Come on, come on, you KNOW you’ll have a good time–
Cruuuuise with us! Hey, cruuuuise with us…"
WHY.in.THE.WORLD this chant is sing-songing in my brain is well beyond my powers of reasoning, but as I sat down to write a post to invite you to join this month’s Poetic License it was begging–YES, in my spirit, BEGGING–to jump onto the page.
Cheerleading is poetry in motion, no?
Well, here I am in all my high school glory, circa 1980, hair hot-rolled and shellacked with half a can of Rave hairspray–an avalanche couldn’t undo that do! These tools were necessary in order to maintain my perfectly-feathered coiffure while doing herkies and toe touches, a skill that hasn’t quite followed me into my 40s (<—click only if you want to laugh AT me, not WITH me!).
But I digress. We’re supposed to be talking poetry. I promisepromisePROMISE this is NOT classic "bait-and-switch" and me uploading pictures of me wearing a short skirt is NOT false advertising.
Pensieve’s Poetic License is back, and lest you’ve wondered where it’s been, I’ve moved it to the LAST week of the month rather than the first. Click the button for complete PPL details; in short, it’s a fun exercise designed to stretch you a bit creatively, even if you haven’t written poetry since, well…high school!
This month’s theme is……….BACK TO SCHOOL!! See? The picture DOES fit the theme! To make it even wilder and crazier, THERE IS NO REQUIRED POETIC FORM–I’m leaving it up to YOU! Fancy haiku? Knock your socks off! Have an affinity for Italian sonnet (not to be confused with an English sonnet)? Buono fortuna! Want to get my attention? Limericks do it every time. And if you want me to fall in love with you, move to Utah, convert to Mormonism, become a polygamist and MARRY YOU?? Well, you’re out of luck, but if you write a Pensieve? I will love, cherish and admire you forEVAH.
Get crackin’ people–invite your readers to join you because I have missed Poetic License so much I want to read a thousand back-to-school poems! Or a few less. Write yours anytime between now and Thursday; THEN, my own back-to-school poem will be posted along with Mr. Linky for you to link yours. Even if you don’t (yet) have a blog, write one and post it in comments.
Can’t wait! See ya then!!
Girl, yet another thing we have in common: we were both high school cheerleaders. 🙂
I’m not much of a poet, but I might just give it a shot. Who know, you might like it a lot. (sheesh, that was laaaame)
Oh my!! Anything? I don’t know much about poetic form! I rely on you to tell me what to do. 🙂
I never made it around to writing my friday 40 – things got too busy. 🙁 Perhaps I can eek one out later even though today is Monday… 😛
Hmmm?? I’m not sure if I’m feeling very poetic right now, but I am going to think about it.
I remember that 80s hair!! Oh the memories.
Those pics crack me up!!!!! lol
I’m soooooooooooooooooooo cracking up! You are soooooooooooooooooo CUTE!!!! I soooooooooooooooooooo remember the hairspray days!!! lol I had SUCH big hair in school!!!
PS – I love your cheerleading pic!!! =)
Doesn’t that just make you miss your school days?!?!? I know I do!!!!
Girl, this pic of you is so precious! So pretty, so skinny, so…high schooly! And you’re not too far from this now, except the different hairstyle. Must be nice!!
Anyhooty, I’ll stop turning green now and move on to say that I will try and join you this week for poetry. There certainly is a lot that can be said around here about back to school. I am enjoying it so far though.
TTYL
O. M. G. that picture is too funny! I never made it to cheerleader status, but I was a pom pom girl–a constant source of mocking and hilarity around here, let me tell you. My girls think it’s just CRAZY that I was even remotely interested in being one of “those” girls.
I was a cheerleader too. I think we had the exact same uniforms, too!
Go! you! You were very pretty! You still are!
Not sure I will have time to do this one, but will try.
Love this post (and the one of you trying jumps now)! I was a cheerleader, too, and it’s been on my mind because I’m writing a Cheerleading ABC book for an ed pub. Too funny!
Beautiful high school pic of you…now off to get crackin’ on a poem. I’m out of practice, too busy with the business side of things lately to enjoy any poetry:>/
Gotta give this some serious thought. I’m not feeling too poetical about back to school. We’ll see if I can get inspired.
Awesome photo! What a couple of teenage hotties!
Exciting! I’ll have to get started! I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and decided I had better comment! I also gave you two blogging awards! You can check them out on my blog! Thanks for the great posts!
How I had forgotten herkies! I’m so going home today and finding out if I can still do one. I am rather proud to say that at age 44 I can still do a cartwheel. It’s uncomfortable, but by golly, I can get my feet over my head and land upright. Ha! Take that middle age!
Okay I’ve written some poems but the idea of sending them to someone with my name attached it terrifying!
I’m going to have to work up the courage for this one 🙂
Back to school – should be easy, but now that you force me to actually have to choose a type of poetry it will be hard.
I’m in at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/89008.html. Shoot. I’m not supposed to put this here, but I blog early, so your post isn’t live yet. I’ll try to remember to pop over and add mine to Mr. Linky later this morning!
There’s more to school
than homework,
assignments,
tests and grades
like…
free time before the morning bell
free time after the last afternoon bell
and recess and lunchtime
sandwiched in between
–Carol-Ann Hoyte
P.S. I realized that I didn’t post my poem in the right spot the first time round. Apologies.