A is for ANJL STR

Tah-dah!  Here we go!!

It is the start of the Great A to Z Challenge!!  Want to know more?  Want to read other bloggers' posts?  Check out the list of participants and links here. or click on the image above.

As for me, I am doing poems from A to Z this month - inspired by Maine vanity license plate sightings over the past year...since the last A to Z Challenge.  This is my third year, doing this.  I may have to move on to other things someday, but so far the vanity plates are in good supply!

Here are two new plates that sprouted up this year:

I am going to use"ANJL STR" as my poetry prompt.

I discovered that there is a song and book with the title Angel Star.  Watch and listen here:



I wrote this poem before I'd decided to go with alphabetical poetry forms.  So later I rewrote the poem at the end of this.

Angel Star

You were sent to us

in the dark of night

When all the world had

lost its bright

Abruptly changing

our point of view

Your eyes a-twinkle

 pierced us through

You beheld our souls

as we held you fast

and thanked the Lord

You were here at last.

by Donna JT Smith

Here is the poem rewritten, reformatted, revised to be in the "alouette" format:

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/alouette.html

The Alouette:
consists of two or more stanzas of 6 lines each, with the following set rules:
Meter: 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 7
Rhyme Scheme: a, a, b, c, c, b

Angel Star

Sent to us one night


Dark became delight


Abundant, ever-glowing;



Your eyes twinkled blue


Mine pooled with love's dew -


Unbounded, overflowing.

Held in trembling hands


Wanting to still sands


Please, tumbling time be slowing.

Though the world twirls on


And time spun is gone


Love's multiplied and growing.

by Donna JT Smith

Enjoy more of A today...And now I can listen to the video along with you.  I was afraid it would affect my poem too much, so I just plunked it in here and didn't watch or listen!
and Happy Easter!!