Happy Spring! April is poetry month. A time to welcome poetry into your teaching. A time for opening windows, lingering sunshine, and seed planting in our journals. Here in South Florida, Springtime is in the flora and fauna. Today I noticed the Tabebuia chrysotricha tree standing tall in the parking lot of the library I go to every day after school. Its sunny yellow blossoms drifted from the branches to the ground. I usually carry a small spiral notebook with me where ever I go, to jot down ideas of inspiration. You can find the seeds for a poem just about anywhere.
Here is a “double” haiku. A little non traditional but I have kept the 5, 7, 5 syllable pattern for each of the stanzas.
I hope you will stop and notice the beautiful flora that is awakening in your neighbourhood, and jot down your own seeds of inspiration.
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Just found your post on FB, Suzy. I think we have a bit in common. I taught 6,7,8 grades, a mixed classroom for a lot of years in an independent school. We spent much time outside writing and journaling, overnight, too! I love your tree that ‘rains yellow’! I posted a few ‘buds’ today from the garden. That’s about it for Denver right now! Happy April!
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Thanks Linda. I have taken the plunge with my own blog and look forward to many more creative endeavours. Hang on to those buds… they’re little but soon there will be an explosion of green.
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“Sleepy writing spirits burst” Spring gives us so many wonderful topics to write about.
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Yes it does. I’ve always tried to pass that along to my students.
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