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Day 5: A Snow Envy Skinny (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

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Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots of upheavals lately! I have no huge National Poetry Month plans–just hoping to share an imagepoem here each day (or as often as I can). I’m participating in Laura Shovan’s awesome #WaterPoemProject the best I can, so most of my poems will come from either that or from […]

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Day 4: Directional (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

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Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots of upheavals lately! I have no huge National Poetry Month plans–just hoping to share an imagepoem here each day (or as often as I can). I’m participating in Laura Shovan’s awesome #WaterPoemProject the best I can, so most of my poems will come from either that or from […]

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Things to Do if You Are Spring and Add Your Own Line #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I’m so pleased to have a Things to Do poem on the last page of the Spring 2020 edition of Children & Libraries, the ALSC journal. Here’s the first half of it. You can read the full text here: https://journals.ala.org/index.php/cal/article/view/7312/10021 Boy, spring looks a lot […]

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Day 2: Nature’s Project Runway (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

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Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots of upheavals lately! I have no huge National Poetry Month plans–just hoping to share an imagepoem here each day (or as often as I can). I’m participating in Laura Shovan’s awesome #WaterPoemProject the best I can, so most of my poems will come from either that or from […]

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Day 1: Ruler of the River (#NationalPoetryMonth2020)

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Like most everybody else, I’m experiencing lots of upheavals lately! I have no huge National Poetry Month plans–just hoping to share an imagepoem here each day (or as often as I can). I’m participating in Laura Shovan’s awesome #WaterPoemProject the best I can, so most of my poems will come from either that or from […]

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Splash Zone #WaterPoemProject

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Today’s poem is a form I’m unfamiliar with–a solage. I think I cheated, because only the first two lines are really supposed to rhyme? But here’s today’s imagepoem for Laura Shovan’s #WaterPoemProject.

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The Way I See It #WaterPoemProject

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I love rain. There are few times I wish fervently for it not to rain, but I know those times are much more frequent for young athletes and their families. Today’s prompt was to write about water in two stanzas with opposite viewpoints. Here’s today’s imagepoem for Laura Shovan’s #WaterPoemProject.

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Canyoning #WaterPoemProject

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I recently shared a favorite rock with some friends and also some schools I visited. It’s from Scotland, from a trip Randy and I took there in 2008. Today’s poem is inspired by a memory from that very same trip. Randy and I went canyoning, and it was AMAZING! Here’s today’s imagepoem for Laura Shovan’s […]

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What Is a Wave? #WaterPoemProject

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I love water. It’s such a source of peace and calm and also motion and excitement. It’s just magic. Here’s today’s imagepoem for Laura Shovan’s #WaterPoemProject.   I’m not thinking too hard about making these “good” poems or following all the directions exactly. But starting off most days with about 30 minutes spent 1) writing […]

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First Date Haiku [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) Well, in this world of chaos right now, poetry is one of the things keeping me calm and grounded. This month’s Poetry Princess challenge theme was “classic,” any form, any topic. I didn’t really know how to interpret that. But since my personal […]

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