Happy Poetry Month!
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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!
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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 ©
