Inspired by April Pulley Sayre's three chant books Trout, Trout, Trout, Ant, Ant, Ant, and Bird, Bird, Bird, I set out to create a chant of all the blogs in my Google Reader. As you might imagine, I wound up with an even more profound appreciation for April's books. She works magic with animal names. I think I missed magic by quite a long shot.
I do okay with the chant rhythms (mostly), but my rhymes fall by the wayside fairly early. Every now and then, the chant seems to say something, but that is most likely by accident. And the ending...well, if you were jumping rope to this, you wouldn't mind so much that it.just.ends. (But it ends with a Chair, a Fireplace and a Tea Cozy so that you can snuggle up with your favorite book or computer and read! The roundup today is at hipwritermama.)
So I give you...
Blog, Blog, Blog
a Google Reader Chant
Check It Out, please!
Rats! I forgot promised to do this for our next stretch. Okay, Monday it is. Will this inspire you to try another? I think this one is pretty amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow, fun and well done!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the blog blog blog!
I love your poem/blogroll.And I'm so honored to be on it! I've never been in a poem before.
ReplyDelete-Susan
LOVE this! Read it aloud -- twice. And now I'm off to follow the links!!!
ReplyDeleteIt always amazes me that you guys are so versatile -- I cannot for the life of me force myself to make poetry in so many forms -- although I did just have help being pushed toward sonnets! -- Well done!
ReplyDeleteThis is really fun. I especially liked "Check It Out, please!". For some reason that part works especially well. But it's all very nice to chant. Thanks for brightening a Friday morning.
ReplyDeleteVery fun!
ReplyDeleteKudos, kudos, kudos!
ReplyDeleteI adore this!
ReplyDeleteFun, Fun, Fun!
ReplyDeleteWhat a blast to read this out loud! I think you've started a trend...
ReplyDeleteWouldn't it be fun if some ultra-geek wrote a program so that you could sort your blog roll as a chant, rather than boring ol' alpha up and alpha down?!?
ReplyDeleteMary Lee,
ReplyDeleteThat's quite a chant! It can be fun palying around with the titles of blogs. Some months ago I wrote a found poem using the names of blogs.
Thanks for including WRR in the chant!
Let's all chant this when we meet up in Portland for the Bloggers Conference! We should have time to memorize it by then, right???
ReplyDeleteThis is so clever and creative! Have a nice long weekend Mary Lee!
ReplyDeleteI love this, ML! Fantastic. What a creative idea.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful, Mary Lee, and how nifty to be included -- thank you!
ReplyDeleteIt definitely gets across the idea that poetry is meant to be read aloud.
I think from now on, Thursday evenings, as I start thinking about my entry, I will say your chant. And the less inspiration I seem to have at the moment, the more loudly I'll chant!