All days are special,
but birthdays especially so.
Coming only once a year,
dear day to all who love you,
elaborate preparations are made
for a festival fit to celebrate you.
Grand gestures are not needed to
honor the celebrant,
icing thick on cake delish
just overdone enough.
Knowing you cannot attend this year
leaves a bitterness no cake can cure,
many were the years we had you here but
now we cannot watch you blow out your candles. Still,
open up the
present I give you,
quiet joy in memories
rich with happiness,
stories we will
tell about your
undeniable charm and strength, your
vagrant restlessness and motorcycle trips
waging war against the norms,
x-raying problems to find the solutions within.
You were better and bigger than any day could hold, the
Zenith of us all, and today we honor you.
Copyright ©2026 Lisa Paul. All rights reserved.
Christine’s challenge on W3 Prompt
Write an alphabet poem using one of the following two structures:
Option 1 — 26 words, A–Z once each (Any order)
Write a poem of exactly 26 words.
- Each word must begin with a different letter of the alphabet.
- All 26 letters (A–Z) must be used exactly once.
- The letters may appear in any order.
- No repeated initial letters.
Option 2 — A–Z in order by line
Write a poem with 26 lines, where the first word of each line begins with the next letter of the alphabet in order: A, B, C … through Z.
- Maintain thematic or narrative coherence.
A Little Bit of Everything, With Love 