The Poetry Sisters and I did a quick collaboration a couple of weeks ago. I am out the door in three minutes, so I’ll just share the verse. To see who’s who and read a bit of the background, please visit Andi Sibley and show her some poetry love!
The Poetry Sisters’ Daisy Chain
fall leaf in April
wearing last season’s fashions–
shunned by the green crowdnature’s first green is gold
progeny emerge in flamewhite melts into green
gardens blush Crayola proud
blooming shades of springstrolling down the pebble path
rose-cheeked dreamer lost in thoughtpalest pink dogwood
April breezes whisper by
petals flutter downink dries on palest pages
garden rows plow down sillionBrash green garter snake
Hoe laid beside June daisies
Book and tart limeadeserpent jewel, puckered words,
work abandoned, glory claimedafternoon drifts by
wispy clouds, half-closed eyelids
distant playground soundscloud congestion, dully pewter
petrichor from distant patterstapped on leaden skies
rain’s persistent percussion
arrhythmic ad liba morse-code chicken scratch
a fresh start too hard to resistthe rain leaves its mark –
such an inscrutable plot
begs to be re-readred again so soon and down
persimmon fingers shiver
Elaine at Wild Rose Reader has the Poetry Friday Roundup today. Go enjoy!
Just read this on Andi’s site. Wonderful! Ruth (thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com)
Thanks, Ruth!
Now wait a minute here! You didn’t start on a downer, you started the way spring does — life entwined with death. It was a BRILLIANT start!
Thanks, Mary Lee. Life entwined with death–that would be in my artist statement, if I had one. I seem to go there a lot.
The more I make my way around Poetry Friday and re-read this, the more fun I have. I am definitely going to try this one out with my sixth graders.
I bet they will have a blast!
Really wonderful to see the movement. I’d love to try this with older students. It’s fun to get connected with others in writing sometimes. Thank you Laura, & love that first verse, so true!
Collaborative poetry is SO amazing (though a little intimidating sometimes). I hope you try it with your students–and thanks!
You launched us well with that first verse, Laura. So. much. fun.
Thanks. Um, I wrote that when we just talked about haiku, not a kind of narrative connected thing. Then I felt kind of bad for starting out on a downer:>/
I’ll write here what I wrote on Andi’s blog–So fun! I really felt time passing as I was reading. It was like reliving the spring. I definitely want to try this.
Thanks, Liz, and go for it!
Every time I read this I get new connections and see more layers. This was such a splash!
Thank you for organizing us and coming up with the format and document and all, Andi–You rock!