![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() 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? ![]() 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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