April is National Poetry Month and here is a poem to celebrate that and the cheerful sunshine streaming through my windows:


lemon juice invisible ink
Annette Marie Hyder

kittens play in yellow bars of sunshine —
the heat shows up all the faintest squiggles and spots
on their glossy, secret-code fur



Links of interest:

How to make invisible ink
The color yellow
National Poetry Month
Poets.org


Poem a day

Interested in writing a poem a day? Over at the Poetic Asides blog there's a month long project with the aim of participants doing that very thing (or at least to have fun trying).  From Robert at Poetic Asides:

The basics: I provide a prompt and sample poem each morning (Georgia, USA, time). Then, poets write their poems in response to the prompt. Poets from all over the world can (and have in the past) participate. There is no fee, no registration, no pressure. This challenge is all about writing poetry and having fun.

Those who have participated in the past have ranged from poets who have published multiple collections to writers who have never written poetry before. It's also included many poets who haven't written poetry in years. And many poems written for these challenges have then gone on to be published in poetry journals and magazines.