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Riddle-ku (National Poetry Month 2014)

 

Riddle-Ku of the Day

I’m a pencil crop
writing love notes on the ground–
erasing the sky
–Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
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HINT 1:

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HINT 2:

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TITLE (AND ANSWER):

FOREST

 

[Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire month’s riddle-ku and also to get suggestions for using these riddle-ku with your students.]

UPDATE: My riddle-ku are now available in Kindle and paperback as Riddle-ku: Haiku for Very Close Reading (along with tons of great auxiliary materials for teachers), part of the 30 PAINLESS CLASSROOM POEMS series.

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Riddle-ku: Book 2 in the 30 Painless Classroom Poems series

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Comments

  1. “Erasing the sky” – they will be doing that shortly, when spring comes around! Loved the actual images and the imagary in your poem.
    Donna Smith
    The A-to-Z Challenge
    Mainely Write

    • Thanks, Donna. Birch forests, in particular, are one of my favorite sights when we go to northern Minnesota. :>)

  2. “Erasing the sky” – they will be doing that shortly, when spring comes around! Loved the actual images and the imagary in your poem.
    Donna Smith
    The A-to-Z Challenge
    Mainely Write

    • Thanks, Donna. Birch forests, in particular, are one of my favorite sights when we go to northern Minnesota. :>)

  5. What a creative image. I don’t think I would have ever come up with that, but after reading/seeing the pic, wow! The winds we had last week were definitely erasing the sky, hopefully making a clean slate for a spring version. The fallen trees were writing notes but I can’t say they would have been love notes. I like your interpretation better.

    • Hehe–yeah, sometimes trees write furiousletters, too! Thanks, Martha!

  6. What a creative image. I don’t think I would have ever come up with that, but after reading/seeing the pic, wow! The winds we had last week were definitely erasing the sky, hopefully making a clean slate for a spring version. The fallen trees were writing notes but I can’t say they would have been love notes. I like your interpretation better.

    • Hehe–yeah, sometimes trees write furiousletters, too! Thanks, Martha!

  7. We have the aspen here, kin to birches, & we always think these trees look as if they have hidden messages in their bark, too, Laura. I too love that ‘erasing the sky’, keeping the metaphor.

    • Thanks, Linda–yes, I love aspen! Oooh, the sound they make in a breeze is magical.

  8. We have the aspen here, kin to birches, & we always think these trees look as if they have hidden messages in their bark, too, Laura. I too love that ‘erasing the sky’, keeping the metaphor.

    • Thanks, Linda–yes, I love aspen! Oooh, the sound they make in a breeze is magical.

  9. I rely like all the images it seams like a much longer poem it says a lot in few words

  10. I rely like all the images it seams like a much longer poem it says a lot in few words

  11. The shadow of trees on the snowy ground do write secret massages across the ground when i was younger i all ways wonted to make a move of shadows
    On the ground with musice and poems that would go with them I have done that yet

  12. The shadow of trees on the snowy ground do write secret massages across the ground when i was younger i all ways wonted to make a move of shadows
    On the ground with musice and poems that would go with them I have done that yet

  15. Oh very clever, Laura! I hope you are going to make a book out of these.

  16. Oh very clever, Laura! I hope you are going to make a book out of these.

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