Starting Again in Poetry
A blog about children's writing and connecting with poets again.
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Writer’s Digest, Poem-a-Day, Day 2. The prompt was to look around and pick something to write about that you see. This poem might fit better into a formal format, and perhaps I will try that. But the fun of poem-a-day is to write off the cuff, creating a draft of a moment in time. FROM…
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I imagined falling into poetry month like falling into a soft marshmallow bed of comfort and delight. Wrong. I seem to have anticipated so much that I stifled creativity. The first prompt of the month is from a tale of two cities, It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And…
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The banging and hammering are beginning to get to me. Although I am thrilled that the construction is underway, the noise can sometimes be overwhelming. Today my mind is as gray as the fog outside my window. It is hard to get things done as I wade through its thickness. CONSTRUCTION Hammering, sawing, the song…
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I love April. I love seeing poets come out with new challenges, new poems and my favorite, the Writer’s Digest Poem a Day Challenge. I look forward to waking up each morning to a prompt, and writing a poem before I do anything else. It feels successful, a great way to start a day with…
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It’s poetry Friday, and I hope to get back into the writer’s world by attending these poetry events again. I loved being with writers who talk about poetry. Sharing these tiny moments of emotion and contemplation make me think about how I feel on these subjects, and allows me to think deeper as I look…
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Sometimes it’s hard to get into your writer’s head. With so much going on in politics every day, the emotions run wild. How can we capture our emotions from their whirlwind of shock and awe and bring them down to the quiet moments of poetry? When our writer’s group gets bogged down, whether in bigger…
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Bioluminescent Jellification Jellyfish illuminate the night sea with fluorescent constellations. Do they conspire to create elaborate water dragons, that undulate and skate beneath the waves or are their tentacles just waving goodbye, extraterrestrials on their journey home.
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It’s time for me to connect with children’s writing again, and specifically poetry. I thought I’d start this blog to share my own writing, and to find writers who love poetry as much as I do. As we are just around the corner to April, Poetry Month, I thought this was the perfect way to…
Starting Again in Poetry 