Many of you know I spent years working as a professional writer, but did you know about my connection with poetry? Yeah, I don’t know about the connection, either. And that’s why I’m taking the Poetry 101 class with Blogging University.

If I can keep up with assignments, I’ll be writing a poem each weekday based on a topic/style assigned. Feel free to laugh at me, give me pointers, encourage me, whatever. It’s a learning experience and at the very least I should make everyone else feel great about their poetry 🙂
Assignment 1 was:

Write a poem involving magic, whatever your take on the magical might be.

Magic

Carnival music

And a hawker’s call

Ready to reveal

Mystic powers to all

It’s fun, yes, that’s true

But don’t you agree?

No magic’s quite like

The flight of a bee