Riddle-Ku! [pencil crop]

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

26 Responses

  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

    1. 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

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

  3. 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.

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

  4. 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.

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

  5. 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.

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

  6. 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.

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

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

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

  9. 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

  10. 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

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

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

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