Celebrating World Poetry Day 2022

Wonderful Wizardry of Poetry

An acrostic sonnet

Carolyn Hastings
Paper Poetry
Published in
3 min readMar 25, 2022

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An animated image of a cartoon style wizard in purple robes using his staff to charm the words, ‘World Poetry Day’. Words and wizard are  set against a background of a large uncut amethyst rock.
Animated poster created by writer in Canva

“You don’t write because you want to say something,
you write because you have something to say.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wonderful wizardry of poetry
Ordinary words become lyrical
Rhyme, meter and form…

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Carolyn Hastings
Paper Poetry

Well-practiced speech pathologist now practicing to be a children’s book writer — emphasis on practicing.