Poetry Friday round-up is Down Under with Kat.
I didn’t have any ideas about what I would write today. As I read other Poetry Friday posts, I became more inspired. Matt Forrest Esenwine celebrates the acceptance of a poem for an anthology honoring poet Donald Hall. Matt’s post included an image of a snowy road. The image led me down a path to a new poem.
Too many things concern me today.
My attention is crowded
with walls blocking out human sighs.
On my screen I click on an image
of a path
along a snowy road
a mountain in the distance
and find a poem.
I kick those hard stones.
Look up to the blue mountain.
My thoughts are
insignificant,
unspoken as a meadow.–Margaret Simon, 2019
Someone on Poetry Friday suggested the book Getting the Knack by Stephen Dunning and William Stafford. I’m trying some of the poetry exercises with my students. This week we tried out the recipe poem.
Recipe for a Poem
One blank page–open, lined, waiting…
A colorful pen. Try a different color each day.
Tip-tap your fingers over the lines making multiple dots.
Dots become letters become words.
Top off with a tasty metaphor–
Marshmallow clouds on a snowy day.
Read out loud.
–Margaret Simon, 2019
One Little Word 2019
Reflections on the Teche 