Wednesday, April 23, 2025

NPM 2025 - Poem 23

For National Poetry Month this year, I am writing poems in uncommon, unusual, or inventive poetic forms. The only rule I have set for myself is that I choose forms I am unfamiliar with. Here are some of the resources I am referencing. 

Today, I'm sharing an anagram poem.
An anagram is a word spelled out by rearranging the letters of another word; for example, “To listen is to be silent," where listen and silent are anagrams. An anagram poem contains anagrams. In my poem, I have highlighted the anagrams in red.

Schoolhouse Anagram

twelve plus one = eleven plus two
said the schoolmaster in the classroom
pupils listen and are silent
math and poetry
low on their list of favorites
it’s science they love
they see everything
the flutter-by of a butterfly
the winding path of an ant
they want to be astronomers and moon starers
in their dreams they are rocket boys
flying through the October sky

Poem ©Tricia Stohr-Hunt, 2025. All rights reserved.
Photo - Rothstein, A., photographer. (1942) Untitled photo, possibly related to: Dunklin County, Missouri. Children in a consolidated rural school. Missouri Dunklin County United States, 1942. July. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017835167/.

I hope you come back tomorrow to see what new poetic form I've chosen. You can also read the other poems I've written this month.

To see what others are writing this month, check out  Jama Rattigan's 2025 National Poetry Month Kidlitosphere Events Roundup.           

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