Wild Dried Poppy (Maraca) Pods for Irene
Photo by Amy LV
Welcome to today's celebration! I offer my poem from SHARING THE SEASONS, edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins and illustrated by David Diaz.
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Students - Today is a special day! My friend, poet and author Irene Latham, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her blog! Here in the world of blogging, people call that a blogiversary. Isn't that a funny thing about writing...how we can make up our own words?
blog + anniversary = blogiversary
Well, when a good friend is celebrating, she will often invite friends to join her, and this is what Irene has done today. Over at her blog, Live Your Poem, you can find all kinds of posts celebrating the world WILD, Irene's favorite one little word for this year. I suggest visiting her place today, checking out her poems, and wishing her a Happy blogiversary!
Remember this...when you wish to celebrate something, you can do so with writing. You can celebrate your own milestones with writing, and you can celebrate others with your writing too. Words are gifts.
Something true about poetry is also true in my poem above. Poetry sometimes seems sweet and calm...but often, there is much wildness underneath. A writer must be willing to explore wild places within her or himself to find the poems and stories and ideas that he or she is meant to write. Irene is one writer I admire, one who could not be kinder or more genuine...and one who is truly willing to explore the wild questions and glories she finds out and inside of her.
To celebrate today, I offer a copy of SHARING THE SEASONS, by Lee Bennett Hopkins and illustrated by David Diaz, the book in which you can find the poem above, to a commenter on this post. Please comment by this Friday, November 13, to be entered into this drawing.
Thank you, Irene, for being an inspirer. Happy 10th blogiversary to you, my friend!
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