe a leprechaun with hear—if you’re lucky!

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Happy St. Paddy’s Day!

*Cindy Faughnan and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge about 1050 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.

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