It's No April Fools Day Joke - We've Moved

So many things to discuss here; but I am going to limit this posting to the big move and the new monthly theme.  First, the new move.  What is worse than moving?  You have no idea how difficult it is to pack up a bunch of poetry.  The haiku poems came quietly and politely with a silent bow.  The name acrostics required a very loud roll call to rally.  The cinquains finally marched into a moving box five by five and the quatrains marched in four by four (ark-style.)  However, the Clerihews kept slapping each other across the face with gloves and dueling and the limericks were so drunk they fell right off their barstools and slept.  Don't even get me started on the roses are red poems, they were surprisingly thorny.

But everything is finished and we have moved.  And I hope this blog dies here and never has to move again.

As for the monthly theme:  I do have some news here.  As it turns out there are limit choices of relatively short poem types, so I am expanding the selection to literary devices as well.  This month's theme/literary device is alliteration, defined as the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in "apt alliteration's artful aid."  So this month's  "poetry type" is kind of a free style, but I will use alliteration in every post this month.

I assure you this is no April fools joke!  I feel obligated to append that to everything I say today.  I'm not a huge fan of April Fools Day because I think it usually has more mean pranks that funny pranks.  If you hear of a good one though, please feel free to share it in the comments section!

The fourth month's first day.
Full of new fools
Forged from festive follies
Fashioned in pursuit of fun
But often fuchsia-faced and flustered.
For far longer than any laughter lasts.