National Poetry Month: 5/30: Sunday Redux April Fool’s Surprise

This National Poetry Month(NPM), I am writing and sharing original poems about food, family and feasts. Sundays will be a day to reshare a poem from the past. A list of links to previous poems is HERE.

​Since 2018, I have participated in the Two Sylvias Press poetry prompts for NPM. Two years ago I wrote a poem about an April Fool’s Joke involving the Graham Cracker Pie I featured on Wednesday this past week.

grandmother’s
recipe for pie
egg custard
graham crackers
once she swapped salt for sugar
“April Fool’s,” she yelled.

​©jone rush macculloch

BACK STORY: This actually happened. Not as a joke but as an accident. My husband and I were discussing something when I was making this pie for our daughter’s birthday. I scooped from what I thought was the sugar container and instead it was salt.
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We didn’t know until we tasted a very salty meringue in the pie. Eew!

​2020 Progressive Poem

Sunday seems like a good day to peek in on how the 2020 Progressive Poem is unfolding.

Buffy Silverman has today’s lines.

2020Progressive Poem

1. Donna Smith at Mainely Write
2. Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
3. Jone MacCulloch, deowriter
4. Liz Steinglass 
5. Buffy Silverman
6. Kay McGriff at https://kaymcgriff.edublogs.org/
7. Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core 
8. Tara Smith at Going to Walden
9. Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
10. Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm, and Rhyme
11. Janet Fagel, hosted at Reflections on the Teche
12. Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
13. Kat Apel at Kat Whiskers
14. Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
15. Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
16. Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
17. Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
18. Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading
19. Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
20. Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities 
21. Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
22. Julieanne Harmatz at To Read, To Write, To Be
23. Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
24. Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering
25. Amy at The Poem Farm
26. Dani Burtsfield at Doing the Work That Matters
27. Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
28. Jessica Big at TBD      
29. Fran Haley at lit bits and pieces
30. Michelle Kogan​

Irene Latham who began this poem project back in 2012, has handed it over to Margaret Simon to organize. I am so grateful to both Irene and Margaret for this wonderful April collaboration to kick of National Poetry Month.

Each day in April a different poet will add a line to this poem begun here today. No one knows where it will go or how it will get there, but it always gets there beautifully!