Shhh! Don’t tell the Poetry Friday police! I’m posting a day early because I leave tomorrow morning at 5 a.m. for the airport to head to Chicago for ALA.
This week’s Poetry Stretch at The Miss Rumphius Effect is all about recipe poems. On Monday and Tuesday, I wrote recipe poems for my daily poems.
Recipe for a Waterfall
(Best served outdoors on a hot day)
Pour water into riverbed—
Don’t measure, don’t level—
Drop in boulders
Mix until frothy
Scrape sides of banks clean
Add one cliff
Toss in gravity
Stretch sheets of liquid glass into bottomless bowl below
Sprinkle hawks overhead
Season with summer sun
Splash with a dash of wonder
Combine with mist
Let sit until you’ve had your fill or until evening’s chill cools dish
How to Make a Bad Mood
Toss and turn all night
Combine broken alarm clock with morning detention
Roll your eyes at the ever-cheerful Ms. Lovejoy
Grind your teeth during music class
Measure each insult thrown your way
Peel back politeness
Pinch the piccolo player next to you on the bus
Stew over having to share a bedroom—not fair!
Scald your little sister by ignoring her “Guess what!”
Simmer when your parents don’t notice you’re mad
Bring your mood to a full boil
Melt down
Beat yourself up
Cover yourself with blankets and turn on your iPod
Chill out and hope tomorrow is better
–poems by Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
It’s not too late for you to cook up your own poems! Check out the Poetry Stretch info here, and see the results here. They’re delicious!
And the wonderful Jama has the Poetry Friday roundup at Jama Rattigan’s Alphabet Soup!