Write About a Quiet Kindness

Friend of Kitties

by Amy LV

Students - Our eldest daughter attends college in New York City, and this week she told me a story about a lady she met while walking back to school from a babysitting job. The lady was standing near some scaffolding, reaching down and into a cut-out in the wood.  When our daughter stopped to chat, she learned that this lady is a feeder-of-city-cats.  This lady and some of her friends regularly bring canned cat food and blankets to homeless city cats.  I think that this lady is a special spirit, and I am very grateful know that she exists.  I loved hearing the story and right away knew that I would write about it in my notebook.  I did not know at that moment that I would write a poem...but here it is.

Sometimes people write poems about folks they admire.  About people they believe make the world a strong and light-filled and happier place to live in.  We can write thank you letters and opinion pieces or give written awards to such people.  Or...we can also write poems about them.  We don't even need to know the people or see them in action.  We may just learn a story about such a person, as I learned one from our daughter.

Here's a little challenge for you.  Listen to people talk.  Watch people.  See if you can uncover a kindness, a gentleness, a surprise-and hidden-goodness that many people might not know about.  Write a poem about this person or kind act, not using the person's name, but just offering it up to the world.  I sure would love to read such poems - and maybe even share them here. Such poems and stories make me want to be better myself, so I like to read as many as I can.  If you write a poem celebrating a kind act (and if you really work on it), I welcome you to have your parent or teacher send it to me through my CONTACT ME button....and I will write back.

Did you notice that the sentences in this poem get very short at the end?  I did this on purpose.  The first stanza is one long and rollicking sentence, describing the many kinds of homeless cats one might find in the city.  The second stanza, on the other hand, focuses on the actions of one human: kind and good.  I wanted that part to be read slowly.  With pauses.  That's why the lines and sentences are so short.

Here are some photographs that our sweet daughter sent to me after reading this poem:

From a Distance

Photo by H. VanDerwater

Closer

Photo by H. VanDerwater

Even Closer

Photo by H. VanDerwater

Closest

Photo by H. VanDerwater

The Educator Collaborative is currently (now through February 14, 2018) running its Global Kind Project 2018 for classrooms.  Please check it out if you are interested.  You can connect with others from all over, sharing stories and finding ways to be kinder....together.

At Sharing Our Notebooks, my other online home,  I am superhappy to host third grade teacher Dina Bolan and her third grade writers from Alexander Hamilton Elementary School in Glen Rock, New Jersey.  Please read their nonfiction notebook entries, and leave a comment to be entered into a drawing.  I will send the winning name a cool new notebook!

Please visit Kay's place today's Poetry Friday roundup at A Journey Through the Pages. Every week a group of us gather our posts together at one blog, so if you visit Kay this week...you will be introduced to many new poets and blogs and books.  We welcome you!

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Capturing Scenes & A Poetry Peek!

Easel Draft at Hamilton School

Photo by Amy LV

Students - Last week, I was very lucky to visit Alexander Hamilton School in Glen Rock, New Jersey.  As part of my visit to NJ, I took the train to see our daughter Hope at college in New York City.  On that trip, the moment you read about in today's poem....really happened.  So of course I wrote about it in my notebook.

Then I wrote about it in front of students at Hamilton School on the easel above.  And I couldn't stop thinking about it.

Certain scenes are like this - they stay in your head, stuck like peanut butter to the roof of your mouth.  Something so beautiful, peaceful, frightening, fascinating...wants to live on.  Writing helps us hold such scenes close.  Writing gives us our lives back again.  

Cesare Pavese wrote, "We do not remember days, we remember moments."  It's true.

Today it is my pleasure to welcome my friend Shirley Thacker, a wonderful teacher friend who studied with the Indiana Writing Project and taught primary students for 42 years.  A believer in writing and in building "communities of respectful brothers and sisters who accept all people and their strengths and weaknesses," Shirley joins us today to share how she writes poetry with second through fifth grade students after school and in summer Comp Camps at Wes-Del Elementary in Gaston, Indiana.  Shirley says, "Sharing is key...this is why I write. I want someone to listen."  Welcome, Shirley and welcome, young writers!

I believe there has to be a reading/writing connection.  If you read like a writer and write like a reader, your life is forever changed.  So that being said, I give a couple of weeks of choice writing while we immerse ourselves in reading in the genre we will write next.  Then when our new writing cycle starts, students will some background information to hold onto.

Before our poetry writing cycle, we have had a couple of weeks to look at poetry, reading a great variety of poems, so by the time we start writing poetry, we have learned some writing craft: onomatopoeia, just right word choice. bold nouns, vivid verbs, magic three, simile, metaphor, and more. 

Day one of poetry, students are sitting on the carpet and I tell them we will be learning how to write poems.  I invite them to watch a poem in the making. . . I am by the chart paper.  I usually choose something they won't want to copy, a topic such as coffee or my dog, Yuri.  They are watching me ponder and think.  They know that to write, you have to choose something you know about.

"I think I will try Yuri. .  .. I need a word bank to form the poem. I will write all the words that I can think of along the and down the right side of the chart paper. . . . "

Shirley's Poem Draft

(Click to Enlarge)

"Now I am ready to shape my poem. . .  Let me think. . ..hmmm"

Yuri 

by Mrs. Thacker

My little golden doodle,

Furry with beautiful eyes. . . 

like Yuri Zhivago.!

Reddish-brown like dried  pine needles.

Loved doggy school,  . . TWICE!

Can sit, shake paw, and go down. . . 

Naughty boy . .  .

Chewed Bic razor! . . .

Off to animal hospital 

lots of x-rays!  

My little lap baby,

YURI!

After this demonstration, I invite students to "Have a go at it"  . . . students go back with notebooks and have a no walk, no talk period of 10-15 min. . . while I write too!  Then we can buddy up for help and suggestions or sharing.

The next day I write a poem on a chart or return to my first poem to show revision in a different color marker. I want the students to get the idea that revision is part of writing.

When they are peer editing/sharing , I might be conferencing, walking around listening to their poems.  Students may publish or write new poems at any time.  Sometimes students will want to read more to get ideas. The room looks like a newspaper office with everyone doing what they need to do! This is the best 45-60 min in our day.

Here are a few poems from students in last year's Comp Camp.

Rainstorm

by Chloe (grade 2)

BOOM

Splash, drip

The thunder growling

Lightning!

Flashing through the windows.

It's getting louder,

And LOUDER.

Then it stops.

The sun is out!

A RAINBOW!
BYE!

See you later, 

Rain

Pink 

by Alaina (grade 3)

Pink is the color of...

A highlighter, my hair tie, my bed and blankets

Pink is the color of...

My shirts and pants, my notebook.

Pink is the color of...

Watermelon, jolly rancher, and sweatshirt.

Rainstorm

by Brock (grade 3)

I make people fright

I make them cry

I make puddles

I make sparks and electricity!

Chair

by Norah (grade 3)

I am a MAD chair!

Kids fall on me...

BAM!

Kids slam me,

Kids sit on me...

Huh, huh, huh!

Pay back time!!!

Mrs. Thacker

by Carter (grade 3)

Mrs. Thacker is the bomb!

Rad

So the best hugger.

The best storyteller

The best singer.

Awesome teacher!

Cool!!

Book Lover

Nice person

READER!

Darkness

by Callie (grade 5)

The sun is so dark

Darkness

I see a

Person. Oh wait, it's

A rock

Darkness

I hear a horse

Oh Wait, 

It's Mr. Shaffer

Darkness, 

I see the Darkest soul

Of them all!

Darkness,

Oh yes,

Darkness

Nature

by Ella (grade 5)

The wind was blowing through the trees,

The wind chimes sing a song with keys,

Around around everywhere we go.

Nature tells us something we don't know

Over there and over here

There's nothing ever to fear!

Summertime Storms

by Jennah (grade 5)

I don't have much fear

When storms are near

But when wind blows

My scared expression shows!

Crashes of thunder

Flashes some lightning

This weather is

My heart's everything

Hail starts to fall

From a sky full of gray

I wish I could

Be outside to play,

But Mom says," "NOT TODAY!"

Branches of trees 

Scatter the ground

There are so many things

Making a sound

Not a tornado was in sight!

I'm really glad!

Didn't take flight

Storm has passed

It went by

Very FAST!

Orange 

by Kasen (grade 3)

Orange is the color...

Morning and dawn.

Lawn in winter

Lava at the center of a volcano

Lots of things

On our beautiful earth!

Please Don't Go

by Malachi (grade 4)

Don't go bye bye

In front of my eyes.

Just don't die...

I love you KYE!

Please don't go

You stole my heart.

I know...

I will fall apart.

PLEASE DON'T GO!!!

Thank you so much, Shirley and poets, for joining us here at The Poem Farm today! It was a treat to have you here and to read your words.

I would also like to thank the amazing Donna Farrell, for her gorgeous work redesigning the look of The Poem Farm, Sharing Our Notebooks, and my website.  I am incredibly grateful to her.

Please visit the latest post at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks and comment by Saturday, October 14 to win a copy of Caroline Starr Rose's latest book!  She's sharing a poem AND a peek inside of her notebooks.

You can find more poems and poemlove over at Violet Nesdoly/poems as the warm and wise Violet is hosting this week's Poetry Friday roundup, where everyone is always welcome to read, comment, and link in with us!

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Final Day of Writing the Rainbow #30 - Magenta

Welcome to the final day of my National Poetry Month project for 2017!  Students - Each day of April 2017, I closed my eyes, and I reached into my box of 64 Crayola crayons.

Aerial View of Crayola Box

Photo by Georgia LV

Each day I chose a crayon (without looking), pulling this crayon out of the box. This daily selected crayon in some way inspired the poem for the next day.  Each day of this month, I chose a new crayon, thinking and writing about one color every day for a total of 30 poems inspired by colors.

As of April 2, it happened that my poems took a turn to all be from the point of view of a child living in an apartment building.  So, you'll notice this thread running through the month of colors. I'd not planned this...it was a writing surprise.

Thank you to the many students and teachers and classrooms who shared on our Writing the Rainbow Padlet - HERE.  There is so much joy and so much color here! 

Here you can see the colors for the whole month, displayed on a glorious colorful calendar made by Deb Frazier's first graders in Ohio.  Thank you, young poets!

Writing the Rainbow Calendar

by Deb Frazier and Her First Grade Poets

Ohio

Here is a list of this month's Writing the Rainbow Poems:

March 30 - Pick a Crayon, Write a Poem - Project Introduction 

April 1 - Misty - Inspired by Carnation Pink

April 2 - Each Morning - Inspired by Lavender

April 3 - Outside My Building - Inspired by Dandelion (!)

April 4 - Mr. B. - Inspired by Olive Green

April 5 - Once in a While - Inspired by Tumbleweed

April 6 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape - Inspired by Yellow Orange

April 7 - The Guy Downstairs - Inspired by Spring Green

April 8 - I Watch Her - Inspired by Forest Green

April 9 - Their Hands - Inspired by White

April 10 - Up and Down - Inspired by Orange

April 11 - Eavesdropping - Inspired by Sky Blue

April 12 - Mr. Mick - Inspired by Red Violet

April 13 - Sights - Inspired by Purple Mountains' Majesty

April 14 - On Saturdays - Inspired by Melon

April 15 - Bundle - Inspired by Robin's Egg Blue

April 16 - Our Rooftop - Inspired by Periwinkle

April 17 - Childhood Trees - Inspired by Mahogany

April 18 - In Our Laundry Room - Inspired by Blue

April 19 - Summer Treat - Inspired by Red

April 20 - Home - Inspired by Timberwolf

April 21 - After School - Inspired by Apricot

April 22 - Misty's Eyes - Inspired by Yellow Green

April 23 - City Night - Inspired by Black

April 24 - Sharing Asparagus - Inspired by Asparagus

April 25 - I Wonder Things - Inspired by Wild Strawberry

April 26 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape Again - Inspired by Red Orange

April 27 - Saturday Morning - Inspired by Blue Violet

April 28 - Tia and Me - Inspired by Wisteria

April 29 - The Railing - Inspired by Tan

And now...today's crayon, the last one.  Magenta!

New Girl and Bike

by Amy LV

Students -  Today's poem is my final poem for the Writing the Rainbow series.  It felt right to take this time to refer back to some of this month's earlier poems.  If you read the poem below, you will see that I have linked lines to previous poems where connections exist.

New Girl

She has a lot of braids

and a cool magenta bike.

(She rides it on the sidewalk.)

I think I’m going to like

to have a new kid living here.

She’ll like Misty too. (Also here.)

She’ll snack out on the stoop with us.

(She’s moving into Number 2.)

We’ll let her hold Asparagus.

She’ll wave and smile at Mr. B.

I think she’ll love the sky at night.

I’ll take her to the roof with me. (Also here.)

Miss Johnson will give her a hug. (Also here.)

She’ll wash and dry 

her clothes downstairs.

I really like her bike a lot.

(I wonder if she shares.)

© Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

National Poetry Month 2017

(Poem inspired by Crayola’s Magenta)

If you are still Writing the Rainbow with me, perhaps you, too, will choose to connect your poems with previous poems you have written.  I've connected two poems before...but never a handful of poems as I have done today.

Colors can take us anywhere.  Please take a visit to this month's lovely Writing the Rainbow Padlet, with contributions from so many generous teachers and students and poets from everywhere!  Please feel free to add to this Padlet still, as I am sure it will continue to have curious and interested visitors.  

It has been an absolute joy to share another National Poetry Month with everyone who has stopped by to read either every day or just once in a while.  I have loved reading your poems, hearing from you, and finding new surprises in colors every single day.  Each of the poems here was written fresh for that day, and I always went with the first color offered by my box that day.  It was a blast, and I learned a lot.

Thank you, dear friends, for joining me during this colorful month: for sharing your poems and ideas, for keeping me company.  Much love to you for May.

xo,

a.

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Writing the Rainbow #29 - Tan

Welcome to my National Poetry Month project for 2017!  Students - Each day of April 2017, I will close my eyes, and I will reach into my box of 64 Crayola crayons.

Aerial View of Crayola Box

Photo by Georgia LV

Each day I will choose a crayon (without looking), pulling this crayon out of the box. This daily selected crayon will in some way inspire the poem for the next day.  Each day of this month, I will choose a new crayon, thinking and writing about one color every day for a total of 30 poems inspired by colors.

As of April 2, it happened that my poems took a turn to all be from the point of view of a child living in an apartment building.  So, you'll notice this thread running through the month of colors. I'd not planned this...it was a writing surprise.

I welcome any classrooms of poets who wish to share class poems (class poems only please) related to each day's color (the one I choose or your own).  Please post your class poem or photograph of any class crayon poem goodness to our Writing the Rainbow Padlet HERE.  (If you have never posted on a Padlet, it is very easy.  Just double click on the red background, and a box will appear.  Write in this box, and upload any poemcrayon sharings you wish.)

Here is a list of this month's Writing the Rainbow Poems so far:

March 30 - Pick a Crayon, Write a Poem - Project Introduction 

April 1 - Misty - Inspired by Carnation Pink

April 2 - Each Morning - Inspired by Lavender

April 3 - Outside My Building - Inspired by Dandelion (!)

April 4 - Mr. B. - Inspired by Olive Green

April 5 - Once in a While - Inspired by Tumbleweed

April 6 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape - Inspired by Yellow Orange

April 7 - The Guy Downstairs - Inspired by Spring Green

April 8 - I Watch Her - Inspired by Forest Green

April 9 - Their Hands - Inspired by White

April 10 - Up and Down - Inspired by Orange

April 11 - Eavesdropping - Inspired by Sky Blue

April 12 - Mr. Mick - Inspired by Red Violet

April 13 - Sights - Inspired by Purple Mountains' Majesty

April 14 - On Saturdays - Inspired by Melon

April 15 - Bundle - Inspired by Robin's Egg Blue

April 16 - Our Rooftop - Inspired by Periwinkle

April 17 - Childhood Trees - Inspired by Mahogany

April 18 - In Our Laundry Room - Inspired by Blue

April 19 - Summer Treat - Inspired by Red

April 20 - Home - Inspired by Timberwolf

April 21 - After School - Inspired by Apricot

April 22 - Misty's Eyes - Inspired by Yellow Green

April 23 - City Night - Inspired by Black

April 24 - Sharing Asparagus - Inspired by Asparagus

April 25 - I Wonder Things - Inspired by Wild Strawberry

April 26 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape Again - Inspired by Red Orange

April 27 - Saturday Morning - Inspired by Blue Violet

April 28 - Tia and Me - Inspired by Wisteria

And now...today's crayon.  Tan!

Up and Down

by Amy LV

Students - Today's poem is a concrete poem.  You will notice that the line breaks shape the poem into stair steps, mirroring the way a person walks up and down stairs.  And reading this poem is a bit unusual because one must begin in a different place than usual.  Was it tricky for you to decide how to read it?

If you are Writing the Rainbow with me, perhaps your color for today will bring a particular object to mind.  I very much enjoy running my hand along stair rails, imagining all of the people who have walked up and down the same stairs that I walk up and down.

You may also wish to write a concrete poem of your own.  I especially enjoy concrete poems that show movement in some way, that mirror the movement of the actions.

Colors can take us anywhere.  And if you'd like to join in with your own poem at our Writing the Rainbow Padlet, please do! It is one colorful and beautiful place to visit..

And please don't miss the links to all kinds of Poetry Month goodness up there in my upper left sidebar.  Happy thirtieth day of National Poetry Month...tomorrow is April 30.

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Writing the Rainbow #28 - Wisteria

Welcome to my National Poetry Month project for 2017!  Students - Each day of April 2017, I will close my eyes, and I will reach into my box of 64 Crayola crayons.

Aerial View of Crayola Box

Photo by Georgia LV

Each day I will choose a crayon (without looking), pulling this crayon out of the box. This daily selected crayon will in some way inspire the poem for the next day.  Each day of this month, I will choose a new crayon, thinking and writing about one color every day for a total of 30 poems inspired by colors.

As of April 2, it happened that my poems took a turn to all be from the point of view of a child living in an apartment building.  So, you'll notice this thread running through the month of colors. I'd not planned this...it was a writing surprise.

I welcome any classrooms of poets who wish to share class poems (class poems only please) related to each day's color (the one I choose or your own).  Please post your class poem or photograph of any class crayon poem goodness to our Writing the Rainbow Padlet HERE.  (If you have never posted on a Padlet, it is very easy.  Just double click on the red background, and a box will appear.  Write in this box, and upload any poemcrayon sharings you wish.)

Here is a list of this month's Writing the Rainbow Poems so far:

March 30 - Pick a Crayon, Write a Poem - Project Introduction 

April 1 - Misty - Inspired by Carnation Pink

April 2 - Each Morning - Inspired by Lavender

April 3 - Outside My Building - Inspired by Dandelion (!)

April 4 - Mr. B. - Inspired by Olive Green

April 5 - Once in a While - Inspired by Tumbleweed

April 6 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape - Inspired by Yellow Orange

April 7 - The Guy Downstairs - Inspired by Spring Green

April 8 - I Watch Her - Inspired by Forest Green

April 9 - Their Hands - Inspired by White

April 10 - Up and Down - Inspired by Orange

April 11 - Eavesdropping - Inspired by Sky Blue

April 12 - Mr. Mick - Inspired by Red Violet

April 13 - Sights - Inspired by Purple Mountains' Majesty

April 14 - On Saturdays - Inspired by Melon

April 15 - Bundle - Inspired by Robin's Egg Blue

April 16 - Our Rooftop - Inspired by Periwinkle

April 17 - Childhood Trees - Inspired by Mahogany

April 18 - In Our Laundry Room - Inspired by Blue

April 19 - Summer Treat - Inspired by Red

April 20 - Home - Inspired by Timberwolf

April 21 - After School - Inspired by Apricot

April 22 - Misty's Eyes - Inspired by Yellow Green

April 23 - City Night - Inspired by Black

April 24 - Sharing Asparagus - Inspired by Asparagus

April 25 - I Wonder Things - Inspired by Wild Strawberry

April 26 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape Again - Inspired by Red Orange

April 27 - Saturday Morning - Inspired by Blue Violet

And now...today's crayon.  Wisteria!

Dance

by Amy LV

Students - Yesterday's color, BLUE VIOLET was purple-y....and I've written about purple-y sky with PERIWINKLE.  So today's challenge was to find a new window into a new purple.  Tia Inez, from April 17 (MAHOGONY), led the way.

Now, I don't know so much about Tia.  I don't even know if Tia and our friend are really related or if they are just so close that they feel like family.  Today, though, family or not, Tia Inez is sharing some of her thoughts about life.  Sometimes people do this - give us advice or tips or wise words.  We can remember and write about them.  Or, as writers, we can make up our own and give them to our characters.

If you are Writing the Rainbow with me, perhaps your color for today will bring you to a place of thinking or advice.  Maybe you will find yourself musing on an idea or topic as I did her through Tia Inez.  

Colors can take us anywhere.  And if you'd like to join in with your own poem at our Writing the Rainbow Padlet, please do! It is one colorful and beautiful place to visit.  (And I heard there may be a few new poems going up there soon...written by another poet who is writing about a colorful apartment building of her own!)

JoAnn Early Macken is hosting today's Poetry Friday roundup over at Teaching Authors with some spring beauties.  All are always welcome to this weekly poetry party.

And please don't miss the links to all kinds of Poetry Month goodness up there in my upper left sidebar.  Happy twenty-eighth day of National Poetry Month.  Only two days left after today!

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Writing the Rainbow #27 - Blue Violet

Welcome to my National Poetry Month project for 2017!  Students - Each day of April 2017, I will close my eyes, and I will reach into my box of 64 Crayola crayons.

Aerial View of Crayola Box

Photo by Georgia LV

Each day I will choose a crayon (without looking), pulling this crayon out of the box. This daily selected crayon will in some way inspire the poem for the next day.  Each day of this month, I will choose a new crayon, thinking and writing about one color every day for a total of 30 poems inspired by colors.

As of April 2, it happened that my poems took a turn to all be from the point of view of a child living in an apartment building.  So, you'll notice this thread running through the month of colors. I'd not planned this...it was a writing surprise.

I welcome any classrooms of poets who wish to share class poems (class poems only please) related to each day's color (the one I choose or your own).  Please post your class poem or photograph of any class crayon poem goodness to our Writing the Rainbow Padlet HERE.  (If you have never posted on a Padlet, it is very easy.  Just double click on the red background, and a box will appear.  Write in this box, and upload any poemcrayon sharings you wish.)

Here is a list of this month's Writing the Rainbow Poems so far:

March 30 - Pick a Crayon, Write a Poem - Project Introduction 

April 1 - Misty - Inspired by Carnation Pink

April 2 - Each Morning - Inspired by Lavender

April 3 - Outside My Building - Inspired by Dandelion (!)

April 4 - Mr. B. - Inspired by Olive Green

April 5 - Once in a While - Inspired by Tumbleweed

April 6 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape - Inspired by Yellow Orange

April 7 - The Guy Downstairs - Inspired by Spring Green

April 8 - I Watch Her - Inspired by Forest Green

April 9 - Their Hands - Inspired by White

April 10 - Up and Down - Inspired by Orange

April 11 - Eavesdropping - Inspired by Sky Blue

April 12 - Mr. Mick - Inspired by Red Violet

April 13 - Sights - Inspired by Purple Mountains' Majesty

April 14 - On Saturdays - Inspired by Melon

April 15 - Bundle - Inspired by Robin's Egg Blue

April 16 - Our Rooftop - Inspired by Periwinkle

April 17 - Childhood Trees - Inspired by Mahogany

April 18 - In Our Laundry Room - Inspired by Blue

April 19 - Summer Treat - Inspired by Red

April 20 - Home - Inspired by Timberwolf

April 21 - After School - Inspired by Apricot

April 22 - Misty's Eyes - Inspired by Yellow Green

April 23 - City Night - Inspired by Black

April 24 - Sharing Asparagus - Inspired by Asparagus

April 25 - I Wonder Things - Inspired by Wild Strawberry

April 26 - On Miss Johnson's Fire Escape Again - Inspired by Red Orange

And now...today's crayon.  Blue Violet!

Writing in the Sky

by Amy LV

Students - Somehow, it just felt right that our little friend should have a blue violet notebook.  And who wouldn't want to write up in the sky?  Today's poem is about writing.  Writers often write about writing, and I've been thinking that this young person is very observant and most likely keeps a writer's notebook. 

Do you notice the repetition in today's poem?  Feel free to play with repeating words and lines in your own poems. Repetition can lend a playful air.

If you are Writing the Rainbow with me, perhaps your color for today will make you write about writing.

Colors can take us anywhere.  And if you'd like to join in with your own poem at our Writing the Rainbow Padlet, please do! It is one colorful and beautiful place to visit..

And please don't miss the links to all kinds of Poetry Month goodness up there in my upper left sidebar.  Happy twenty-seventh day of National Poetry Month!

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