I was inspired to write a sort-of review, thereby, sort of using today's prompt. I just bought some super fun Melissa and Doug Blendy Pens...

NaPoWriMo, Day 7:

Hope Floats Anyway

Afloat, afar and away -

an angry balloon bursts,

Coasting clearly down,

doomed.

Evil eats Everything & erodes, entering efficiently even when I

Fight for freedom from forces forever favouring the favoured, flavoured with fortunate fate.

The fight gets going & I'm greeted by grey ghosts gathering graciously in hopeful homes inhabited happily & hungrily by hideous heroes who hear holiness in idiots & ingrates, incessantly judging,

joining in Kindred kahoots.

We long for love lost,

Mourn for mornings of memories; of misty maybes through a mostly murky mayhaim of mindless,

Non-existent nonsense - Nevermind.

Nobody knows.

Others Only over-obsess obnoxiously, otherwise

Poor pretty perfect people possibly

Questioning -quos; Quasimodo

Rock stars sailing & soaring atop, too tall towers.

Terrible tragedies & truths torment us.

Understanding unites

Vastly varied

Wisdom-seekers wandering willfully

Extracting & exuding extra-hope, yakking & yapping, yelling & yawning, the yea-Sayers of yesterday have

Zilch.

#TinkerSketch prompt was clouds. It was challenging to write my poem, today. I just played around with alliteration & the alphabet -- ooh, an Abecedarian Alliteration Attempt! -- hey, it counts for a full week:)

#TinkerSketch Prompt --> Draw to Music
SO I played a little Dittie on My Beautiful Piano (simply because I couldn't decide what music I wanted to draw to)....
https://soundcloud.com/nikki-schneider/la-doodle-song

Creativity Charm

Make some music make some noise
Forget about neighbours forget about poise
Blow a whistle bang a drum
Guitar or ukulele go ahead, strum

Get up and dance move your dancing feet
It's all good says Blue Cat Pete!
Move like a kid give it a whirl 
Skip, hop or even twirl

Get some paper any will do
Even an old receipt that you already threw
The sky's the limit get out your pens,
Crayons can give your soul a cleanse

The story of my poem:

Last night, I watched, 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.' (* a Super Cool show - see bottom for more about this.)  Today happens to be April 1st, the beginning of National Poetry Month and the NaPoWriMo - 30 poems in 30 days Challenge.  I came across 'alliteration' at school (I am a supply teacher). My Instagram Doodle-A-Day Sketchbook challenge by @TinkerLab is Circles.  All of this came together to serve as my 'prompt' for Day 1.

* About Cosmos:
Like the legendary original series by Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, it is the saga of how we discovered the laws of nature and found our coordinates in space and time. Hosted by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the series will bring to life never-before-told stories of the heroic quest for knowledge and transport viewers across the universe for a vision of the cosmos on the grandest scale. It will invent new modes of scientific storytelling to reveal the grandeur of the universe and re-invent celebrated elements of the original series, such as theCosmic Calendar and The Ship of the Imagination. The most profound scientific concepts will be presented with stunning clarity, uniting skepticism and wonder and weaving science with the emotional and spiritual into a transcendent experience.
http://www.globaltv.com/cosmos/

For today’s prompt, write a poem about something before your time. Maybe it’s a certain time in history. Or a type of music. Or a story that was shared by friends or family–before your time….

http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-prompts/2012-april-pad-challenge-day-5

It was some time before my years, before I was even a notion of an idea…

This is a photo of the Birthday Message Collage I made my nephew:)