It is Big Word Day today, April 21st, as well as World Creativity and Innovation Day. Plus, today’s poetry prompt talks about focusing on a color. I am a fan of warm colors, yellow, orange, and red, and the like. Among them, yellow is closest to my heart. Bright yellows, mellow shades too, and pale lemony yellows all help in brightening the world instantly for me (and many others too for sure). And words hold a special place in my life, both big and small ones. So today’s poetic section takes in a bit of everything.

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Poetic Sundays: Brightening My World with Yellow Words

NaPoWriMo Day 21 prompt is to write a poem that repeats or focuses on a single color. I am focusing on my favorite color, yellow, that never fails to light me up, inside and out! Seeing yellow in nature brightens and warms my heart, wearing certain shades of yellow makes me feel good and confident. To put it otherwise, yellow is my ray of hope, my shining cheerleader, my canvas of creativity, and my cloak of courage

Sunlit Symphony
Color me yellow, with a radiant aureolin glow,
Paint me in shades bold, where citrine and flavine hold.
With hues of gold and corn, let me shine like the Tuscan sun,
In pineapple sweetness, let the day be begun.
As bumblebees dance and dandelions sway free,
Add in the delight of honey, a pinch of dijon for glee.
~ Vidya Tiru @ LadyInReadWrites

Recently

On My Blog & at Home

My recent posts since and including my last Sunday Scribblings. Each letter of the alphabet features a poetic form for the letter as well as one or more books (poetry related).

• Records are Meant to be Broken: Right?
• Quick Responses to Questions that Matter
• Penning Ponderings on Poets: Tortured Tales(?) and More
• Other Words for Out of the Ordinary: Outliers and Such
• New Neologisms and Numerous More: Needless or Necessary?
• M is for Magic and Marvelous Material and More
• Sunday Scribblings #185: Hoping for Hope Love and Laughter Repeats

College campus tours and making up minds is what this week was about.. and lots of driving.. and discovering heretofore unknown paths home.

Upcoming

On My Blog & Homefront

Down to the final stretch of April’s month-long challenges this week, and I have a couple of confounding letters here, of course.. but let me see if I can line something up with some creativity (if all else fails)!

This Week’s Celebrations

Literary Celebrations (close-to-it also!)

• Literary birthdays this week of April include: Janet Evanovich, Louise Glück, Henry Fielding, and Vladimir Nabokov on the 22nd; William Shakespeare on the 23rd; Sue Grafton and Robert Penn Warren on the 24th; James Fenton on 25th; Lisa Unger 26th; August Wilson, Cecil Day Lewis, Mary Wollstonecraft 27th; Harper Lee and Terry Pratchett 28th
• The 23rd of April is International English Language Day (in honor of Shakespeare) as well as World Book Night. It is also Talk Like Shakespeare Day (duh.. but Shakespeare would say
• It is World Stationery Day on the 24th
• Followed by National Library Workers Day on the 25th
• The 27th is National Tell a Story Day and Eeyore’s Birthday!!<3. It is also Independent Bookstore Day
• National Great Poetry Reading Day is on the 28th

Foodie Celebrations

• It is National Jelly Bean Day on April 22nd. Your favorite Jelly Bean flavor?
• The 23rd is National Cherry Cheesecake Day and National English Muffin Day followed by
• Stop Food Waste Day on the 24th (being the Last Wednesday in April)
• National Zucchini Bread Day on the 25th of April
• While the 26th of April is National Pretzel Day
• April 27th is National Gummi Bear Day
• National Blueberry Pie Day is on the 28th of April

Other Celebrations

• April 22nd is International Mother Earth Day
• Get your picnic basket ready and head out, even if only to your backyard, on the 23rd for it is National Picnic Day. It is also National Take a Chance Day
• April 23rd is also Trails Day, which means you could even take your picnic further away from your backyard, if you so wish, so take a chance on it!
• It is National Skipping Day on the 24th, so get those skipping ropes out..and maybe wear some denim while you are it, for it is also Denim Day
• April 25th celebrates World Penguin Day, National Telephone Day, and  International Girls In ICT Day
• The 26th happens to be World Intellectual Property Day, National Audubon Day, and National Richter Scale Day. It is also Get Organized Day
• April 27th is World Tapir Day  and World Healing Day. It is also National Go Birding Day
• Pay it forward, and be a hero in someone’s life on the 28th, as it is Global Pay It Forward Day and National Superhero Day. It is also World Pinhole Photography Day

Wrapping Up My Brightening Sunday Scribblings

Linking this to the Sunday Post over at the Caffeinated Reviewer and the Sunday Salon. Also linking up to A-Z, Blogchatter, UBC, NaPoWriMo (on Sundays, not to A-Z, Blogchatter)

And you can find all my A-Z+ posts (this year and previous years’ as well) here:

A to Z Challenge Posts