March 2026 SOLC–Day 12
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I’ve been wanting to play more, to have a little more fun when I was writing. I’ve wanted to embrace the silly and surprising, and maybe work on creating more poems for kids. The other day I read something that led me to another site, where I clicked on a link and read something else, that made me do a google search that led me to yet another site, where I clicked another link and then eventually, somehow or other, I wound up at Kenn Nesbitt’s website. I think that was where I was meant to be all along.

What a treasure of a site this is! Kenn has all sorts of wonderful things on offer and after poking around a bit, I ended up reading a lesson on writing tongue twister poems. He suggested, “…using lots of words with “b” and “g” sounds. “You might write a poem about someone named “Gabby” who bought a “beagle” that “begged” for “bagels.” I stole the bagel idea and ran with it:

Bobby bought a bag of bagels
at the nearby bagel store
built a tower on his table
bagels bobbled, hit the floor

Bobby’s bungled bagel building
stopped his gobbling more and more
Bagels wiggled, bagels woggled–
bagels boogied out the door

It’s certainly not perfect, but it was fun!