Greetings, Poetry Lovers!
Today I'm delighted to share the postcard I received from Silver Star Elementary School in Vancouver, Washington, during National Poetry Month. Media Specialist Extraordinaire and poet Jone Rush MacCulloch has spearheaded this wonderful project for many years. Click over to Check It Out and scroll through all the "Student Poetry" posts! I've treasured the postcards from these young, talented writers.
This year is the first time I've received a one-line poem, and you all know how much I love reading and writing one-line haiku. (They look simple. They are not.)
I love how Jahaziel packed so much into eight words:
Ice day words escape when cold winds blow
Poem ©Jahaziel R.
If you are cozied up at home on a day you're iced in, do words escape from your pen? Your keyboard? Do they find their way into poems? Do words escape from books as you take time to read by a crackling fire, or curled up in bed?
This is the kind of poem that will absolutely return to me each winter. I'm grateful for the gift, and send hearty congratulations to Jahaziel for this fine writing, and appreciations for sharing it. The sparse art in winter-chill colors is just right, too.
May your cold winds shift to warm ones this May, and here's to escaping words!
Enjoy more inspiring words at Friendly Fairy Tales, where Brenda is celebrating spring and rounding up for us this week. Thanks, Brenda!