Boy howdy<\/em>, where would we be without those garbage trucks to roll down the street gobbling up trash! Buried under piles, heaps, mounds of smelly yuck is where. Pee-yew!<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n One fella, John D. Arwood, knowing what\na smelly world this could be, designated June 17th<\/sup> as Global Garbage\nMan Day, in honor of the hard-working, under-appreciated trash collectors who\nkeep our communities clean. Let\u2019s join in the celebration!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Hip-Hip-Hooray! It\u2019s Global Garbage Man Day <\/p>\n\n\n\n Write a garbage poem\u2014it can be about a garbage truck, garbage collector, or kinds of garbage. Toss in as many words that include the letter g as you can. And, at least one onomatopoeia. Can you make your poem sound like a garbage truck roaring down the street? <\/p>\n\n\n\n For extra fun, read Trashy Town<\/em><\/strong>\nby Andrea Zimmerman & David Clemesha, illustrated by Dan Yacarrinao. Here\u2019s\na link to the read-aloud: https:\/\/youtu.be\/jFu0_hWbE2Q<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Global Garbage Man Day: https:\/\/nationaldaycalendar.com\/global-garbage-man-day-june-17\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began\n this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1400 days ago. We now take turns \ncreating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the \n7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or \n if you want, the whole poem in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Global Garbage Man Day Boy howdy, where would we be without those garbage trucks to roll down the street gobbling up trash! Buried under piles, heaps, mounds of smelly yuck is where. Pee-yew! One fella, John D. Arwood, knowing what a smelly world this could be, designated June 17th as Global Garbage Man Day, in … Continue reading “Poetry Prompt #144”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Set your timer for 7 minutes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it!<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Start writing! <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n