Here we are, at last. The final day. I have loved having part of this month be posting poems I thought you’d enjoy. The final prompt asked us to: Visit your local restaurant, bar or coffee shop and snag a copy of the menu. Write a poem using only words and phrases found on the menu.
This, as with any source, depends on text to be workable. I was lucky. I chose a Japanese menu. The restaurant must make a hundred rolls and they name every single one of them. In fact, I had too many words. The first things I did was delete words I knew I wasn’t going to use, so the list was not so intimidating. I like what I finally arrived at: Life is a Japanese Menu.
Other items on the menu (I went nuts today, because it’s the final one):
Barbara C: Please ask
Richard Walker: aromas!
Massimo Soranzio: Buried within
Misky: Filling and Earl Grey at Pret
Kimmy Stühle: Angels on the Moon
Gary Glauber: The Western Chinese Amigo’s Umbrella
Zann Carter:Live–Often and Well
Andrea Janelle Dickens: Émigré Memories
Lori Brack: gypsy midnight
Okay, I’m stopping. The relatives are on their way from the airport, so I guess I should cast my eye over the flat. The dusting… ah, well. Enjoy these. I hope to, a couple of times next month, post links to some more that I come across as I go back through and read without a deadline.
I will see you Tuesday for my regular prompt; Thursday for links and such; and Friday for the prompt roundup.
Margo Roby: Wordgathering 
Luanne
30/04/2015 at 11:02 am
Thanks for these! Happy National Keep a Poem in Your Pocket Day!
margo roby
30/04/2015 at 11:13 am
A Happy National Keep a Poem in Your Pocket Day, too!
Misky
30/04/2015 at 11:24 am
It was such great fun, and I’m looking forward to next April! xx
margo roby
30/04/2015 at 11:36 am
To next April, Misky! xx
http://vivinfrance.wordpress.com
30/04/2015 at 11:33 am
Bravo for staying the course, with a form of poetry I find impossible! Enjoy your relations.
margo roby
30/04/2015 at 11:37 am
Thank you, ViV! I am surrounded by them as I type.
julespaige
30/04/2015 at 11:49 am
Well now that looks like a prompt I could stick my teeth into…
(one of these days). 🙂
“Z” is here:
https://juleslongerstrandsofgems.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/unofficial-z-for-mj-april-2015-s/
margo roby
30/04/2015 at 2:33 pm
In your spare time, right, Jules?
margo roby
30/04/2015 at 12:23 pm
Two more poems to try. When I tried to edit to add them, bloody WordPress puts it in the new format which is hopeless.
Vinita: http://www.pomosco.com/out-and-about/orders-up/dateless-hunger/
james: http://www.pomosco.com/out-and-about/orders-up/any-penny/
barbcrary
30/04/2015 at 2:27 pm
I’m rather looking forward to a return to routine, although I wouldn’t have missed this month of challenges for anything!
margo roby
30/04/2015 at 2:32 pm
Barbara: Amen!
whimsygizmo
30/04/2015 at 4:46 pm
What great fun this was. I picked a sushi menu, because I love the names of the rolls. 🙂
https://whimsygizmo.wordpress.com/2015/04/30/kamikaze-girl-the-white-dragon/
whimsygizmo
30/04/2015 at 4:49 pm
And THANK you for the bonus prompts this month, the links to amazing poems, and the encouraging comments. I’ve enjoyed it so much! I still have a handful or two of the PoMoSco’s I didn’t get to…fodder for May. 😉