Riddle-Ku of the Day I am wrapped-up sun Boxed inside stone and metal Tied with flame ribbons ? –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ? HINT 1: HINT 2: . TITLE (AND ANSWER): FIREPLACE [Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire
Riddle-Ku of the Day This merry-go-round spins upside down: I’m singing the room full of breeze ? –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ? HINT 1: HINT 2: . TITLE (AND ANSWER): CEILING FAN [Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire
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 ? HINT 1: HINT 2: TITLE (AND ANSWER): FOREST [Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire month’s riddle-ku
Riddle-Ku of the Day I’m a metal snake whose flickering silver tongue bites into your lunch –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved ? HINT 1: HINT 2: TITLE (AND ANSWER): FORK [Educators, please click here to see a roundup of the entire month’s riddle-ku and also to
Sylvia Vardell and Janet Wong have done it again! This time, their Poetry Friday Anthology is focused on science, and there’s a K‑5 edition as well as individual grade-level student editions–illustrated! These books are fantastic, and I’m proud to have a number of poems in this set, and here’s one.
I’m excited about April, National Poetry Month! I can’t remember if I’ve ever done an original poem a day for April, but that’s what I’m going to do this time. I’m going to be sharing some riddle haiku–or riddle-ku. I know. Riddle-kulous, right? Anyway, I wanted to give you a
Usually in this feature, I share my process as a reader reading a poem someone else wrote. But for this one, I’m sharing the writing process behind a poem I shared last week on Poetry Friday, “Ocean Tales.” I was working on a set of poems that eventually became BOOKSPEAK!
view cop(R(. I’m sharing an unpublished poem today, one I originally wrote as part of the collection that became BookSpeak! Poems About Books (Clarion, 2011).? I hope you like it! Ocean Tales Each book is a drop in an ocean of choices, A glimpse of a maybe that someday might
I’ve got a poem up as poem of the day?at PoetryMinute.org, the site started by U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate Kenn Nesbitt that features a children’s poem every day. Today, starting at 7 a.m. and for 24 hours, my poem “Blush” from Stampede! Poems to Celebrate the Wild Side of School,
I wasn’t planning to post today, but Betsy’s Michigan poems inspired me when I stopped by to check out the round-up. So for my daily poem this morning, I wrote Song of the Ice Storm. Song of the Ice Storm winter storm swoops in on silent wings, but it nests
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