The 2013 Progressive Poem by 30 Poets of the Kidlitosphere
This Progressive Poem has been moving from blog to blog, growing poet by poet, for 29 days until it’s come here for one final line.
Lovebirds Kissing in the Dog Park
I don’t even know which is their dog …
Bedtime
Cat sleeping with one eye open
in case Dog flies down the stairs.
Our Dog’s Adoption Story
Freshman Dodger John Ely is pitching his 2nd game ever in the majors
sending those balls skidding past every one of the Brewers,
making them spin like tops,
no one gets on—
what a great dance.
Dog Park Spring Quartet
Sometimes I get flashes on a topic. Pieces of a puzzle that don’t fit together with that satisfying click no matter how I look at the pieces.
When I Am a Dog
I was looking at Eli’s strong, long tail and suddenly I had a teeny case of tail envy.
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 […]
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
How Does it Feel?
My body after the hike felt so…so what? It was vibrating from the exercise and from the green of the day. This is what I tried to put down in a poem.