#Poetry Friday - Poems In Celebration

       It's Poetry Friday with a lot of celebrating on its way, all gathering at Life on The Deckle Edge with Robyn Hood Black! Thanks for hosting this special day, Robyn.

April is  #NPM18 - National Poetry Month.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it. - Gustave Flaubert 

            Last Friday, when I shared Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's new book, With My Hands: Poems for Making Things. Amy and Clarion HMH offered to send a copy of this new book to a lucky commenter of that post! Here's the picture of my drawing and the lucky winner! 

          

Congratulations, Buffy Silverman - send me your address and
I'll pass it on!

         Of interest:  See the page on the bar above for the Progressive Poem's schedule of poets, hosted by Irene Latham at Live Your Poem.  

        And, see what many are doing for Poetry Month, by looking HERE at Jama Rattigan's post at Jama's Alphabet Soup.
          

              My goal for Poetry Month: A haiku diary that may include other forms related to haiku, like haibun, haiga. monoku or renga. My first poem speaks of why I am handwriting the poems.

April’s garden,

growing poems 

on lined pages

                    Linda Baie

links:

       Poem one

       Poem two

       Poem three 

       Poem Four

       Poem Five
       Poem Six  

       Poem Seven

       Poem Eight 

       Poem Nine 

       Poem Ten
      Poem Eleven
      Poem Twelve
      
Here is Poem Thirteen:

          Here’s a second poem gift to unwrap, meant for that special person:

Today, We’re all “Traveling The Blue Road”  "World Make Way"

“All The World’s A Stage” Today

                               for Lee Bennett Hopkins

His books are “Jumping Off Library Shelves”

because he now can shout “I Am The Book”!

Over 100 books reveal his mantra:

“Don’t You Turn Back” with “Me! A Book of Poems”.

“Side by Side” with Lee includes loads of “Small Talk” with“Best Friends”,

Happily, we all discover his “Wonderful Words” in “Days to Celebrate”,

“Sing Hey for Christmas Day”, “Good Morning To You, Valentine”,

“Beat The Drum, Independence Day Has Come”, “Hannukah Lights” and

“Ragged Shadows: Poems of Halloween Night.”

As we celebrate, there are no worries either about being fed well

with “Potato Chips and A Slice of the Moon”--Yum!

We are often “Munching” on “Pterodactyls and Pizza” 

as we sing a “Lullaby and Kisses Sweet” song together

while learning about “America at War”, “Nasty Bugs”, 

“Pups, Dogs, Foxes, and Wolves”, plus so many “People From Mother Goose”.

I could continue with more "Faces and Places", even with some "City Talk"

but will stop and say "Time to Shout: [with] Poems for you".

From “Home to Me” to Lee,

Happy Birthday!

                                    Linda Baie