And so today's poem is from a new children's book of poetry by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Forest Has a Song. You can find it here: http://www.amylv.com/p/forest-has-song.html. It is a fabulous collection of poetry, especially to use with kids. Her poem, invitation, reminds me of one of my all time favorite poems, A New Day.
InvitationToday
I heard
a pinecone fall.
I smell
a spicy breeze.
I see
Forest
wildly waving
rows of
friendly trees.I’m here.
Come visit.
Please?–Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, all rights reserved
by TomasenA New Day
silencestillness
the world's eyes opening
squinting
stretching before
my
eyes
the sacred yawn of morn
brings a solitude
of newness
hope, renewal and life
the woods
my magical forest
with twinkling eyes
winking
surrounding me
as we usher in the
day as
one
Funny how reading someone else's poetry can bring you back to your own. And now I am off to my magical forest to take Ruby Roo for her daily walk. I wonder what I might see today!!
1 comment:
I like your poem and the reflecting-ness feel of how you love your walks in the woods and your time for being alone to think and imagine and dream. Did you see Laura Purdie Salas's blog yesterday with her video reading one of Amy LV's poems from Forest Has a Song? I hope you got a chance to see Amy on TV in Buffalo with her red boots. I think she is a new style icon. If you have not been to the National Poetry Month listing of fantastic activities at the Kidlitosphere, Jama's alphabet soup blog has a big listing of the varies exceptional ideas. Mary Lee Hahn is using Wikimedia commons images and showing her writing process, Laura Shovan at Author Amok has technoverse which is very interesting, My Juicy Universe has commenters offering one word for a progressive poem called 30d30w as in 30 days, 30 words. A spare poem for sure. And then the Progressive Poem at Irene Latham's blog. If you haven't read the one that was created for 2012 it is really quite beautiful. Also Susan Taylor Brown has a different poem as a model each day and 4th grade teacher Melinda Harvey as Thinking in Rhyme where she is doing found poems.
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