A Gift from K to Me
Photo by Amy LV
Students - Isn't that quilt square beautiful? A friend just sent it to me...and she made a matching one for herself. So even though we live far away from each other, we can look at our quilt squares and feel our friendship. I love it. In fact, I love it so much that it made me want to write a poem as a way of thanking my friend K.
Sometimes an object can give a person a big feeling. This quilt square made me think about how much I love handmade gifts, both receiving and giving them. It made made ask a question to all who read the poem - an invitation to remember any handmade gifts from our pasts.
You might want to try this. Walk around your home or outside or look around inside your backpack or desk and choose an object. Think about the questions it inspires. List these questions, choose one, and write!
This poem almost grew up to be a Shakespearean - or English - sonnet. But it stopped growing at line 12. See, if this were a complete sonnet, there would be a rhyming couplet (two lines) at the end. And as I wrote this, I chose to leave the question hanging rather than to wrap it up with a couplet including my reflection. Yes, the poem had a mind of its own!
I could not be more grateful and excited to share that my new READ! READ! READ! illustrated by Ryan O'Rourke, has made the 2017 Nerdies List for Poetry and Novels in Verse. It is a wonderful list and a wonderful honor. Thank you, Nerdy Book Club!
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Over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks, you can find a wonderful peek into Julie Patterson's notebooks. Leave a comment...and you just may win a book. Do so soon as there will be a new post up after January 1.
Heidi is hosting today's Poetry Friday roundup over at my juicy little universe with a beautiful celebration of poems about trees...and a photo of some lovely handmade gifts too. Please visit! We meet weekly, and everyone is invited.
Happy glorious last Poetry Friday of 2017 to all of you! I am very grateful for this community...for those of you I know personally and those of you whom I have not yet met. See you in 2018!
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