December 23, 2016
The Poem Farm is taking an internet-free holiday through the New Year!
Many joyous wishes to you and yours during this time of light.
Peace,
Amy
The Poem Farm is taking an internet-free holiday through the New Year!
Many joyous wishes to you and yours during this time of light.
Peace,
Amy
Two Girls Decorate Gingerbread Doves at Grandma's House
Photo by Amy LV
Students - Today's poem sprouted from something that happened last weekend. I don't even need to tell you what happened because the poem and the photograph above tell the whole story. We had such a good time at my mom's house, and you can see our two girls happily decorating.
When I began writing toward this poem, my first words were inspired by the red tin of cookies sitting on our coffee table.
Tiny Gingerbread Cookies
Photo by Amy LV
I began writing about cookies whispering to me. Then I imagined that these cookies were the great-grandchildren of the famed Gingerbread Boy of storybook lore. And then I remembered last weekend. I remembered the giggles we all had over the two styles of cookie that our girls decorated together: one style by one sister, one by the other.
Gingerbread Cookies of All Kinds
(Can You Find the Shark?)
Photo by Amy LV
Pay attention to when you laugh. In laughter, in family giggles, in guffaws and snorts...we discover the joyous poems of our lives. I wish you so so many good laughs this winter season!
If you, like I, enjoy discovering old and wonderful picture books, don't miss THE BEDSPREAD by Sylvia Fair. Our youngest daughter's nursery school teacher recommended it to us as she had two daughters who were very different from each other...and we do too! Writing today's poem brought me back to this old favorite.
Tabatha is hosting today's Poetry Friday party over at The Opposite of Indifference. Join her, and all of us, in finding goodness in poetry and life all week long. Everyone is always invited to Poetry Friday, and the tea is always on.
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