#blogging4charity – The Apollo Mission

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For my next #blogging4charity challenge, I will need help from all my readers and followers of Dyslexia and Me! Yes, that means you!

I want to raise as much money this year as I can for the British Dyslexia Association by boldly going on my very own Apollo Mission!!! 

…Ok, not THAT kind of Apollo Mission.

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THIS Apollo! The Greek God who was the god of poetry.

My plan is to write one piece of poetry a day for a month! I am thinking July would give me enough time to prepare myself for this task! But I need your help!

What I want you to do (other than donating what you can) is to send me 4 words. The 4 words must be rhyming pairs and can be in one of two ways:

Example 1

Cat, hat, chicken, licken.

Example 2

Hat, chicken, cat, licken.

From these 4 words that you submit to me, I have to make these words into a piece of poetry (which will hopefully be better than the ones below):

Example 1

There was a very proud black cat,
Who often wore an eccentric hat.
If you knew him you would call him ‘chicken’,
For his battle wounds he was always licken’.

Example 2

The lady had a feathery hat
Whose feathers came from a chicken
For every time she saw her cat
His lips he was always licken’.

So I will have 31 poems to write for 31 days! I know that there are quite a few people following my blog or on social media, far more than 31. However, I want as many of you to either respond to me through the blog or on social media (wherever you follow my blog from) and send me 4 words! No swear words though or words in foreign languages. The more submissions I get, the longer the poems will have to be.

I need to have as many submissions by 15th of June so I can get started on preparing the poems. I will credit each person that submits the words on the poem and if you are on Twitter or Facebook I will try to let you know which one contains your words.

I would love if each person submitting could donate £1 through my JustGiving page to British Dyslexia Association once the poem has been published on the blog so I can get closer to my £1000 target for 2015!

Thanks very much, and I look forward to seeing what words you submit!