Welcome, Poetry Friday friends.
For National Poetry Month this year, I am writing poems generated in some playful manner. I am using metaphor dice, haikubes, Paint Chip Poetry, Mad Libs, words cut from newspapers and magazines, magnetic poetry, an online poem generator, roll-a-poem, and more.
You can read the poems I've written so far at the links below.
April 2 - MadLib a Poem - Stamp Collectors Dream
April 3 - Roll-a-Poem - The Brewing Storm
April 4 - Metaphor Dice - Time is an Impossible Promise
April 5 - Haikubes - A dream about my childhood
April 6 - The Poetry Kit - On Being an Octopus
April 7 - Poetry Machine - After Dad Died
April 5 - Haikubes - A dream about my childhood
April 6 - The Poetry Kit - On Being an Octopus
April 7 - Poetry Machine - After Dad Died
April 8 - Magnetic Poetry Kit - Untitled
April 9 - Poem Dice - The Fairy Dance
Today's poem was generated using an online blackout poem generator. Each day, the text selection changes. The text today Jubilee Hall : or, There's no place like home by Mrs. Greene.
Here's my poem.
the hill commanded a view
of sea and mountain
light and warmth
opened down to
the very ground
the scent from flowers
was splendid
the day
unlimited
Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2026. All rights reserved.
I hope you come back tomorrow to read the new poem I have to share. To see what others are offering up this month, check out Jama Rattigan's 2026 National Poetry Month Kidlitosphere Events Roundup.
Please take some time to check out all the wonderful poetic things being shared and collected today by Jone Rush MacCulloch. Happy poetry Friday!
Nice job!! love "the day unlimited" :).
ReplyDeleteTricia, I am making note of all your poem starters and prompts. Thank you for sharing and for this lovely example!
ReplyDeleteI love this project of yours. Great ending.
ReplyDeleteThere is something so darn magical about blackout poetry...the winnowing and paring...just lovely, and the line breaks too! xx
ReplyDeleteSo interested in this - I'm mostly interested to see if I can pick out words from a plethora of them already strung together to make something new - I'm not sure I can make it work. But, going to give it a go! Thanks! You did great, BTW!
ReplyDeleteHooray for play! Isn't that blackout poem a stunner! Wow..."opened down to the ground" is such a perfect arrangement of words for a page. Love it!
ReplyDeleteI find blackouts just SO hard, and you always make them look easy. Brava, Tricia!
ReplyDeleteTricia, I'm enjoying looking at all your links. You are a master of finding interesting poetry resources. Thanks for sharing. Your black out poem is beautiful "the day unlimited" Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a fun project! I've shared several of your techniques with my 8th graders. Their mad-libs poems were predictably silly, but many of the paint chip haiku they wrote on Friday were beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteTriciaaaaaa! Thank you for your comment on my daily poem from the 7th, and thank you for pointing me towards the blackout site--what a fantastic coincidence that April 11th's NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a blackout poem, and when I followed your link the text offered is STRAIGHT UP about trees! Your blackout is lovely, light in touch, I love the way it drifts down from "commanded" to a very much gentler, more open-minded "unlimited".
ReplyDelete"the scent from flowers
ReplyDeletewas splendid
the day
unlimited"
This just makes my spirit soar, Tricia. ❤️
UM, WOW. Are you kidding???? This is so, so good -- I'd never guess it was blackout if I didn't know. That hill, commanding the view. Sigh.
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