April - Poetry Month - 2024, Day Twenty-Five, Y is for Yearning

 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!

April - Poetry Month - Day 29 - Lilacs

 

 
         Remember to check out the list of what everyone is doing at Susan Bruck's blog: Soul Blossom Living!
         
          Plus! Check each day for the added line to the Progressive Poem, created by Irene Latham, now hosted by Margaret Simon! The link is to the right!  

           TIME TO CELEBRATE POETRY! 

My Plan: “I’m exploring the aesthetic of wabi-sabi, sometimes described as one that is “imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete” in nature. I think walking out in nature this past year gave me the joy needed to keep going, so I’ve gathered photos taken since March 2020 for inspiration in composing haigas, sometimes other forms.” 

Celebrations Everywhere - Really!

         Every Saturday (or Sunday) I celebrate with Ruth Ayres at Discover Play Build.  and link with others who share their celebrations, too. It's always lovely to read everyone's posts. I am grateful to Ruth each week for her thoughtful creation of this community.

           A good week to me feels like a week with family and friends, time to read and time to write. It was a good week! I'm always writing poems, but have paid special attention recently to a picture book story in poetry. I had time during the week to "really" work on it, and I celebrate that. Also, I had the last meetings with the teacher with whom I've worked all year, a final lesson and conversation, and a celebration with all the "new" teachers hosted by the school that manages the licensing program. I am so proud of the teacher he has become, and wish him much success and happiness in his teaching. He has a job already!
             Last week I celebrated all the "mothers" in my life, including those special grandmothers. And this week, lilac blooms spread over our city. I saw, and smelled, them everywhere. I wrote this for David L. Harrison's website which has a Word of the Month to write to. The poems are shared in comments on a specific link on his blog. If you'd like to join, please take a look. He also has a link for students to share poems from the Word of the Month. This month's word is May, and the variety of kinds of poems already shared is marvelous. I like some of the poems that I write, and love others, maybe not that they're perfect, but some "please" more than others. Here's a poem I celebrate, because it's about grandmothers and lilacs, two of my favorite things.