April - Poetry Month - Day Nineteen - Sonnet

  

       Happy Poetry Month, where poems parade in the streets, run like rivers within our veins or settle in our hearts every.single,time. 

       I am using this older book pictured left that follows the alphabet with one kind of prompt each day. I used this book on occasion in the classroom years ago, but never worked through it day by day, with deliberation! Here goes!

        

       S is for Sonnet, a happy place to be!

 

Poetry Friday - Window Memory

         It's another wonderful spring Poetry Friday, and everyone is gathering at Sloth Reads with Rebecca Herzog who's sharing a wonderful new poetry book and giving a copy away! Thanks, Rebecca!  

            The challenge this month from Michelle Barnes at Today's Little Ditty is given here by Julie Fogliano, to look out one's windows and write from what one sees. Thanks for this latest way to write and share, Michelle.

             I've already written one poem for Julie's challenge, but because I look out windows often, I wanted to write again. Here is a sonnet with additional musings out my window, early morn. I did change the rhyme scheme, FYI. It just seemed to be needed this time. The photo is my view outside one of my windows. 

The Possibilities Quotes - St. Francis of Assisi

            When I wrote about my One Little Word last week, I referred to a wonderful website with 50 beautiful quotes connected to my word, POSSIBILITIES.  I also wrote that it might be fun to research those whose words were highlighted.  The first was St. Francis of Assisi.  I am not an expert, but after reading a child’s book, and then articles from the Catholic church online, I have learned a fair amount.  And Valentine’s Day is coming, a day of love.  If nothing else, I have connected St. Francis, or Giovanni Bernardore, commonly known as Francesco (founder of the Franciscan order) in a love story.  And where else might we tell this love story than in a sonnet?  According to the research I found, the earliest sonnets were written between 1220 and 1250 A.D.  St. Francis of Assisi died in 1226 A.D.

           Here is the quote:  "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - St. Francis of Assisi  from The Heart of Innovation.