Poetry Stretch Results - Abecedarian Poems

The challenge this week was to write in the abecedarian form. Here are the results.

Jane Yolen left this poem in the comments.

Changes

A
Bunched
Caterpillar
Dozes
Exhausted,
Forming
Green
Hairpins
In
Jellied
Kingdoms.
Lying
Motionless,
Not
Overplaying
Pupa-ness,
Quite
Ready
(Sort of)
To
Unfold
Varicose
Wings with an
eXacting
Yellow
Zipper.

© 2009 Jane Yolen

Julie Larios from The Drift Record shares two double abecedarians.

Tiel Aisha Ansari from Knocking From Inside shares a poem entitled A Few Short Lines.

Dianne White shares Abecedarian: Insect Style.

sister AE at Having Writ shares a poem entitled Still Cloudy.

Laura Purdie Salas gets acrobatic with her poem Shooting Star.

Andi from a wrung sponge shares a poem entitled Blessed Are the Broken-Hearted.

Mary Lee from A Year of Reading gives us An Abecedarian Love Song to My Hometown.

Here is one of the poems I've been working on this week.

August comes with
blazing sun, no
cooling breezes for the
dog days where
evenings are still fiery with
flitting fireflies and star-
gazing.
Incandescent days and
jeweled nights
keep children
laughing,
moving
nonstop through
open fields
pools and puddles,
quick stepping,
rain dancing,
singing and shouting
to the world.
Until … the
very last day
when the calendar
eXclaims that the golden,
yellow days are done, and summer
zooms away.

It's not too late if you still want to play. Leave me a note about your poem and I'll add it to the list.