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.
Dog Tree Apostrophe
An apostrophe poem is one in which the poet talks to an inanimate object.
When I Am a Dog
I was looking at Eli’s strong, long tail and suddenly I had a teeny case of tail envy.
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.
Playing With Rhythm and Rhyme
I’m suspended in midair
like there’re wings on me
in my lifeguard chair
by the avocado tree
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.