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Some Poems for World Refugee Day

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World Refugee Day is coming up on June 20. This is a subject that holds power for me, and looking at the photos of refugees, meeting asylum seekers in a refugee camp overseas, and talking to people who work to help with refugees have all inspired me to write poems over the years, and you […]

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Lunch in a Refugee Reception Centre [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) This month, Tanita came up with our challenge: a poem in the style of Marilyn Nelson’s “Minor Miracle,” about a small, miraculous thing you have seen or known. I’ll wait here while you read Marilyn’s stunning poem. All finished? So, although I’ve tried […]

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Refugee Camp Mural [15 Words or Less]

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Hello, and welcome! This is 15 Words or Less Poems, a low-pressure way to wake up your poetry brain (guidelines here), and I’m very glad you’re here.  Here in the United States, we celebrated our independence and freedom yesterday. (Hope you had a fun  holiday!) I thought this might be a good week to share […]

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Mediterranean Blue, by Naomi Shihab Nye #PoetryFriday

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Happy Poetry Friday! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I just finished reading Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea, a powerful recent Lee Bennett Hopkins anthology. Wow. I love the ocean so much, and these poems about ocean voyages and voyagers really touched me. Having just visited a refugee camp on an […]

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Visiting Kirby Larson and Ekphrastic Poetry with Princesses [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) I have two things today. First, Meet My Family published yesterday! I’m honored to be over at Kirby Larson’s Friend Friday, discussing how my own unusual family (ok, let’s be honest–my own weird family when I was a child) led to Meet My […]

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Leaving Things Behind – a Golden Shovel Poem [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, this month, our Poetry Princess challenge was to write a golden shovel poem. Tricia chose this prompt, and she also chose Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “Pied Beauty” as the poem we would all choose our lines from.  This time around, I shared my […]

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One Day Too Late–Villanelles from the Poetry Princesses [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday! Welcome, everyone! (Wondering what Poetry Friday is? Click here.) So, last Saturday, I looked at our Poetry Princess challenge list for this year and discovered we were sharing villanelles this week. On the theme of brevity or shortness. Which was funny, because a villanelle is a long poem to me. And scary, […]

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Ekphrastic Poems with the Poetry Sisters [Poetry Friday]

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Happy Poetry Friday!   It’s that time again–we Poetry 7 are sharing poems! Last month, we Poetry 7 wrote etherees, which I loved! This month, we tackled ekphrastic poems–all inspired by the same image. Tanita Davis shared this one, which caught our eyes and our imagination right away.   

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