Howdy once again! It’s been a wild ride but this here’s the final post for Anyone Can Poem.

I’d planned to use this last post to wrap up everyone’s free verse poems from last month; problem is, no one came round to share ’em.

Instead, we’re a-gonna wrap up everything we done did learn over all the past year o’ poeming:

1. March, 2021. This was whare it all began. I asked you to take yourself on a relaxing date. While moseying around with such a stunning partner, you then needed to “word dump prosaically.”
   This was a way to loosen up any of y’all who was feeling nervous about writing.
2. April, 2021. Next, naturally, we tried mimicry. Parody. Pastiche.
3. May, 2021. I introduced haiku -sort-of. I’d always meant to come back to this beautiful form and do it right proper, but it is what it is.
4. June, 2021. This month was one o’ my favorites! We all tried limericks.
5. July, 2021. After expressing mah pet-peeve of messed-up meter, I suggested we mess up meters.
6. August, 2021. Continuing with meter, we ‘fixed’ some famous poems.
7. September, 2021. This ‘un discussed the need for concise poeming.
8. October, 2021. To further improve our poetry, I said to “pick impactful, meaningful words and phrases that put the reader in the moment.”
9. November, 2021. I delivered a healthy baby boy, and suggested we try an Acrostic Poem.
10. December, 2021. We faced the greatest poetic challenge of all: free verse. I’d meant for this ‘un to be a two-parter, but had to take a break on completin’ the second part till…
11. April, 2022. The follow-up on where we’d gone with free-versing.

An’ now we’re here. We’ve spent a year working together so y’all can be right cozy with writing a poem. I have no more challenges for you, excepting that you go through them steps anytime you think, I can’t write poetry.

I’m telling ya: YES, YOU CAN. Anyone can poem.

And, as always, you can send me any poem you’re struggling with. Just use the form at the bottom o’ one o’ the old challenges. I’m happy to help.

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©2022 Chel Owens