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Poetry Stretch: Climbing Rhyme

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OK, I admit I’m feeling distressed today at all the layoffs, firings, and restructurings in the children’s publishing world. I’m not a big businessperson, and I don’t really know all the implications of yesterday’s bloodbath at HMH, S&S, etc. But I’m waiting to hear whether two editors I either have books in progress with or […]

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Double-Jointed Poetry Stretch

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Robin at Pensieve has this photo up for her Friday’s 40 exercise this week. And Miss Rumphius has challenged us to write a rictameter, which sounds like a cinquain on steroids. Syllable count of 2-4-6-8-10-8-6-4-2, and the first and last line are the same word(s). I’ve never heard of a rictameter before; have you? Sounds […]

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Twisted

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This week’s Friday’s 40 at Pensieve is a great image! I love pictures of branches and trees. I’m not feeling great, but I want to participate. So, here goes…a little poem skeleton: Before School perched on a stoolencircled by Mom’s kneesas she  pulledtuggedturned braiding orderinto my hairinto my life –by Laura Purdie Salas It’s not […]

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Miss Rumphius’ poetry stretch

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Miss Rumphius has a photo-based Poetry Stretch this week, and the image is arresting. I tend not to choose images with people, because I usually prefer a more neutral scene that I can interpret any way I want. So writing a poem to an image that has both a person and a very strong mood is […]

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Miss Rumphius’ poetry stretch: Metaphor Poem

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This week, Miss Rumphius challenged us to a metaphor poem. Last time I participated, I wrote a roundel about dreams. This morning, as I lay in bed at 4:30 trying to fall back asleep (I’ve been waking up early–even earlier than my usual 5:30 time—lately), metaphors for dreams started to float through my head. So I […]

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Miss Rumphius’ poetry stretch

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Shoot! I just realized I haven’t done this week’s Poetry Stretch from the Miss Rumphius Effect yet! It’s a photopoetry challenge this week–I love that! When I first glanced at the picture, I thought those were pigs on the ground. I’m relieved to see that they’re really yams. I decided to write a haiku about this […]

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