 ©Graphic by Amber Fleek Welcome to Poetry Friday. I am so excited for today's prompt by our host Irene Latham: Poetry Roundup will be a "Moon in June" theme here at Live Your Poem! I can't wait to read your moon poems...and/or whatever else you choose to share! Her newest book about the moon comes out in August. Can't wait. I was born on a full wolf moon and that should explain everything. I watch the phases and love photographing the moon and creating art with a moon in it. (In fact, I wanted to have a piece for this Friday but, time got away from me). I found a draft of a moon poem from 2019. I wrote two versions then. Today I did a revision.  On the Night, Version 3  There must have been some deep memory about writing those version in 2019. This year, I wrote this for my 70th birthday. I was lucky enough to see the full moon on the coast in January 2023. So unusual for a clear night.  Be sure to find Irene's new book when it arrives in August.
© Graphic design by Amber Fleek Linda at A Word Edgewise is hosting Poetry Friday this Friday. She is featuring some clunker lines for people to see how they can use them and invite us to leave a clunker line. Wednesday was summer Solstice. I have two poems for the return of summer. One was written last summer when I was at the Hill of Tara in Ireland, It was magnificent to be there on Solstice. After I took the photo on Wednesday, I saw the shape of a heart in the trees and branches. Can you see it?  Hill of Tara, Ireland June 21, 2022  Happy Valley, OR June 21, 2023 Thank you Michelle at Michelle Kogan for the hosting duties this week. Her watercolors are full of summer juiciness as she illustrates a Spotted Sandpiper. It's Thursday morning and I am prepping this post because this evening oldest grand girl GRADUATES from high school. It's hard to fathom that she's old enough. On Monday, I had the opportunity to teach the "I AM" poetry lesson to the class I had originally prepared the lesson for and ended up sick. It gave me an opportunity to try the process by writing the poem first and creating the hand collage second. I feel like it made a difference. PLUS my former assistant gifted me with animal magazines so students had better access to animal pictures (still missing some but definitely a key for better collages). Where I had two days with the other class, I only had the morning with this class as the afternoon was filled with Field Day (and it was almost 90 degrees!). I started with a slide show. I was able to pull some student work from the previous class that I share as mentor poems. Don't you love the bearded dragon? I didn't really see it when I glued that hand and poem originally. I had to share as an option of what to do if your animal wasn't available. It's the end of year and I wish I had all the poems from the second class but I was able to get a few. The following three spoke to me. Because I didn't have the time to mount the poems like the previous class, I had them transfer their poem and then glue their hand one. So it's another option for older grades. Mark your calendars for June 30.
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