Poem-a-Day: #21
Birch bark learns to curl, yearns to sparkle like fireworks– crackles in campfire –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
Birch bark learns to curl, yearns to sparkle like fireworks– crackles in campfire –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
sun climbs all morning perches at sky-top: burns, sweats– declines rest of day –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved Happy Poetry Friday! Two pieces of news: 1) I’m on Your Daily Poem today! Do you know YourDailyPoem.com? I love it, and I was so thrilled when they took my poem
Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Photo by Paolo Costa Baldi. License: GFDL/CC-BY-SA 3.0 I love this panoramic view of the Colosseum. It makes me think of: 1.?Gladiators, of course 2. Lions 3. The lens of a microscope Here’s my poem first draft, in
on riser’s top row first-grader flashes?white smile sun lights up the gym –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- That one is for my beautiful niece, Lily, whose first-grade music show last night was fantastic! Poem in Your Pocket Day is next Thursday, April 26. What poem will you be
honeysuckle buckles, tucks green shoots and?fuschia buds? through warm, weathered fence –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- I’m visiting Irene Latham’s blog today (she of the progressive poem brilliance) and talking about metaphor in poetry, in 2 of my BookSpeak! poems in particular. I hope you’ll stop by and
pink, red, blue daisies dance and sway to draw your eyes– dying for drama –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved Plants in their natural state are always gorgeous, but I do love the totally fake and cheerful colors of dyed daisies! So, that’s where I got my haiku from today.
atop your shoulders, taller than I hoped to be, I see other worlds –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- Cue sappy poem music. But BookSpeak! won the Minnesota Book Award (Children’s Literature category) last night, and I’m in a floaty/sappy mood today! And in that banquet hall full of
crumpled index cards abandoned confetti scraps after the awards –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- I’m jotting a couple of notes on an index card for the Minnesota Book Awards banquet. I don’t expect BookSpeak! to win, but when Stampede was a Finalist, I panicked when they started the
crab dances on beach tickling sandy ivories ???? playing summer’s song –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved Happy Poetry Friday! This haiku was inspired by a crab running across the beach on Survivor this week. Those tiny pointy legs that run so lightly across the sand always surprise me (as
(for J.P.) Her hand winds through air. Her mind stretches toward sun– Reaching for meaning. –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ?—————————————————- Great news! BookSpeak! Poems About Books is on the Bank Street’s Best Books of 2012, Ages Five to Nine. Woohoo! At least, that’s what I’ve been told. I
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