The Versesmith

It's that time of year again!  What time?  The time bloggers around the world look forward to each year!  It's time for the Blogging From A to Z April Challenge .  Well, it's time for us to reveal our themes, the challenge starts, and ends, in April.   What is the Challenge?   The A to Z of whatever you want.  26 letters of the alphabet, 26 days of April (daily with Sundays off).  April 1st is A, the 2nd is B... so forth until Z on April 30th.  Anything goes.  Really.  Photographs.  Music.  Books.  Animals.  Postage stamps.  Recipes.  General musings.  Things you find in your house.  ANYTHING A to Z!  Click the link above to join in.  The A to Z team has chosen the theme for the challenge of Victorious Blogging, or "... hope, positivity, and living your best life blogging your best blog." My theme is A to Z Poetry .  A new poem for each day of the challenge.  Mayb...

Weekly Scribblings #66: All About April I had this first erasure waiting in the wings for some opportune time, and the prompt of April seemed to be the time.  But, it reads too depressing for this lovely spring time of year, so I erased another.  Both are from Edna St. Vincent Millay's Justice Denied in Massachusetts , which is posted at the bottom of the page.  Come to think of it, the original is pretty darn depressing itself, the title referring to the controversial arrests, trials and executions of two men, immigrants from Italy (two strikes against them at the time, as anti-Italian and anti-immigrant prejudice was quite prevalent).  The poem was published in the New York Times the day before their executions. So, first my depressing erasure, then a cheery April-is-Lovely-Spring-has-Arrived version!    A Last April    Abandon our gardens and go. The blossom grow sour. The cold earth we have cannot warm the sun. It shall die in...