April is National Poetry Month, among many other things as well. So, like a few Aprils of before, I am once again participating (driving myself crazy!) in a couple (more than) month-long challenges. In other words, I am booked for better or verse for the month!

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Poetic Sundays: Booked for Better or Verse Indeed, Surreally

Simply following the NaPoWriMo prompts this month for Poetic Sundays.

Day two’s NaPoWriMo prompt! Inspired by the Romanian-born poet Paul Celan (who once wrote a series of surrealist questions and answers like these: What is forgetting? / An unripe apple stabbed by a spear. And What is a tear? / A scale awaiting a weight.

Pick 5 – 10 words from the list over at NaPoWriMo. Next, write out a question for each word that you’ve selected (e.g., what is seaweed?) Now for each question, write a one-line answer. Try to make the answer an image, and don’t worry about strict logic. These are surrealist answers, after all! After you’ve written out your series of questions and answers, place all the answers, without the questions, on a new page. See if you can make a poem of just the answers. You may find that what you have is very beautifully mysterious, and somehow has its own logic.

My Surrealistic Poetic Attempt

The Words/Questions I Picked

What is fog?
What is a miracle?
What is a cowbird?
What is longing?
What is a song?
What is thunder?

A Poem? A Whatever?

Sir Real Is My Name
A picture book I thought it was
a child’s book of faery tales…
then something gave me pause…
It was more, kind of teacups with whales…
This is what I read within..
See it yourself, tell me your think…

A guy named Karl who weaves blankets for cities by the bay.
Rips in reality blankets letting amazements pass our way.
A nursery rhyme sprouting wings and flying over the moon.
And a feeling meets a dream on a faraway planet the opposite of soon.
A silent murmuration of fluttering rainbows and stars.
Drumbeats over sharp bright rivers by creatures on Mars.
~ Vidya Tiru @ LadyInReadWrites

Recently

On My Blog & at Home

My recent posts since and including my last Sunday Scribblings:

• Sunday Scribblings #140: Create Wonders With Quirky Words and More
• Scribbling Our Way to Creativity
• Ten Poets You Must Read if You Love Shel Silverstein
• 13 Ways to Celebrate the Pencil: Pointed and Perfect
• Springing into April With Colorful Fun Facts
• Admiring Avvaiyar(s): For All Each One Alone Was

Upcoming

On My Blog & Homefront

These challenges are going to keep me busy

This Week’s Celebrations

Literary Celebrations (close-to-it also!)

• Literary birthdays this week of April include: Washington Irving on the 3rd of April; Margaret Oliphant, Makhanlal Chaturvedi, and Maya Angelou on the 4th; Anthony Horowitz, Anu Garg, Arthur Hailey, and Robert Bloch on the 5th; the 6th celebrates Leigh Bardugo; Gabriela Mistral and William Wordsworth on the 7th; Barbara Kingsolver and Sara Shepard on the 8th; Charles Baudelaire on the 9th
• National School Librarian Day is on the 4th as is National Hug a Newsperson Day!
• It is National Library Day on the 6th
• Read a Road Map Day on the 5th
• Take Your Poet to School Week is celebrated on the Monday of the first full week of April. Created by Tweetspeak Poetry, it coincides with National Poetry Month — the perfect way to kick things off. During the week-long holiday, you can take a cut out of your favorite poet to school. Take a printout of your favorite poet, stick it onto a popsicle stick, and voila — your pocket poet is ready to join you at school.
• Which means that National Library Workers Day is on the Tuesday of this week and National Bookmobile Day is on the Wednesday of this week
• April is English Language Month and National Poetry Month

Foodie Celebrations

• The 3rd of April starts off the week sweetly, for it is Chocolate Mousse Day and also kicks of National Bake Week!
• It is National Vitamin C Day on the 4th, and also International Carrot Day.
• While April 5th happens to be National Caramel Day, National Raisin and Spice Bar Day, and National Deep Dish Pizza Day
• National Caramel Popcorn Day is on the 6th along with Fresh Tomato Day and National Acai Bowl Day. A fun food holidsy on the 6th that is rue to bring a smile on faces – of food – is National Food Faces dya
• The 7th of April is National Beer Day and National Coffee Cake Day, a
• National Empanada Day follows on the 8th
• It is National Chinese Almond Cookie Day on the 9th

Other Celebrations

• April 3rd celebrates National Inspiring Joy Day, National Film Score Day, National Find a Rainbow Day, and World Party Day among a few other observations..
• April 4th makes you walk just a little bit more than usual for it is National Walk Around Things Day. And watch out, it is International Day for Landmine Awareness (while I am not wanting to kid about landmines, it is a weird coincidence that walk around day is on the same day!)
• Get your feet moving some more on the 5th which observes National Walking Day (the first Wednesday in April)
• It is World Table Tennis Day on the 6th of April. Do you play this sport (also called ping pong in some places)?
• World Health Day is celebrated on the 7th along with National Girl Me Too Day and National No Housework Day
• While April 8th is International Romani Day and World Pageant Day. It is also National All Is Ours Day and National Zoo Lovers Day
• April 9th brings a few varied national days including National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day, National Name Yourself Day, National Unicorn Day, and National Winston Churchill Day

Multi-Day celebrations

• National Wildlife Week –  Changes Annually – April 5-9, 2023

Wrapping up my Sunday Scribblings

So dear reader, you have reached the end of this Sunday Scribblings! As always, I welcome your thoughts, comments, and suggestions about this post. And do let me know if you plan to celebrate any of these mentioned celebrations this coming week/month? 

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon. Also linking to NaPoWriMo and the Ultimate Blog Challenge