Wild Rose Reader 48 Hour Poetry Writing Challenge

Well, Michele of Scholar’s Blog and I didn’t participate in MotherReader’s 48 Hour Book Challenge—but we did a lot of writing this past weekend. I made up my own personal Wild Rose Reader 48 Hour Poetry Writing Challenge. I didn’t count up the minutes and hours I spent composing animal mask poems. That would have been too difficult because I was writing poetry while also doing research for and writing up my Here is a Poem About…#2 post and reading an adult nonfiction book. We also had two family birthdays to celebrate this weekend.

I challenged myself to write and polish six poems. I wrote and polished six poems. I may still tweak some of the poems a bit if I think I can make them better—and I may also change some of the titles.


Wild Rose Reader 48 Hour Poetry Writing Challenge Stats

First Poem: I’m Cat = 2 stanzas, 14 lines, 5 pairs of rhyming words

Second Poem: Monarch Caterpillar = 3 stanzas, 11 lines, 4 pairs of rhyming words

Third Poem: Minnow Music = 1 stanza, 14 lines, 6 pairs of rhyming words

Fourth Poem: Crickets = 1 stanza, 8 lines, 4 pairs of rhyming words

Fifth Poem: Mole Answers an Interview Question = 1 stanza, 12 lines, 3 pairs of rhyming words

Sixth Poem: Worker Bee = 1 stanza, 8 lines, 2 pairs of rhyming words


Total Stats = 9 stanzas, 67 lines, 24 pairs of rhyming words