Poetry Friday

Poetry Friday January 6, 2023: Word of the Year

 
Catherine at Reading to the Core has our roundup this week.
 

Word for 2022

Last year my words of the year were NATURE AND NURTURE (not versus). I knew I needed to spend more time out in nature and nurturing myself after a long time of teaching in a pandemic.
 
I did do this–reading about nature, writing haiku about nature, taking nature journaling classes at my local parks.
 
 

Word for 2023

This year’s word piggybacks a little bit on last year. My word for the year is NOTICE.
 
I want to:
  • pay attention
  • notice when my writing is working
  • notice when my writing is not working
  • slow down enough so that I can notice the world around me
  • connect the dots
  • savor
  • look
  • listen
 
What is your word of the year?
 

Haiku of the Week

 
winter wind
seed pod slips on
fur coat
 
Photo and Haiku © 2022 Marcie Flinchum Atkins
Photo Taken: December 9, 2022 in my neighborhood
Haiku Written: December 16, 2022
 

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What I’m Reading

by Katherine Applegate
 
 
This book was the big seller at our book fair in December. I finally got a copy to read for myself over the break. This middle grade novel-in-verse has such lovely writing. I’m always intrigued when an author takes a real life situation or story and turns it into beautiful poetry.

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