Each day (except Sundays) in April, I'm writing poems with some obscure words starting with the letter of the day, and then doing a small watercolor to go with it. Today's Letter is Z in this Blogging A to Z Challenge. We have arrived at z end... and none to soon. I need a serious break...before I do!
* I am going to try to put up a watercolor. Spent the day/evening in ER yesterday, and on pain meds today. Just didn't get to finishing this post yet...unless you see the watercolor, in which case I had a few moments of clarity and focus to finish this race! I'm not even hungry. And if the poem doesn't make sense, well, I was hurting.
Zero
A zero is a zaftig
It isn’t at all that zazzy
Its zenzic is still zero
Never snazzy, hardly jazzy
It’s zilch, amounts to nothing
Fills the center of a ziti
Nothing’s there it’s just a hole
Like a zephyr in Tahiti
Yeah, that setting would make up for it
We’d all agree with that
Even zero’s zenzizenzizenzic
Is a zaftig that’s still flat.
But zero added on the end
It becomes a super hero
Numbers can grow seriously
by simply adding zero.
Now back to that Tahiti beach...
Let's meet on a zizzy shore,
We'll enjoy the clearest breeze
and play a zither to the skies
doing zilch at zero speeds.
by Donna JT Smith ©2026
Thank you to The Phrontistery for providing lots and lots of lesser used words!
Zaftig - having a full; rounded figure
Zappy - lively; entertaining
Zazzy - flashy; stylish
Zenzic - square of a number
Zenzizenzizenzic - eighth power of a number
Zephyr - lightweight wool or worsted fabric; the west wind
Zither - musical instrument with strings laid over horizontal board
Ziti - pasta shaped like large macaroni
Zizz - sparkle; vim
Congrats on completing the challenge. I think we all need a bit of a break :)
ReplyDeleteI just finished the poem. I'd stopped and had it partly done and ready to publish automatically - which it did - unfinished. Have to do the watercolor. I couldn't finish it all, but on pain meds I may be able to now today. Stay tuned. It may simply be a 0 watercolor. Hmmm. Maybe NO watercolor is zero...we'll see!
DeleteHope you feel better!
ReplyDeleteThanks...still working on that!
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