Use this button created by Leigh Anne Eck to post your Digital Poetry this month.
Join the roundup with Amy at The Poem Farm.
An invitation: Many bloggers in the kidlitosphere are celebrating National Poetry Month with all sorts of special projects. Jama has a roundup of them here. I invite you to post on Twitter with #digipoetry. What is digipoetry? Well, anything poetry. If you write your poems on a blog, that’s digital. If you use an app, digital. If you post on FB, digital. So anyone is welcome to join. The hashtag came about because of a tweet from Leigh Anne (@Teachr4) who simply asked me and a few other Slice of Life bloggers, “What are your plans for April?” We didn’t want to be any more specific with this invitation. No challenge involved. You don’t even have to write a poem every day. You can post student work, your work, or somebody’s inspiration. All passionate poets welcome.
Thistle bee
I have been playing around with taking video and writing a poem. Yesterday I posted a serious poem. Today, it’s lighter with a little bee dance.
Pollinate
Propagate
Cultivate
Bees buzz in
Carry dust into the wind
So Life goes on…-Margaret Simon
Reflections on the Teche 
There is beauty and life in the smallest things. Thank you for putting it into something we can read and see.
Those musical words for the musical bees! Yesterday at the Carnegie Science Museum we saw an Omnimax movie about things too small, too fast, too slow, too big to see. Your poem has me flashing back to those bee pictures. Just amazing…and yes, “So life goes on….” in so many ways. Happy Poetry Friday, Margaret! xo, a.
A celebrations of the smallest things – delightful! I really enjoyed the images, music, and poem itself.
I love bees! Thanks for featuring one today! That thistle, though. Wow, it’s huge! Does it grow wild?
Diane, thistle is a wild weed. Actually quite ugly and spike, but bees and other bugs love it.
Bee poems are some of my favorite and I love yours!!! And the video is a bonus! I’m pretty sure that’s the same thistle that grows where I grew up near Redstone, Colorado.
Beautiful pictures and words! Your world is so full of life. I think you’re an expert and seeing these marvels.
Beautiful, Margaret. I know thistles are not always welcome, but I do adore the color of their blooms. I guess that the bee is attracted too.
Great play on words with “bees buzz in” — clever, Margaret!
A perfect spring poem, Margaret. I love all those verbs, just as busy as the bees!
I’m fascinated by those of you who can not only write beautiful poems (I love pollinate, propagate, cultivate) but then combine it with beautiful visuals and music. I’d love to know more about your process. This is gorgeous.
This one started with the video. Then I wrote the poem. Made the movie using iMovie on my computer.
Three cheers for the “thistle bees” — the ones who can brave the prickers and spread beauty and life!
I missed this yesterday – I don’t know how! I love what you are doing with the movie/video. Hopefully I will have some time to play with some of these tools before this month is over.
Love this line “bees buzz in.. Carry dust in the wind…” Visual poetry! Wonderful “make” for #npm15
I love how there are so many poetry challenges happening in the kidlitosphere this April! Spring! 🙂 Enjoyed the video clip.