#2021NPM: Verse of Ages

Taking a moment to promote a great idea.  I belong to Oregon Writer's Colony.  For years, my friend Susan Balckaby has organized a wonderful poetry event, Verse of Ages.  When I was teaching and had my "Poetry Rocks" group, we performed at the event.
This last year has changed how we do things. Susan has put together a list of words to generate poems:

1. Floating
   
2. Pathway
   
3. Ignite
   
4. Blessing
   
5. Catch
   
6. Journey
   
7. Baffle
   
8. Sharp
   
9. Hazy
   
10. Answer
    
11. Capture
    
12. Grace
    
13. Fortune
    
14. Essence
    
15. Dancing
    
16. Linger
    
17. Heart
    
18. Margin
    
19. Nimble
    
20. Scatter
    
21. Pace
    
22. Venture
    
23. Wonder
    
24. Kettle
    
25. Oxygen
    
26. Risin
    
27. Satchel
    
28. Quest
    
29. Caution
    
30. Thrill
    
    There are no rules, just guidelines, including the following suggestions:
     ·     Use the word-of-the-day in a poem.
    ·      Free associate to see where the word takes you.
    ·       Build a web of connected ideas and images to spark an idea.
    ·       Change the word’s part of speech.
    ·         Use the word to build a compound word.
    ·        Brainstorm a list of rhyming words, slant rhymes, words that repeat the consonant sounds, words that repeat the vowel sounds.
    ·         Explore the word’s synonyms and antonyms.
    ·         Dig through a Thesaurus or mine the adjacent words in a dictionary.
    ·         Combine words on consecutive days and work two or more into a single poem.
    
    Short or long; formal, blank, or free verse; topical or fanciful or anything in between—your choice. Wind up your imagination and let it spin.
    
    
    Word is there may be an informal Zoom gathering on May 4.