Delta Girls

This book actually has nothing to do with our theme for the month, but I just finished reading it and discovered something really cool!  It's called "abecedarian poetry."  Basically, you write a poem where the first letter of every word uses the letters of the alphabet in order. 

This is one from the book:

Apple brownbetty cures depression.
Eat fruit generously; hunger is just
kindling, lurking minutes north
of pleasure.  Quit rationing;
start tasting unlimited varieties,
wanting x-tasy, yumminess, zest.

As you can see, you sort of cheat with "X."  I wrote one for this book - it doesn't quite make sense until you read the book, I think, but it was fun!  I'm going to try to use "abcde poetry" in a lesson for my students.  :)

A book concerning Delta events for girls harvesting in June.
Karen likes macho Nathan.
Organic pears quite ready!
Skate Tristan.
Underwater Vieira whales X-cite young zealots.