Hello, teachers! Here’s another couplet from my What’s Inside? Poems to Explore the Park project. Most of the poems in this collection, which I’ll be announcing on Friday, are about natural items, but there are some manmade items, too, like this baseball. Stay tuned tomorrow for the answering quatrain:>)
What’s inside of this quick, blurry spin?
This small soaring globe in its white leather skin?
A Note from the Poet:
I wanted a way to describe a baseball without just saying baseball. I think the interesting thing about a baseball is its movement, so I looked for ways to show that. ?quick, blurry spin? and ’small soaring globe? focus on a baseball in action. Because a baseball just sitting there is not all that interesting, in my opinion.
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I love the last line Laura I’m hoping to get your books
Thanks, Jessica!
I love the last line Laura I’m hoping to get your books
Thanks, Jessica!
I’ve had students study baseball before, Laura, so I know what’s inside, but now am looking forward to how you describe it! This couplet is wonderful, that “quick, blurry spin”.
Thanks, Linda–Not being a huge baseball fan myself, this pair of poems was extra challenging!
I’ve had students study baseball before, Laura, so I know what’s inside, but now am looking forward to how you describe it! This couplet is wonderful, that “quick, blurry spin”.
Thanks, Linda–Not being a huge baseball fan myself, this pair of poems was extra challenging!