My old laptop has been giving me problems throughout April, and so we decided to replace it. We just picked it up about three hours ago, and it is so wonderful to have a good reliable computer again!!
Prompt # 28: Growth. This is two poem styles in one. The first one is both a "picture poem" and also an "acrostic." (Both are to be read from the bottom of the poem on up to the top.)
HEIGHTS
TO new
WIDENING
OUT
REACHING
GRADUALLY
© cjj – 2014
Prompt # 29: Conceit. This is an epitaph (like what is found on a tombstone), & my own little poem here follows a rhyme pattern of - AABB, & has 6 syllables per line.
© cjj – 2014
Prompt # 30: Patience. This final poem is a Kyrielle.
A kyrielle is written in rhyming couplets or quatrains. It has a refrain in the 2nd line of the couplet, or if written in a quatrain as mine is, the refrain is in the fourth line of each stanza. The entire line does not need to be used in the refrain. Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the number of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but two or three is considered the accepted minimum.
Patience we're told is a virtue.
For this, Job is cited you know,
And Moses was patient, too.
First Place: GOD! He loves to bestow --
Patience, a fruit of His Spirit.
Through trials our patience will grow,
For God promises strength, so don't quit!
Patience is God's gift to bestow.
© cjj – 2014
Here's a resource for many of the pictures, picture lines, animations, etc. that I use which are free to use! If you aren't familiar with it, it has a HUGE number of resources which can be used on your blog.
I have been learning patience as I have been working on my defective laptop this past month. I'm so thankful that we were able to get this new one. I have plenty of things to blog about from the month of April, but will do so gradually now. I want to have a permanent reminder with my pictures and narrative of what all happened in April, 2014.
A huge thanks to Val for her National Poetry Month prompts, and for her continual, faithful reading and encouraging of all of us who tried to use the prompts for prose, poetry, pictures, jokes, etc. 
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