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Poetry Friday: Make a Splash! edition
Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 1:11 AM | 31 Comments

“Water often spells surprises
with its changing forms and sizes,
rain and snow, ponds and brooks,
water has so many looks,
sounds and moods and colors—yet
in every shape, it’s always WET!”

from Splish Splash by Joan Bransfield Graham (text) and Steve Scott (art)

This week was the start of our summer reading program, and it’s our first year participating in the national Collaborative Summer Library Program. Since there’s a good chance libraries near you are using the same theme—Make a Splash, Read!—and since it’s now officially summer, I thought it would make a nice theme.

I love Splish Splash, because it’s great for young readers, with a healthy dosage of concrete poems. Other picks for water-themed poetry are Splash! Poems of Our Watery World by Constance Levy, and Water Music by Jane Yolen.

Poetry Friday is here today! Enjoy!

Low Tide (early)

Poetry Friday

Laura from Teaching Poetry K-12 talks about the practical side of faith with Emily Dickinson’s poem #185.
Toby from The Writer’s Armchair is in today with caterpillar poetry.
Mary Lee from A Year of Reading is thinking about the work we do together, and about butterflies.
Laura from Author Amok has a list-poem lesson/critical thinking for middle schoolers and up, using a found list-poem from Found Magazine and Laura Boss’ poem “At the Nuclear Rally” as models for writing.
jama rattigan’s alphabet soup shares “The Veggie Life” by Michael Steffen.
Amy from The Poem Farm has posted an original children’s poem about poetry.
The Stenhouse Blog has a poem by Jack Prelutsky: “When I Am Full of Silence.”
Diane has “Don’t Let That Horse” at Random Noodling, ekphrastic poetry at Kurious Kitty, and a quote by Thomas Macaulay at KK’s Kwotes.
Doraine from Dori Reads posted “Noise, by Pooh” since is going to see her grandkids this weekend.
Andy from The Write Sisters shares a powerful look at a devastated ocean.
Ruth at There is no thing as a God-forsaken town is in with a poem called “Going Back.”
Karen Edmisten is in with some Robert Frost and some notes about her Teacher Husband being home for the summer.
Elaine from Wild Rose Reader has an original list poem entitled “Things to Do If You Are a Lawnmower.”
Jeannine Atkins writes about a new book edited by Naomi Shihab Nye: Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets Under 25.
Alison at Wistful Wanderings is in this week with a poem by Hilde Domin.
Sherry at Semicolon has “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns.

High Tide (later)

Barbara from Words Take Flight is in with her poem, “Of Cabbagges and (K)ale.”
Sally from PaperTigers is in with a post on a poetry book called Anything But Hank.
Father Goose has posted a tribute to Mose T.
Little Willow from Bildungsroman posted ’Scaped by Stephen Crane.
Gregory K. from GottaBook is up with a re-issue of an original poem called “Hello, Summer!”
Beth from Endless Books reflected a bit on “Rain in Summer” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Janet at All About the Books posted about Have You Ever Done That? written by Julie Hofstrand Larios and illustrated by Anne Hunter.
Jone writes about memorizing “Jabberwocky” this summer at Check It Out, and she has an original cento poem for Poetry Stretch at Deo Writer.
Linda at The Write Time is in today with an original children’s poem about a silly dinosaur.
Julie at The Drift Record offers up “At the Zoo” by A.A. Milne in honor of her grandson’s visit.