Exploring Haiku Poems when I taught Writer’s Circle was one of my favorite activities. Some of the Haiku I offer today (the first and last) are examples from those lessons, as I would write alongside my students. The others are those Haiku that were inspired today by my previous writing. Although Haiku is meant to…
18 – A Haiku. Once, you are eighteen Dreams Alive In Front of You Fully breathe it in An Ode to Eighteen. In mid-life, I realize and acknowledge that I have become a lot of things….. a mother a wife a daughter a sister a friend a nurse a teacher a writer a jewelry…
Since it is poetry Friday I started to think about what I was going to write about today. I had children’s poetry books I got out of the library last week and could review one of those. I did really liked “The Free and the Brave: A Collection of poems about the United States” (2004). The…
This morning we cleaned, my son and I. We cleaned out his room and had much to enjoy! Who knew it would be so much fun? We laughed when we saw the dried-up tube of paint, its cap left slightly askew. I jumped when a plastic spider was found in a corner and sent my…
Since my work a week ago when I conducted a mini-lesson on writing Haiku at Wetland Education Days, I have been thinking a lot about writing. One of the most common questions I received from the students was whether their haiku needed to rhyme. Of course not, was my response! Flow trumps rhyme in poetry…
If you read my blog yesterday, you know I’ve been teaching during the last two days. Today, was more of the same – connecting students in grades 4-8 to our local lands through writing Haiku. The theme was wetlands but many wrote about Autumn, tree color, and other such observations that were encouraged in my…
Sometimes you get to explore the road not taken. Initially, you are excited you decided to travel a more unusual path and the opportunity is embraced. But, as you travel you find that the path you were on previously might have been the right road all along. There were fewer potholes and cracks to pull you…
Today is Poetry Friday and since I spent much of my week educating school children about Monarchs and their habitat, I thought I would write a poem about this wonderfully unique creature. Poetry Friday is sponsored by the Teacher Dance Blog this week. Thank you for hosting this wonderful community of writers. Meaningful Monarchs Meaningful…
White Wedding Dress. Table Top Ferns of Green. Comfortable shoes for dancing. Favorite Comfort Foods Served. The first dance – Classic music gathers friends and family, Glenn Miller’s In the Mood affects old and young, alike. Smiles all around. Reusable straws gift us all – present or not. Weddings reflect the bride and groom. Their love…
My son was the Cat – The Cat in the Hat! This shy timid boy, sang and danced the stage for musical theater became his bag. Thing One and Thing Two turned out to be cool, friends of son three who was never a fool. To be in a musical for all to see, springing…