Chalking With Betsy-Goodbye June!

      Come join Betsy at Teaching Young Writers for her end-of-the-month Chalkabration!  Just chalk a poem, outside, inside, or use a chalkboard app as I have to share your poem.  Hope to see many of you visit Betsy!


Here's mine, via the app, Chalkboard!

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Chalking Into Spring

        It's the end of the month, and time for CHALK-A-BRATION, and it's POETRY FRIDAY, all hosted by Betsy at Teaching Young Writers.  Thanks Betsy!

        Again, I used an app on my IPad to draw my "chalk poem".  Spring is finally arriving in Denver, although the mountains have had snow again!  It's our latest spring flowering in a long time, at least that I remember.  I have finally planted some annuals!  I think we're past the possible freezing nights!

  

Still Summer...

         
Two Writing Teachers hosts a Slice of Life each Tuesday.  Please join Stacey and Ruth and the community for a wonderful time reading everyone's slices.  


        I am living my slice this week because my grandson is here visiting.  I'll share about our time and adventures together next week, but for now, it's the end of the month and time for Chalk-a-bration!  
        Betsy, at Teaching Young Writers, (whom I met during the Tuesday slices) has begun a tradition of what she calls a Chalk-a-Bration where poets write poems and chalk them for others to see.  Check out what everyone does today for this celebration.  August arrives tomorrow and with it our last summer days of some relaxing, some preparing, some "oh mys, where did the summer go?"  Here is my poem in tribute to still summer...  Thank you Betsy for your idea and for continuing it!

June Chalk-A-Bration!

         Over at the Teaching Young Writers blog, Betsy and her husband Shawn, who blogs at Beyond Innisfree have shown that there is much out there I haven't experienced (well, today is number three), and one of those things is to write a poem on the sidewalk, or patio, etc., anywhere you feel is a great place to show off your words. Betsy has named this Chalk-a-bration, which began in April during poetry month.  Please visit Betsy's blog to share the link for your own chalk story.  Thanks for hosting Betsy!


         We wrote about summer much of the month of May, waiting, waiting for school to be completed, so we could welcome the season of doing less, getting some R&R, reading the books we wanted, writing the words we wanted.  It was a lovely time of anticipation!  Now that summer is here, some of that has occurred, but here in Colorado, one thing more--fire!  Hence my poem, that began as celebration, but ended still another way.  

                                                  It's a little faded, so here is the text!

Summer comes-

blanket heat.

We smile and relax,

with shorts and halter tops.

We grow flowers

and jump into sprinklers.

Bodies shiver.

But the heat also brings

fire that we relish in

snow time,

not the hot and dry kind-

July.

We want the crackle

only in the fireplace.

Not in the neighborhoods.

Our bodies shiver.

Chalk-A-Bration! Welcome summer!

           Betsy at Teaching Young Writers is holding a Chalk-A-Bration, poem on the sidewalks of the world!  Come celebrate with us with your own poem to welcome the end of May, and for many of us, time for a summer break.  I'm not quite finished yet, but soon!  Thanks for doing this Betsy, such a fun thing, although my fingers are a little sore.

All Things Reading!

      

It’s been quite a month.  I am connecting in several places today as I say goodbye to April, poetry month. 

       You can find me over at the Nerdy Book Club talking about all the bookshelves I have in my house (somewhat embarrassing), which really only means I own a lot of books .

       I am connecting to Betsy’s blog, Teaching Young Writers in order to share the chalk poem that I wrote and chalked last week, of much interest to all the young skateboarders who practice at the end of my street, a cul de sac. Here is my poem:

       And I will link this post to It’s Monday, What Are You Reading, to Kellee and Jen’s blog, Teach Mentor Texts which I try to do every Monday.