This week, our daughter Hope played Lucia in "A Roman Comedy" at school. The class did a magnificent job, and we are still celebrating! Now that the play has ended, though, the actors' lines will slip away until only hints remain. When I used to act in plays, I was always amazed by how a complete performance would simply disappear bit-by-bit over time. Even so, snippets of each show always remain and sometimes bubble to the surface of my mind.
I am grateful to have a poem about being in a play in HAMSTERS, SHELLS, AND SPELLING BEES, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins.
School Play
A stage
with velvet curtains
is tucked inside my heart
where you can find me
in my costume
practicing my part
every night -
every day.
I will
be ready
for our play.
Amy LV
Students - today's poem is simply an observation, a bit of a wistful one, but just a thought. We all have little thoughts that flicker across our minds, and sometimes it's good to capture one in ink. Brian Andreas draws his Story People with short and very wonderful thoughts.
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"The Play's the Thing" somebody said.
ReplyDelete(Wow, that could be the first line of a metered poem!) Amy, thanks for these thoughts and for the Story People link! I love the work there - wonderful posters for libraries, elementary schools, and other bright and happy places of learning! --Cecilia
Cecilia, That WOULD be a great first line! I thought you would like the Story People...and I owe you a poem. I know nada about the Iditarod, so I need to do a bit of learning! A.
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