Education and Inspiration through the ancient art of storytelling!
Do you love the layers of language?
Playing with words?
The sounds and rhythms,
And layers of meanings?
Would you like to develop a poetic sensibility?
In the not too distant past,
poetry was main stream.
Every school kid memorized poems.
Not just the high-brow and well-heeled,
Average Folks,
recited poetry for special occasions,
had a dozen poems in their head,
learned by heart,
that they could pull out to woo a lover.
I was impressed a dozen years ago,
and given hope, by the Poetry Slam,
more recently the Def Poetry Jam
And a string of Poet Laureates
have made strides to bring poetry back.
This page is dedicated to re-planting,
fertilizing, weeding, and nurturing,
A love for poetry.
Read on
and write a few of your own!
Here are haiku from my book Frog Songs
and animal poems from Song of the Red Fox
Listen to my poem Meadowlark from my CD Prairie Fire!
and read aloud one of your favorite poems to some one who will shout BRAVO!
I like playing with genre, so here a few basic types of poetry
a few examples and a little 'how-to' on writing these different types of poems.
Inspired by Dylan Thomas, almost every year, I write a Birthday Poem to reflect on the year, on the day, or on the bigger issues of my life. Since my birthday is on June 29th, I am often out canoeing, hiking, swimming, or working on the Spirit of Peoria, hence there are often images of rivers and trails!
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Now you also know how old I am!
