April - Poetry Month - 2024, Day Twenty-Seven, Finding Memories

  Happy Poetry Month!

        I'm taking the advice from the poet who has given so much to help us all, including students and teachers, write poetry. I'll be moving from A to Z, obviously needing to combine a few to make it all come out to 30. FYI—Sometimes, Paul Janeczko offers a prompt to write a poem that begins with the specific alphabet letter instead of a poem type. It will be fun to be open to writing in all kinds of ways!

       You can find the path to the Progressive Poem over to the right! Simply click on the graphic!

        As you can see above, the 26 letters of the Alphabet and words that begin with them have been covered. These final days I decided to find a few memories to write about, preparing for summer time!

Day 27—Sometimes, when driving in the countryside, one spots a few flowers and, looking more closely, an old foundation. There can be lilacs, iris, or hydrangeas, daffodils and tulips at different times from spring to summer.

 

attribution: Julian P Guffogg / Countryside
with daffodils near Hill Grove

 

remember

where daffodils grow –

there, stories stay

              Linda Baie ©  

 

April - Poetry Month - 2024, Day Sixteen, Begins with P – Performance

     Happy Poetry Month!

If you'd like the poster, go here!

 

        I'm taking the advice from the poet who has given so much to help us all, including students and teachers, write poetry. I'll be moving from A to Z, obviously needing to combine a few to make it all come out to 30. FYI—Sometimes, Paul Janeczko offers a prompt to write a poem that begins with the specific alphabet letter instead of a poem type. It will be fun to be open to writing in all kinds of ways!

       You can find the path to the Progressive Poem over to the right! Simply click on the graphic!

     This is Day 16, a word that starts with P - I chose "Performance".  Can you imagine?

 Performance of a Showoff 

 

The centipede, without dismay

demands applause in a special way.

Its many legs help it refine

the one-bug musical chorus line.

Linda Baie ©

April - Poetry Month - 2024, Day Thirteen, M - Mothers and Music

      Happy Poetry Month!

If you'd like the poster, go here!

 

        I'm taking the advice from the poet who has given so much to help us all, including students and teachers, write poetry. I'll be moving from A to Z, obviously needing to combine a few to make it all come out to 30. FYI—Sometimes, Paul Janeczko offers a prompt to write a poem that begins with the specific alphabet letter instead of a poem type. It will be fun to be open to writing in all kinds of ways!

       You can find the path to the Progressive Poem over to the right! Simply click on the graphic!

       It was my mother's birthday a few days ago and Mother's Day is in a few weeks. The prompts today, among others, are "mother" and "music".  When I was little, my mother sang the old lullaby, "Too Ra, Loo Ra, Loo Ral" to me and it remains a vivid memory. Then, looking through some old sheet music, a part of one page held these lyrics, seeming serendipitous since I spend my growing up years in Missouri. Thus, the nod to music in two ways and to my mother.

Mama Tunes  

 

Sweet and low,

rock-a-bye,

hush now,

don’t you cry.

 

Toora loora

            lullaby, goodnight.            

Don’t say a word,

I’ll tuck you tight.

 

Hush little baby,

drowsy hours are creeping.

Come lie adrift

in moonbeams streaming.

 

Mother sang

these songs to me.

Still rocking me

in memories.

              Linda Baie ©