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Friday, January 12, 2024
Poetry Friday: A Winter Poem For Reluctant Poets
Poetry Friday is being hosted this week by Tracey at Tangles & Tails
Today there was no school as there was a snow day. All the snow reminded me of an incident from 14 years ago when I was teaching a unit on poetry to my children when I was homeschooling them. The original post is found here.
Each of my children wrote a poem, but my 8 year old at the time son was originally a little reluctant to write his. Before producing the picture poem below, he recited something like Winter, winter I hate winter.
Later when I had some time to myself. I reflected on the incident and wrote a poem as if it was written by an 8 year old who did not want to write a poem.
It reminds me of something that P.D. Eastman of Go Dog Go, or The Best Nest might write.
Winter. Winter. Winter. Winter.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
National Take a Poet to Lunch Day
January 6, 2024 is Take A Poet to Lunch Day. It was started in 1995 making today the 20th annual celebration of this event created by Professor Arnold Adoff. This link gives some good ideas of how to celebrate poetry on this day. A few years back I found out about this day and wrote a poem to commemorate the occasion,
I Took A Poet to Lunch Today
I took a poet to lunch today
And there amid the verse
Our flow of thought
Was free and light
Not stifled, bland or terse
I took a poet to lunch today
And traded quip for quip
She scrawled a sonnet on her check
And left it with her tip
If you can't take a poet to lunch today
Please don't wear a frown
We all write poems in our own way
And some just write them down.
A few years later I included the poem in a holiday poetry reading on my vlog.
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
A New Years Resolution or A Tolkien Gesture
Today is J..R.R. Tolkien's birthday. I have long been an admirer of his work. It started when I went on a field trip in school to a puppet version of The Hobbit. On the occasion of my first trip to Mackinaw Island, my parents purchased me a set of his Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. It was never actually intended to be a trilogy, it was published in 3 parts due to it's bulk and in case it proved to be a failure.
It of course was not a failure, being one of the best selling and most loved books of all time. I on the other hand have failed many times in my attempts to read or even listen to the entirety of Fellowship of The Rings, the first installment of the work. This is a cause of some embarrassment for me, and also a point of friction between myself and my son, who had read all 3 installments while he was still a tween.
I am actually a much bigger fan of his fellow Inkling C.S. Lewis and generally read all 7 books of Chronicles of Narnia every year. I have decided in honor of Tolkien's birthday that I will attempt yet again to read this magnificent tome. Two years ago I was successful at my attempt to finish Moby Dick, this year I hope to finish LOTR. I will start to read it this Winter and attempt to complete it by the end of Spring. If I still haven't finished it by the beginning of Summer, I will complete the rest by listening to an audio version. I will give myself to September 2nd, which is the day Tolkien died. This years it falls on my eldest daughter's 25th birthday, and thus a easy to remember due date. If all goes well I will repeat the process in 2025 and 2026 for the final 2 installments. I will update my progress here with my installments of Last 5 Next Ten.
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