Ready to Make Friends with Poetry? ⟶
And resources to get you started April is National Poetry Month… and if you are on the fence about adding poetry to your homeschool rhythms I am here as your Poetry Evangelist with Nine Reasons (points? facets? features?) to encourage you to make friends with poetry. It is no secret in my conversations with Home…
Pressed into Joy Golden oil in rounded vessel liquid lightrefracting sun in shimmers. Mirrored shape reflects on glassy surface and I wonder at thedrop, drop, drops of light as theydrip, drip, dripdown. All this tastingjoyfulness becausesomething was crushedand pressed,leaving light. True Wood Pears thunk and plop on barren, yellow grass alone, not-gathered. The tree bore fruit but there…
There’s more than one way to write a poem. Folks often feel intimidated about how to write poetry—I get it; I’ve been there. But Art journaling offers a way to venture into expressing oneself with words and pictures both and thus create a poem, a made thing, (the definition of poem from the Greek word poiema)….
The first poems I ever saved are from Mrs. Appy’s Ninth grade English class in a folder labeled simply ‘Poetry.’ 50 years later I can’t for the life of me locate it but I can see its contents–the ditto ink is faded but still quite legible. There are selections by Richard Brautigan and e.e.cummings, of course,…
To hear me read this poem, click HERE. I am the map, I will show you the way Landmarks, sideroads, the places you’ll stay. Then moving slowly, aware of the limits of speed that are posted; this journey-stay in it. I’ll reveal the direction, post signs that you need Aware of your…
Frequency There was always a tune in the heart of God A song that He sang over us. The melody came with a note from above A chorus from the Father of love. But the tune met resistance-titanium, stone Even water that blocked all the notes. Was everyone drowning, message nullified, absorbed? Perhaps the enchantment…