Poetry Friday

Poetry Friday: January 12, 2024

Tracey at Tangles & Tails is hosting this week. Hop on over there for the roundup. Tracey and I met last year at Highlights during Irene Latham and Charles Waters’ poetry workshop. I’m so glad she’s a regular part of the Poetry Friday community! 
 

Sneak Peek from Sylvia

In case you missed it, Sylvia Vardell posted the yearly Sneak Peek of Poetry books for 2024. I look forward to this list every year! 
 
 

Haiku of the Week 

winter garden
grays and crisps in lesser light
rustle of stories

Haiku & Photo © 2023 Marcie Flinchum Atkins

Photo Taken: December 21, 2023 at Green Spring Gardens
Haiku Written: December 28, 2023
 
 

Poem as Picture Book 

by Adriana Hernández Bergstrom
Orchard Books, 2023
 
This is a 40-word book that is a short rhyming poem about a tumbleweed tumbling across the desert. It’s laid out mostly one line per spread.  
 

Poetry Connections

  • Use of space (line, word)
  • Rhyming
  • Couplets
  • Alliteration
  • Assonance
  • Narrative 
  • Science connections to the flora and fauna in the desert (back matter)
 

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Grow 

My word of the year is GROW. This month, I’ve been stretching myself a bit by revising and sending in poems for the Poetry Society of Virginia contests. Regardless of the outcome, it’s been a good exercise in revisiting old poems and reinvisioning them.

 

 

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