TeacherDance: #SOL17

Thursday, March 16, 2017

#SOL17 - Seventeen of Thirty-One And Poetry Friday

Number seventeen of thirty-one, over halfway through the month of the Two Writing Teachers March Challenge.

And today, celebrate St. Patrick's Day and Poetry Friday with Robyn Hood Black at her blog, Life On The Deckle Edge! She's brought a bit of the green in her poetry for us! Thanks, Robyn!

I think this might be the final time for my "snowy" Poetry Friday button. I know that many of you have had too much snow to find a shamrock, but here in Colorado, except in the mountains, it's over 70 degrees and I've had to begin watering. I'm not bragging. We really could use a lot of that snow!

Read this quote carefully. I believe it holds some hope for us in this chaotic political year:

"In Ireland, the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
Sir John Pentland Mahaffy.

taken by Linda Baie

I wrote about crows and an old picture book about them last week, then starting searching for other pieces about them. I even tried to connect this somehow to St. Patrick's Day, but I discovered that Ireland's bird is the gyrfalcon, NOT a crow. Here is a poem I wrote a few years ago sitting at our old home with my husband, looking out. Our home backed onto a park, and we were blessed with many birds, among them, crows.

Sharing Breakfast

A pair of crows-

visitors each morning-

startle when we open the door,

fly away in tandem,

a steadfast couple.

They soon return to gather

the breakfast peanuts

and settle at the birdbath.

Each holds a peanut,

dipping, cracking.

During the munching, their

husky calls reach our own breakfast table.