LIGHT verse dept.
[Cocoa, Florida]
After work
by JG Annino
How curious it is
villages called
Coffee, Florida
or Tea or Juice
are absent from
the map
Out the newsroom door
of my summer job
into warm late night
search around downtown
only other visitor a dusty
armadillo
how can this
hot state have
a hot town
named Cocoa
and more than that
shouldn’t a person
find the best
cup of it, right
here
©JanGodownAnninoall rights reserved
GRAB a cuppa whatever – mine is water, no ice.
This month we mosey into Poetry Friday’s gift to 2019 National Poetry Month.
It’s the Progressive Poem! A line a day is added by your 2019 Poetry Friday
line leaders, to make a month-long-in-the-making, 29-line, poem.
I will grab a line
(out of a Cocoa box perhaps)
on April 25th – to post here that day. I haven’t looked at the other written lines yet,
deciding to only see them all of an early morn, on my designated Thurs & then
spin something fresh during that day, posting sooner rather than later. Shivers!
REQUEST Dept.
Editors, eagle-eyed readers, published Poetry Friday poem makers, if you
liked “After Work” above, please know that beta readers are collecting
for an upcoming poem project. Please send an email note to me with your availability
summer/fall, or send a fb message. I am dividing the poems to be read into
clutches of approx. 5, 7, 11, 1,211, etc. For your volunteer reading, I can offer
enthusiastic appreciations,
with a package of dry ingredients
to make my special
best cuppa hot Cocoa recipe.
LINE LEADERS
Line Leaders of the 2019 April National Poetry Month Progressive Poem who are Pampered & Organized & Enthused & Memorialized by Poet Extraordinaire & friend of octopuses, IRENE LATHAM;
1 Matt @Radio,Rhythm and Rhyme
2 Kat @KathrynApel
3 Kimberly @KimberlyHutmacherWrites
4 Jone @DeoWriter
5 Linda @TeacherDance
6 Tara @Going to Walden
7 Ruth @thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown
8 Mary Lee @AYear of Reading
9 Rebecca @RebeccaHerzog
10 Janet F. @LiveYour Poem
11 Dani @Doingthe Work that Matters
12 Margaret @Reflections on the Teche
13 Doraine @Dori Reads
14 Christie @Wondering and Wandering
15 Robyn @Life on the Deckle Edge
16 Carol @Beyond LiteracyLink
17 Amy @The Poem Farm
18 Linda @A Word Edgewise
19 Heidi @my juicy little universe
20 Buffy @Buffy’s Blog
21 Michelle @Michelle Kogan
22 Catherine @Reading to the Core
23 Penny @a penny and her jots
24 Tabatha @The Opposite of Indifference
25 Jan @Bookseestudio
26 Linda @Write Time
27 Sheila @Sheila Renfro
28 Liz @Elizabeth Steinglass
29 Irene @Live Your Poem
April 2019 “Kickin’ It” Cleveland, Ohio
Bookseedstudio 
4 responses to “2019 April National Poetry Month”
I enjoyed your light verse, Jan. Cocoa, FL should certainly have a good cup of hot cocoa. Although it may be too hot to drink hot drinks!
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Thank you with a big mug of iced cocoa on top, dear Joanne!
(Iced coffee…. iced cocoa? Maybe I can make iced coca a thing this summer…)
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I’m anxiously waiting my turn for the progressive poem too. I’ve got my radio tuned into classic rock so that I can be ready! I wish it was over. I’m nervous.
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I know it is just the ticket & I’m eager to see your line too, dear Linda.
Not peeking until my designated day, next week on Thurs. April 25.
Shiver!, indeed.
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