DMC: "Travel Advisory" by Cynthia Cotten

TRAVEL ADVISORY

Never ask a dinosaur

to help you with your packing.

He lacks such necessary skills

as rolling, folding, stacking.

Your pants will be all wrinkled.

Your shirts will be a mess.

So if a dino offers help

don’t ever answer “yes”!

© 2018 Cynthia Cotten.  All rights reserved.

Click HERE to read this month's interview with Deborah Bruss and Matt Forrest Esenwine. They've challenged us to write a poem about something you would not expect a dinosaur (or another kind of animal) to do.

Leave your poem on our April 2018 padlet. While some contributions will be featured as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration this Friday, April 27th, and one lucky participant will win a personalized copy of their fun new rhyming picture book from POW! Kids:

DMC: "Epitaph for a Skunk" by Cynthia Cotten

EPITAPH FOR A SKUNK

You crossed the road, and now you're gone,
no more to waddle 'cross my lawn.
O, little one with noxious stink—
you won't be coming back, I think.

© 2018 Cynthia Cotten. All rights reserved.


Click HERE to read this month's interview with J. Patrick Lewis and Jane Yolen. They have challenged us to write an epitaph poem—a funny or clever verse that might appear on your chosen subject's tombstone.

Post your poem on our February 2018 padlet. While some contributions will be featured as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration on Friday, February 23rd, and one lucky participant will win a copy of their morbidly humorous collection from Charlesbridge: