National Poetry Month begins
on April 1 and lasts
until the end of the month all
over. I can't let April 1 come without somehow recognizing National Poetry Month on my blog.
In our staff meeting this morning,
Charmaine Robledo reminded us that we need to avoid prepositions at the end of headlines, subheds and sentences. She gave us some examples of commonly used prepositions:
Prepositions you know and love
Location
above
below
over
under
among
between
beside
in front of
behind
next to
with
in the middle of
on
in
at
Time
at
on
by
before
from
since
for
during
to
until
after
Action and Movement
at
by
from
into
on
onto
off
out of |
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Volunteering as a poetry co-facilitator at
Art from Asheslast spring helped me fall in love with prepositions in poetry.Thanks to Art from Ashes, a nonprofit that facilitates connection, expression and healing through creative art therapy, I thinkit'sa lot of fun to look at a list of them and use as many of them as possible in a poem.
Try, if you will, using several prepositions in a
haiku or
tanka or
sonnet or
one-sentence poem. Let the ins and ats and ons fall over, under and through your mind as you create. Then
post your poemso we can also enjoy it. Call me at 303-954-2362 if you would like some help.
Here's a poem of prepositional proportions, from me to you (first without the prepositions bolded and then with them bolded):
Among the dillywags behind the loavesome bakery,
he stood next to her and among all of them and
between the both of we and in the middle of all things
that fall in and around before and from and after,
he believed that below it all, he was beside himself
with under-rated specks of laughter.
Among the dillywags
behind the loavesome bakery,
he stood
next to her and
among all
of them and
between the both
of we and
in the middle of all things
that fall
in and
around before and
from and
after,
he believed that
below it all, he was
beside himself
with under-rated specks
of laughter.*
*poetic license taken in the case of "under-rated"