Metaphors Be With You
x DON’T TRY TO FIX ME by April Halprin Wayland x Just let me be. Just for a while. Some big, dead animal presses down. I don’t know why I feel like this. x Don’t try to fix me. Just let me be. x I have no breath. There isn’t anything to give— there’s nothing […]
Imitate Your Favorite Poem
x x Who’s coming in the dog park gate?!?!?! Okay…first read this poem: x THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE by William Butler Yeats x I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for […]
Thank You Poem
HEADLINE, DEADLINE, END-OF-LINE by April Halprin Wayland X There are no ants who climb these lines to hoist up every front-page word— absurd. X No crow flies low to drop in twos the sentences which caw the news. X Occasionally a friend will send a music essay which informs (though silence seems to be the […]
Sign a Song!
Xx Oops! This poem was set to post on April 23rd…but never actually appeared. So…here it is…listen to this under-one-minute clip before reading the poem… x CALLING ALL FOLKIES by April Halprin Wayland X People, listen to the friends all singing Come, bring your guitar, share a song People, listen to the friends all singing […]
Nonsense Poem!
Wake up! Are you a Jabberwock?
your head has nodded to the desk
at first I thought ’twas writer’s block
Oh, beamish boy—you’re hair’s askew!
I kick your shoe—I think it best
before our teacher catches you.
Earth Day: Overheard
… And look—a poem is drifting in.
Be an Animal!
I’ve become somewhat of a dandelion connoisseur …
Playing With Rhythm and Rhyme
I’m suspended in midair
like there’re wings on me
in my lifeguard chair
by the avocado tree
TeachingAuthors.com turns 2!
We six who ride our blog horse here
are rather like that Paul Revere
“One if by land, two if by sea,”
was revolution’s poetry
Sounds Like a Poem
Take your notebook to a park or a restaurant or a school or the beach and write down the sounds. It may help to close your eyes to hear them. Select the most interesting; write a poem.