Thursday, May 16, 2019

Let's Have a Picnic Y'all!

Hello Toads!  Happy May to you all.  The weather is May-ish meaning, down South here, the nights are a little cool (63 F.) and the days are hot (88 F).  Blackberry vines are so full of blooms that they look like wild roses blooming and the honeysuckle vines are also heavy with their sweet fragrant blooms.



So this puts me in mind of a picnic.  In Japan, we just finished the season of cherry blossoms when everyday is hanami - blossom viewing - and all through the cities, parks, villages - everyone is out having hanami picnics with special food for the occasion. Here in the states, not only are people getting into viewing the cherry blossoms and touring botanical gardens, you see more people on park benches and the ground with informal food to eat out of hand - picnic! Plain or fancy foods, romantic for two, groups, or even a single person with a takeout salad and a book - it is the season for picnics.

 


In any form, I would like you all to write about a picnic - real, fantasised, romantic, family, by the lake or the ocean, in a park or the back yard - write me a poem about a picnic.  Give me your menu, the games played, if it rained, if it was a happy or sad occasion.  If you write it a haibun remember:  a haibun is true, something that really happened to you and end it with a seasonal haiku.  Also, keep it short.  No more than 200 words.  I frequently write haibun in exactly 44 words (quadrille form).  Please keep your poem short - 200 or fewer words, please.



Have fun!  Let's have a picnic.  And please, be sure to visit other poets and join them on this picnic.  Visit. Read. Comment.  

7 comments:

Sanaa Rizvi said...

Loved the prompt, Toni! Mine is a wee little bit above 200 words .. but comes straight from the heart!❤️ Happy Thursday, everyone!

Linda Lee Lyberg said...

Hello Toni- Picnics must be on everyone's mind! Linking mine I wrote for Poets United.

tonispencer said...

Picnics are always fun!

tonispencer said...

I think so. They are popping up everywhere in Prompt Land@

Margaret said...

Going to try and write something on Friday... I have a few ideas from childhood but not sure how to get the words out...

Kim M. Russell said...

I'm looking forward to my first picnic with Lucas, Toni! They had one with a friend this week, which Ellen says he enjoyed. I'll read to him from The Wind in the Willows - he's a bit young for it but he just likes being read to at the moment!

Jim said...

The prompt should bring forth lots of picnics, it makes having one seem enticing. When I was young picnics sounded like so much fun, be it a twosome get-to-know-you affair or a family reunion. We've had two so far, a church BBQ with Blue Bell ice cream, the other a church parking lot hot dog and ice cream car show. Our car club used to have them as outing to drive to in our classic and antique cars. But we've disbanded now. Two items, we are running low 90's in days and low 70's at nights, spring is about to end. The other, my write is 77 words with title.
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