Grreeeen Greetings, Poetry Lovers!
Welcome to All. So glad you are joining us for the Poetry Friday Roundup.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
For those of you in the US who can't see anything but white outside, sending warmest wishes from the South. Somewhere under all that snow must be a four-leaf clover bud.
Here's a perfect poem for today from
The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations from
Pomelo Books. (You know - the volume Kirkus called "A bubbly and educational bilingual poetry anthology for children.")
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
by Esther Hershenhorn
March 17
the world turns green
to celebrate St. Patrick.
Green hats!
Green floats!
Green rivers, too!
March 17's green magic.--and in Spanish:
DIA DE SAN PATRICIO
basado en "St. Patrick's Day"
por Esther HershenhornEl 17 de marzo
el mundo se vuelve verde
para celebrar a San Patricio.
¡Sombreros verdes!
¡Carrozas verdes!
¡Ríos verdes también!
El 17 de marzo es magia verde.©Esther Hershenhorn. All rights reserved.Many thanks to Esther for sharing her poem here today! A couple of years ago, she blogged about creating this poem over at
Teaching Authors - It's always fun to check out the story behind a poem.
I'm sure the river, hats, floats, and fountains an hour south of here in Savannah are green, green, green. And my hubby (and our daughter's hubby) could wear those "Kiss Me, I'm Irish" buttons after our
DNA kit adventures over the holidays. ;0)
Whether you are ancestrally Irish (is that even a word?) or honorarily so today, I wish you pot-fuls of good luck and golden poems. Please leave your links & short post descriptions in the comments, and I'll round up old-school-style as the day goes on.
(Note - I'll be on the road Saturday and unable to add to my list after Friday eve, but make yourself at home all weekend!) BUT WAIT, There's More...Speaking of Pomelo Books, my ancient office kitty, May, (okay, with help from the partially-Irish husband) helped randomly draw winners of the five copies of
HERE WE GO - A Poetry Friday Power Book, generously donated by Janet Wong and Sylvia Vardell! Those lucky ducks are: Charles W., Tabatha Y., Mary Lee H., Linda M., and Shaggers! (Shaggerspicchu - send me your address so you can use this with your class! :0) ) Please email me at robyn@robynhoodblack.com with the address where you'd like me to send your book, and I'll get the leprechauns right on it.
SláinteThe Roundup:
Steven Withrow starts us off at
Crackles of Speech with a poem celebrating the American Woodcock, gracing Cape Cod this winter and looking for love. (Ever the over-achiever, Steven has memorialized the little fellow in a Shakespearean sonnet!)
At
A Teaching Life, Tara is eyeing spring with a gorgeous Jane Kenyon poem, and her own gorgeous thoughts about her farm.
Basketball fan? Okay, poetry fan? Linda shares a slew of poetic slam-dunks in honor of March Madness over at
A Word Edgewise.
At
Jama’s Alphabet Soup, you’ll find a new poem by one of MY favorite poets, Penny Harter. Take a tissue, as it will pull on your heartstrings, and enjoy the warmth with which Jama serves it up.
Oh, you might never think of a toothpick in quite the same way again. I see poems popping up in response to Helen Frost’s “ode” challenge on Michelle’s Today’s Little Ditty, and Kat has one that will stick with you at
Kats Whiskers.
In another post dealing with loss and grief, Brenda at
Friendly Fairy Tales offers a simple, child-friendly and personal poem, “Sister Blue.” (Congrats to Brenda on its inclusion in an anthology!)
Here’s another ode in the TLD challenge: At
Beyond Literacy Link, Carol offers up “Ode to Summer Sand,” which is definitely making me miss our beach here, closed since Hurricane Matthew hit last October. Sigh. (On the other end of the seasonal spectrum, Carol is working on her soon-to-be-unveiled Winter Gallery, too!)
I dare you to meander through St. Patrick’s Day without a smile if you pop in to enjoy Diane’s fetching haiga at
Random Noodling. I dare you.
And we can’t have a Poetry Friday on St. Paddy’s Day without a sip of Yeats now, can we?
Kurious Kitty’s got us covered with a delightful, woodsy cup.
At
Teaching Authors, JoAnn has bagged a lovely way to fuel creativity AND help the planet while kicking off a new series on creativity. What’s your “one little thing”?
Need a walk on the beach, maybe after reading Carol’s poem? You know our wonderful
Sally Murphy is always ready to share her encounters with seaside critters great and small. Her poetic crabby exchange will leave YOU anything but.
What would St. Paddy’s Day be without a limerick or two or ten?
Alice Nine brings us blessings and limericks and lovely links to all things Lear. Enjoy!
Oh, Alice’s post has you thirsty for more? At Michelle’s
Today’s Little Ditty, Carrie Clickard leads us up and down the hills of Limerick Land, with more amazing scribers of the form than you can shake a walking stick at. There’s even a mathematical equation that’s a limerick. Really. (And enjoy a Celtic tune by The High Kings on your way out.)
Linda has a gorgeous original crow poem at
Teacher Dance, and I was struck by how this and Penny Harter’s poem at Jama’s today complement each other.
Michelle Kogan shares a plate-ful today: an original poem about the climate/current political climate, news of a new zine,
Voices, words & art available through her Etsy shop, and an eerily timely poem by Adrienne Rich.
Our resident
RainCity Librarian, Jane, celebrates the holiday and her Irish heritage with a beautiful photo and a glorious, bittersweet poem by Yeats. Sigh.
At
Reading to the Core, Catherine shares lovely poetic images of the birds outside her kitchen window during the blizzard this week. Planes might have been grounded, but not these birds!
Greg at
Gottabook is offering up a sneek peek at Spring Fever with a re-post of his fun poem, “Allergic to Homework.” Gesundheit.
Thank you, Fats, at
Gathering Books, for a touching post pausing to honor the passing of Amy Krouse Rosenthal with a Mary Oliver poem, “Love Sorrow.”
At
The Opposite of Indifference, Tabatha shares an amazing “Literary Scavenger Hunt” poem gifted to her by her ever-clever, talented daughter, Ariana. You’ll just have to read for yourself!
On a related vein, enjoy this delightful book spine poem from Ramona at
Pleasures from the Page.
And more about St. Patrick’s Day, Irish roots, and sorrow, too – but with the winged hope and solace that flows from
Irene’s masterful pen. Her poem is simply titled, “This Poem is Green.”
Margaret brings us a new poetic form based on fractals over at
Reflections on the Teche. She got to meet an old SCBWI Southern Breeze buddy of mine (when Mississippi was in our region!), author Sarah Campbell, who has a new book on the subject. If you are a teacher, you MUST check out these terrific poems by Margaret’s students!
Raise a cupful of moonbeams to Laurie Purdie Salas, whose brand new book, IF YOU WERE THE MOON, launches today! She shares the poem that started it all at
Writing the World for Kids. Awrrroooooo!
And now refill your glass – with flashlight beams this time, we’ll wait… - and offer up another toast, because
Matt Forrest has an awesome cover reveal and release date for his upcoming debut picture book,
Flashlight Night!
All this celebrating means we must dance. Yes, you. Join Heidi at
My Juicy Little Universe for some clever “Linguistic Jig”-ging complete with a rollicking Irish reel to get your feet & fingers tapping.
Oh my – see if you relate to snow-bound Donna’s post at
Mainely Write today; how DO you keep those brilliant writing ideas from flitting away with the fairies? (She made a found poem out of her own post, too, which has a wee bit o'green jealousy in it.)
Join Jone at
Check It Out for a feast of odes by students, answering the aforementioned TLD challenge. One second grader even wrote and Ode to Poetry! Rock on, young poets.
What else would you expect from a delightful poet whose name is an irresistible Spring color?
Violet has a colorful, rhythmic “Note to Spring” so enticing, I bet Spring will arrive a day or two early in her back yard.
At
bildungsroman, Little Willow shares the lovely opening lines of “Last Night” by Théophile Julius Henry Marzials.
Shhh! Don’t wake the precious sleeping grandabies at
Dori Reads. But gentle open the door, and enjoy an Irish lullaby…. She even has The Irish Tenors! (And a link to two of her poems in an online literary journal.)
Echoing some other posts today, Ruth at
There is No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town has a few lines on the theme of sorrow, from Mary Oliver.
Kay invites us to slow down in this season of Lent, with lovely reflections in poetry and photographs at
A Journey Through the Pages.Jone is back with a magical “Library Time” cinquain at
Deowriter - Enjoy!
Katie at
The Logonauts has an “I Read” poem which definitely rings true for me… see if it does for you, too!
Rounding out the day’s selections is Leigh Ann at
A Day in the Life, appropriately calling our attention to the small miracles all around us with a Walt Whitman poem.
Wait - 2 more! Visit Amy at The Poem Farm at http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2017/03/thinkinglook-at-some-old-photos-or.html?m=1 and Joy at poetryforkidsjoy.blogspot.com - :0)
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