Here's the Poetry Friday Roundup to Celebrate Poetry Friday Eve!

Dreaming of Poems

by Amy LV

Students - One hundred thousand welcomes, and happy almost National Poetry Month!  I feel lucky to host this Poetry Friday roundup, celebrating the last day of March and the threshold of National Poetry Month.  Many many warm springy and wordy wishes to the good, wise, kind friends that I have made here in this space.

Earlier this week, for The Poem Farm's 7th birthday, I announced this year's Poem Farm Poetry Month project.  

You can read about Writing the Rainbow HERE.  

If you missed it, please know that one commenter on that March 29 post (comment by April 12) will receive 10 copies of FOREST HAS A SONG to donate to children in special need of books. 

Congratulations to Linda Mitchell for winning the copy of Joyce Sidman's BEFORE MORNING from last week's Friday post. Linda, please drop me an e-mail to amy at amylv dot com, and I will get your beautiful book out to you. Thank you again to second grade teacher Mary Anne Sacco and her poets for their wondrous snow day poems.  Your copy of BEFORE MORNING will be in the mail this week as well!

And now, onto the roundup!  For any new visitors, Poetry Friday is a weekly tradition here in the kidlitosphere.  People of all kinds of poetry-loving stripes share Friday poem posts, visit each others' blogs, and learn about new poems and poets and books and ideas.  We welcome all people at all times.  Come on in...stay awhile. 

Click below to discover this week's collection of poetry paths to follow.  And if you have a blog with a bit of poetry to share, please link in with us.

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I look forward to learning about all of the different poetry projects and celebrations happening throughout the month and encourage you to visit Jama at Jama's Alphabet Soup where, in addition to regular gorgeous blog posts, Jama rounds up Poetry Month projects each year.

See you tomorrow with my crayon pick #1!

xo,

Amy

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Come One! Come All! Poetry Friday is Here!

Welcome to this Week's

Party!

I am so glad you are here.  If you are new to Poetry Friday, you can learn more about it at Renée's place, No Water River.  In short, Poetry Friday is a big ol' weekly poetry party, and all are invited.  Welcome.  

Finding Murray

Photo by Amy LV

Students - Did you ever notice how something bad happening can help you see something good that was there the whole time?  I have noticed this, and yesterday, after seeing many signs for a LOST DOG, that very noticing and feeling crept into the ink of my pen, into the ink of my veins.

I started writing today's poem with the lines, "The good thing/about a bad thing..." and then just followed the words.  I did not plan at all to include the dog in the poem, did not plan at all to break the meter and rhythm of the poem at the end. But then...

• The dog showed up.
• The meter and rhythm broke at the end.
• I liked both of these surprises.

I believe it can be helpful to begin a piece of writing with a plan.  But I also believe it can be just as helpful to let the plan go, let the dog in, listen the broken meter and see how it matches the meter of your heart.

Why a broken meter?  Well, would you be counting meter if your lost dog just came home?  Me neither!

Find home, Murray...find home...

We have a winner of Cynthia Grady's beautiful book I LAY MY STITCHES DOWN: POEMS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks.  If you left a comment, it could be you!  Very shortly I'll have a new post over there, and I always welcome new notebookers to share in that space...please just let me know if you are be interested.

Below you will find links to all kinds of Poetry Friday goodness happening around the Kidlitosphere.  If you'd like to link in, I thank you!  And to all...may the posts you visit and read fill your hearts with joy and your pockets with laughter.

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