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Poetry Friday,  Week 20: Student Work

5/17/2024

 
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Patricia at Reverie is hosting all the Poetry Friday goodness.  She has a seedling poem that is an amazing request of the seedling. I love her photos of the mother tree and the seedling.

Her post ties in so well because today I had the opportunity to do a "flash in the pan" poetry lesson with fifth graders (they are the highly capable and gifted all day class at the school I was subbing at in the library. Their class is only thirty minutes in length with time for book checkout.
I wanted to showcase the new book by Carol Labuzzetta, Picture Perfect Poetry and have students write to my photos from the book, thus creating their own ekphrastic poetry. My style is to offer a prompt and also allow the freedom to explore and play with their own poetry. I used a poetry frame for "I Am" and had them pretend they were an animal looking at the two  photos  I have in the book. 
I feel like this class had fun!

Poetry Friday, Week 36:  Hope is Morse Code

9/15/2023

 
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Today's Poetry Friday host is Rose at Imagine the Possibilities is sharing the Nevermores" poetry challenge a reverse poem.

I am in the middle of Washington state with my longtime college friends (ones I met my freshman year). We have bee gathering for a weekend since 2003.

What is Hope? edited by Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong arrived on ​August 18, 2023.

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Sylvia and Janet hosted another fantastic class, Think Poetry this summer. The challenge? Photos for ekphrastic poems on the theme of HOPE.
This photo, a visit in a hospital was one that spoke to me.  This tanka (five lines; 5-7-5-7-7) arrived with little fuss.


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What does I-LOVE-YOU look in Morse code?
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Poetry Friday, Week 2: My OLW Reveal

1/12/2023

 
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Welcome to Poetry Friday. Susan at Chicken Spaghetti has  hosting duties today.

In December my One Little Word came to me: CURIOUS.
​It was right around when I met Pamela Sue Johnson, a local mixed media artist.  I took her online class last Sunday to create an image with my OLW. 
As I enter a new decade in sixteen days (or have I already entered it? A friend said when I turned 69, I entered my 7th decade) I have been thinking a lot of the importance of staying CURIOUS. Curious and asking the question: "What if" has me teaching an online class (I fell like I am facilitating it), submitting poems, and creating art.

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Poetry Friday, Week 1: #smallpoemsjanuary

1/5/2023

 
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It's a new year and a new month. Catherine at Reading to the Core is hosting Poetry Friday this week. She shared that #inklings have a new challenge by Heidi: “write a poem which weighs the pros and cons of #change.” She added, “for extra fun, use any form, but consider starting in one form and gradually transitioning in the course of the poem to a quite different form.” And the Inklings created an exquisite corpse poem for the challenge.

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I am continuing my #smallpoemsjanuary.  I was able write a few this week amid trying to get over laryngitis, hubs still sick, and the latest with our burst pipes repair. This is our current state of our bedroom.  Hopefully, the equip can be removed on Friday.

I am looking forward to creating art on Sunday for my 2023 One Little Word.
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Shortbread by the recipe of Great Aunt Lizzie.
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This is the anniversary of Dad's passing in 2004. It's been 19 years.

Poetry Friday, Week 41:  Wordy 30

10/12/2022

 
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 Matt at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme is hosting Poetry Friday this week.  Matt is sharing his exciting new book, ​  A Beginner’s Guide to Being Human (Beaming Books, 2022).

Poetry Challenge:  The Inklings are serving up: Wordy 30 is a poem using exactly 30 letters. Each line should have the same number of letters. Each line should use one word. You might have 6 lines with 5 letters in each line (like Wordle), or 5 x 6, 3 x 10, 10 x 3, 15 x 2, 2 x 15, 30 x 1, or (most unlikely) 1 x 30.
This challenge has had me falling to sleep while thinking of five letter words or six letter words for the Wordy 30.



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