Happy National Poetry Month!
At Ethical ELA, Bryan Ripley Crandall kicks off VerseLove by inviting teacher-poets to compose acrostics: “Think of your person, place, or phrase. Lay the letters onto the page as if fallen leaves. Game-on. Write as if you are ‘gifting’ to another, and use each letter to craft an original poem.”
I love acrostics and have long believed this ancient form is underused.
As I pondered a topic, I went to the refrigerator door to start breakfast, and there it was:
The Drawing My Granddaughter Made During a “Sleepover”
Six years old, blissfully
Unaware that it’s the emblem of a
Nation being invaded, she announces:
Franna, I am making this for you.
Love crayoned on the paper as
Our own special symbol.
When night falls, we put on our pink pajamas
Emblazoned with these light-seeking faces
Radiating joy of now, promise for tomorrow.
She texts me in the evenings sometimes to be sure I am wearing my sunflower pajamas
lit bits and pieces 
We need more SCOUTS in the world so we can have sunshine, hope, laughter, and peace!
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We so need more “Scouts” – let me tell you, this one lives up to her name!! ❤
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Remarkable acrostic! An apt way to start off this month.
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Many thanks – happy April!
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I do agree with the underuse of acrostic poems. Yours is beautiful! I think many people are having a new affinity for sunflowers.
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Thank you, Leigh Anne – I think you’re right about people have a new affinity for sunflowers lately. I wonder how many know they’re a symbol of nuclear disarmament and that they can cleanse soil of nuclear toxins??
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“Emblazoned with these light-seeking faces” – there’s a LOT to this line, Fran. And I’ve always thought of acrostic as…well, just kind of a poem that spells out a word. I love the description of the process as laying the letters out like fallen leaves. It brings to mind The Road Less Traveled, a path with no leaves yet trodden black. It’s giving me a new insight on the form!
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