{"id":738,"date":"2017-12-26T15:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=738"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:37:08","slug":"poetry-challenge-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/26\/poetry-challenge-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This challenge is from <a href=\"http:\/\/kellybennett.com\/blog\/\">Kelly&#8217;s blog<\/a>. Be sure to check it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cEvery time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.\u201d Does that line ring a bell? It\u2019s little Zuzu enlightening her parents, George and Mary Bailey, in <em>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em> (one of my favorite holiday pics). This time of year zillions of angels must get wings because <em>Bells are Ringing!<\/em> (another one of my favorites). In the spirit of the season, let\u2019s get ringing!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Poetry Challenge #15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Ring My Bell!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bells come in many shapes and sizes, with so many different uses, and sounds!<br \/>\nBegin by listing as many bells as come to mind. Here are a few to get you started: Sleigh bells, steeple bells, harness bells, doorbells, elf shoe bells, cow bells, Santa\u2019s bells . . .<br \/>\nNext, list the different sounds those bells make. List real words and make up your own words by using letters to recreate sounds\u2014after all this is your bell. Does it bong? Ring-a-ling? Clink?<\/p>\n<p>Now, follow Zuzu\u2019s lead and imagine what magical thing might happen each time your bell rings?<\/p>\n<p>Write a poem about it. Be sure to include those sounds. Make your poem really ring!<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Start writing!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"text-align-center\"><strong>Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>*<a href=\"http:\/\/kellybennett.com\/blog\/\">Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge at least 630 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge be sure to let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole dang poem, in the comments!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This challenge is from Kelly&#8217;s blog. Be sure to check it out. \u201cEvery time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings.\u201d Does that line ring a bell? It\u2019s little Zuzu enlightening her parents, George and Mary Bailey, in It\u2019s a Wonderful Life (one of my favorite holiday pics). This time of year zillions of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/26\/poetry-challenge-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poetry Challenge #15&#8221;<\/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\/738"}],"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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}