Thank you again to Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect for her weekly poetry stretch. This week's challenge encourages us to write about sayings. You can read the poems as they're posted here at her blog.
While we're on the topic of idioms, sayings, and expressions, I am excited to share a new book with you which includes a whole chapter on this very topic. Ralph Fletcher, writer of picture books, novels, poetry, and writing books for students and teachers, has done it again. His latest book, PYROTECHNICS ON THE PAGE: PLAYFUL CRAFT THAT SPARKS WRITING, celebrates and encourages joyful romping through and exploration of language.
Tomorrow is Poetry Friday and the final day of "Free Verse Week" here at The Poem Farm.
* "Originally a person or thing stuffed to the point of choking was choke-full. In modern speech this expression has become chock-full,
or in less formal American English, chuck-full." (from Paul Brians' book, COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH USAGE)
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