Hello, teachers! Here’s another couplet from my What’s Inside? Poems to Explore the Park project. Most of the poems in this collection, which I’ll be announcing on Friday, are about natural items, but there are some manmade items, too, like this baseball. Stay tuned tomorrow for the answering quatrain:>)   What’s inside of this quick, […]

Hi, teachers! Here’s the answering quatrain to yesterday’s What’s Inside couplet!     Petals like velvet, the color of blood, that fill up the breeze with a soft sweet perfume will flow down the hill in a flowerful flood as sunshine uncurls, unfurls each bloom   A Note from the Poet: My favorite words in […]

Hi, teachers! Here’s another couplet from my What’s Inside? Poems to Explore the Park project. Stay tuned tomorrow for the answering quatrain:>)     What’s inside of a tightly closed bud, this tip of this stick sticking out of the mud?       A Note from the Poet:   I love assonance, which is […]

Hi, teachers! Here’s the answering quatrain to yesterday’s What’s Inside couplet!   Changing to Moth ? Caterpillar started out, spring green and bright, It’s changing to moth, it’s arriving quite soon With pale wings to flutter through silvery night And flash in the path of the cool distant moon         A Note […]

Hi, teachers! I’m working on a new project, to be unveiled soon, and I’m going to be sharing bits of it here over the next couple of weeks. Here’s a couplet question. Stay tuned tomorrow for the answering quatrain:>)   What’s inside of this tiny cocoon? This soft, silky, fuzzy, white, paper balloon?     […]