It's April. It's Poetry Month!
Remember to check out the list of what everyone is doing at Jama Rattigan's blog: Jama's Alphabet Soup.
And check on the Water Poem Project where every day, a poet is sharing a prompt connected to water, hosted and created by Laura Shovan! My own prompt is there today! Thanks for letting me join in, Laura!
Plus! Check each day for the added line to the Progressive Poem, created by Irene Latham, now hosted by Margaret Simon! The link is above and the graphic to the right!
A leap with the theme of CIRCLES for poetry month, poems & small sketches. I am looking forward to reading everyone's posts. I'm sure I will love each one, knowing they're done during a time we've not lived before. I am worried about so many, those close and those far, my community, too.Best wishes for continuing good health to you all!
April 1 - haiku
April 2 - cinquain
April 3 - a couplet
April 4 - limerick
This is not a complaint about teachers. I was a teacher and cannot imagine how hard their lives are right now, working hard for good content, to connect through a screen! The students are trying hard, too, but it is different at home and I thought perhaps a child, though loving his or her teacher, might have discovered something else that's more interesting. Missing his or her teacher, missing the class, but a new life at home means new things for a student's attention, thus my poem.
Also, the poem is longer and I felt I had to print it this time. If you can't read it, it's also below the photo.
April 5 - a kyrielle
I watch the teacher on the screen
who shares some ways of being green.
Perhaps in time, I’ll let her know
this path is not the way I’d go.
I love her smile and miss her hugs
but here at home, I have to shrug
because of other things to know.
This path is not the way I’d go
My TV tells of monkeys wild
playing like the littlest child
from treetops spying down below.
This path is not the way I’d go.
I’d travel south where howlers thrive.
I want to see how they survive.
I want to be part of that show.
This path is not the way I’d go.