#WaterPoemProject: Day 18, Mike Grosso
It’s Day 18 of our #WaterPoemProject — 30 days of water-themed poetry prompts from your favorite children’s authors.If you’re looking for National Poetry Month writing prompts, we’ve got you covered. Start with Day 1 and you’ll have poetry prompts from now through the end of April.New to this project? Please read the Introduction and FAQ. Or you can watch this video of me describing how to participate. It’s on the YouTube channel Authors Everywhere.My good friend, middle grade author, coder, educator, and poet Mike Grosso is in charge of today's writing prompt.Mike’s poetry prompt is: Waterplay!
When I think of water, I don’t think of drinking,or washing my face, feet, and hands(though the last is important).I think of play.There are so many ways --you can swim, wade, dip your fingers and toesbeneath the surface on a blazing hot day.Do you jump in feet or head-first?Or are you still gathering the courage to do so?You can splash-dive and soak the witnesses,or Marco Polo with eyes closed, splish and splash,floating like a croc across the surfacebefore putting your head under andpretending to be the water monster.Some of us avoid the moving sprinkler as it inches towards us,while others run right into the spray.All of this water play is the right way.But how do you play?That’s the poem you should write today.***Alright playful poets! Let's get our feet wet, make a mess, and PLAY with water in our drafts today. Your task is to have a rough draft by the end of the day tomorrow, Thursday, April 9, 2020.If you’re doing the #WaterPoemProject with a group, be sure to share or post your rough draft, read other people’s poems, and cheer for their efforts. Or leave your poem here, in the comments.
Mike Grosso is an author, musician, game designer, and middle school math teacher who always keeps a guitar in his classroom. Mike writes books and records music at his home in Oak Park, Illinois, where he lives with his son, fiance, and a drum set he plays much too loud. I AM DRUMS is his first middle grade novel. Find Mike online at http://www.mikegrossoauthor.com/***#WaterPoemProject Series Posts:Project IntroductionFAQPrompt 1: Irene Latham, The Language of WaterPrompt 2: Elizabeth Steinglass, What Would a Raindrop Say?Prompt 3: Linda Mitchell, Found HaikuPrompt 4: Shari Green, Fogbow FibonacciPrompt 5: Margaret Simon, The Taste of WaterPrompt 6: Heather Meloche, The Shape of a WavePrompt 7: Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, A Water MemoryPrompt 8: Laura Shovan, Rainy Day OppositesPrompt 9: Kathryn Apel, Silly SolagePrompt 10: Buffy Silverman, A Watery HomePrompt 11: Kara Laughlin, Frozen FogPrompt 12: Debbie Levy, Jump into a LimerickPrompt 13: Joy McCullough, What Are Water Bears?Prompt 14: Linda Baie, Frozen Water SkinnyPrompt 15: Chris Baron, The Hidden World of WaterPrompt 16: Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, Water WordplayPrompt 17: Susan Tan, The Sound of WaterPrompt 18: Mike Grosso, Waterplay!Prompt 19: R. L. Toalson, Wishing WellPrompt 20: Margarita Engle, Ode to the ShorePrompt 21: Faye McCray, Poem in a BubblePrompt 22: Meg Eden, Surprising ConnectionsPlease support the #WaterPoemProject authors by buying their books from your favorite independent bookstore.