poetry friday

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• Are You Suffering From Paraskevidekatriaphobia?

  
  Authspot — Authority: 513
  Haiku Good Luck or Bad luck Superstitious Holiday An unlucky day Image via Wikipedia  
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• Poetry Friday - gripes

  
  This Is So Gay — Authority: 119
  gripes; or, by their fruits shall ye know them Because you dangle just beyond my reach I try the harder to deserve you, darling. Thered be no need to promise or beseech like this were I an ant or fly or starling. How tantalizing is your distance! Grind my teeth and tear my hair out though I may, I know if you fell ...
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• Poetry Friday- A book

  
  Mrs. F-B's Book Blog — Authority: 128
  The Book Fair is opening on Monday!! Time for you to dig under the couch cushions an beneath the car seats to see what spare change you can come up with! there will be lots of great titles available for everyone. A Book There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of ...
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• Poetry Friday: Spell by Marié Digby

  
  Bildungsroman — Authority: 517
  Spotlight shining brightly on my face I cant see a thing, and yet I feel you, walking my way An empty stage With nothing but this girl Whos singing this simple melody And wearing her heart on her sleeve And right now I have you For a moment I can tell Ive got you Cause your lips dont move And something is happening ...
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• Poetry Friday

  
  Karen Edmisten — Authority: 512
  You dont really need me for Poetry Friday when you can just head over to The Writers Almanac for poetry every day. Im snatching todays selection from there. I like it because it reminds me of my own grandfather. Jim. He, too, wore leather slippers and he, too, was meticulous in many ways. I like the quiet smile of ...
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• friday feast: savoring ching yeung russells tofu quilt

  
  jama rattigan's alphabet soup — Authority: 510
              Imagine a warm bowl of steamed custard so incredibly delicious, it inspires a young girl to become a writer. This is exactly what happens to Yeung Ying in  Tofu Quilt , a beautiful collection of free verse poems based on author Ching Yeung Russells own childhood in 1960s Hong Kong. The ...
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• Poetry Friday: God Says Yes to Me

  
  Read Write Believe — Authority: 461
  Linda Urba n sent me the link to todays poem, which Id read before and loved and yet had never featured on Poetry Friday. The poem is sweet salve because I feel as if Ive been revising my WIP since the dawn of time. When you spend hours on end critically ripping apart your writing, staring at each word and asking it ...
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• Poetry Friday

  
  Sarah Miller: Reading, Writing, Musing... — Authority: 125
  God Got in a Boat And said "Wow." Hed never actually floated in a boat, though Hed seen people out on the water and told Himself Hed have to try that someday. Water had always bored Him until He started seeing people having fun on it. So one day He got in a boat, said Wow, and headed out across the ...
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• Poetry Friday: Shoal of Sharks (Richard OConnell) and Bear Attack (me)

  
  laurasalas — Authority: 546
  OK, I have poems about scary things on my mind this week. I just finished reading The Grizzly Maze: Timothy Treadwells Fatal Obsession with Alaskan Bears (excellent book, by the way) and Im also working on a lesson plan about fear and hope and poetry for a Young Authors Conference. I grew up in Florida, and ...
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• Poetry Friday: Ocean’s Child

  
  Picture Book of the Day — Authority: 465
  In Ocean’s Child by Christine Ford and Trish Holland (Authors) and David Diaz (Illustrator), the children of the ocean go to sleep. Safe and snug in his leafy bed, Baby Otter is rocked to sleep. To Ocean’s child, we say good night. Good might, little otter, good night. Voice Mini-lesson ...
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• Poetry: Keepsake Mill - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

  
  TransylvanianDutch — Authority: 471
  Born on November 13, 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson would be 159 years old today. Perhaps known best for his novels Treasure Island, Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde , he also wrote poetry, including A Childs Garden of Verses (1885), from which the below poem comes. Keepsake Mill OVER the ...
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• Poetry Friday -- Veterans Day Coincidence

  
  A Year of Reading — Authority: 513
  Tricias Poetry Stretch this week at The Miss Rumphius Effect was to write a rictameter, which is an unrhymed nine line poetry form with a syllable count of 2,4,6,8,10,8,6,4,2 and the first and last lines the same. Heres my rictameter, and then Ill tell you the rest of the story behind it: Two books, both ...
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• Poetry Thursday and Friday:Rhyming with Mac Barnett and Adam Rex

  
  Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast — Authority: 463
  “Who’s furry, scurries, and has fleas? Who climbs our counters and eats our cheese? We’ve set up traps all through the house But still can’t catch that pesky… {page turn, of course} … Viking.” (Click to enlarge spread.) I was going to post a poem for grown-ups today, but then Mac Barnett and ...
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• Poetry Friday: Thanksgiving According to Ginger Andrews

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 510
  Anything that one is drawn to say about Ginger Andrews is a going to be a mere piece of the picture. Yes, she cleans houses with her sisters for [...]
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• tuesday morning

  
  Book Crumbs — Authority: 119
  7 am: fog. bubblegum clouds against a pale blue sky and the edges of the moon are blurred wispy like the smudge on the car window frosted opaque except for the words you traced yesterday. and the horizon is orange now as i walk into the fog carried on a fragile wind. © Priya Ganesan, November 2009 (Poetry ...
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• Poetry Friday: Naomi Shihab Nye

  
  mitali's fire escape — Authority: 119
  Heres the brilliant Naomi Shihab Nye reading four of her poems, "Please Describe How You Became a Writer," "Fresh," "During a War," and "Truth Serum," at the Dodge Poetry Festival on 9/27/08: The Poetry Friday round up this week is at Wild Rose Reader . Come visit me on the Fire Escape !
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• Poetry Friday - I ran two miles last night

  
  This Is So Gay — Authority: 119
  I ran two miles last night, my first in months. Too long Ive let myself get flabby, knowing I can build my speed back up at once. But you, old tortoise, you kept right on going. I might have been Achilles, trapped in space, defeated by a piddling abstraction, but thats another tale, another race. This one I lose by ...
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• Poetry Friday - Lander Evening

  
  Mrs. F-B's Book Blog — Authority: 128
  In honor of Veterans Day, November 11, heres a poem about a soldier who fought in Vietnam. lander evening from Gloria Bill used to mention Vietnam sometimes— Snippets of story I heard but never felt. He ...
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• Poetry Friday: Puppets, 1967

  
  On Point — Authority: 416
  Puppets, 1967 Caught inside story offered up through a mothers hand of outstretched love. Lorie Ann Grover, 2009 Thats my mom in her most groovy glasses and me! Watch for the full roundup...
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• Poetry Friday

  
  Sarah Miller: Reading, Writing, Musing... — Authority: 125
  "Those who speak know nothing Those who know are silent." These words, as I am told, Were spoken by Lao-tzü. If we are to believe that Lao-tzü Was himself one who knew, How comes it that he wrote a book Of five thousand words? ~Po Chü-i
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