the cheeriest blooms
bring the sun
out of hiding
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Tag Archives: Poetry Friday
Peony Petals
sun-filled petals,
scalloped and scented,
soft as new baby’s skin
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Firecracker Red
firecracker red roses
bring back sangria-sweetened
hot afternoons
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Girls Gather
girls gather
on swings, flying high
laughter on the wind
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Summer Poem Swap
June Song
–by Irene Latham
Let me be sun
kissing horizon each morning
warming lake
to bathwater. Continue reading
A Book by the Brook — Things To Do
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
Don’t read this new book unless you like imagining being things you’re not, like birds, honeybees, acorns and snails. If you do like the idea of rousing roosters like the dawn, dazzling the night like the moon or polka-dotting sidewalks like rain, then you will love Things to Do, by Elaine Magliaro, illustrated by Catia Chien, Chronicle Books, 2016. Continue reading
Daffodil Runes
a grove of daffodils
circled by bees,
runes of springtime
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Lion Around
lion around
in lilac-scented sunshine,
a yellow mellow
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Spring Blue
the first bumblebee
an envoy from under stone,
sun salutation
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#PoetryFriday — Starry, Starry Spring
Words Keep Me
implacable rain
drenches skin, soil and stem but
my words keep me dry
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A Book by the Brook — Don’t Ask a Dinosaur
Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
— William Shakespeare
This light romp from Deborah Bruss and Matt Forest Esenwine has loads of laughs as dinos try wrapping presents and baking cakes in Don’t Ask a Dinosaur. The text has loads of those tough dino names, all with dots to separate the syllables into pronounceable snack-sizes. And it scans smoothly and rhymes! I know, I couldn’t believe it either. Plus, Louie Chin did a wonderful job bringing the dinos to vivid but not-too-scary life. Continue reading
Friendly Fairy Tales 