today's lesson
persistence, by chicory
(if mown, bloom low)
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2016
Margaret has today's Poetry Friday roundup at Reflections on the Teche.
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Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Mary Lee is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Reconsidering Read-Aloud (Stenhouse) and has poems in the Poetry Friday Anthology, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Middle School, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Science, the Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations (Pomelo Books), Dear Tomato: An International Crop of Food and Agriculture Poems, National Geographic Books of Nature Poems, The Best of Today's Little Ditty (2014-15 and 2016), Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's Poems are Teachers, National Geographic's The Poetry of US, and IMPERFECT: Poems About Mistakes.
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Love it, Mary Lee!
ReplyDeleteHa! These lovely flowers are all over the place here in upstate NY - they are mown down by the side of the road one day...and gaily back (thought smaller) the next. That's the spirit!
ReplyDeleteGrinning.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I like that!
ReplyDeleteLove this, Mary! Clever
ReplyDeleteA lesson for us, too? I am often in awe of the evolutionary qualities. Beautful, Mary Lee!
ReplyDeleteKeep blooming, Mary Lee! Love this lesson in persistence.
ReplyDeleteThey are proof summer has arrived. :-)
ReplyDeleteWonderful lesson from small purple flowers (chicory, it is). Thanks for teaching me persistence and flower Identification (all on Poetry Friday).
ReplyDeleteLove these resilient little flowers and your matching poem.
ReplyDeleteTaking note! God bless these determined little buggers.
ReplyDeleteMary Lee, you created a wonderful #imagepoem. the photo is clear and full of verve while the poem holds a strong message. I hope you consider offering an #imagepoem for my summer gallery, Summerscapes.
ReplyDeleteClever poem! Love the photo too.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother always called these flowers cornflowers, maybe because they bloom around the same time the corn ripens. Whatever you call them, their persistence can't be denied!
ReplyDeleteI love it! They are such a beautiful color.
ReplyDeleteOh you sent me to investigate this one. We don't have these lovelies!
ReplyDeleteChicory! It's the root we use for coffee-like effects, isn't it? "They go low; we go high."
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the lawn dandelions! They get shorter and shorter blooming. Resistant, insistent and persistent!
ReplyDeleteHa! Love it. I think we have a new way to encourage our kids: "Be chicory!"
ReplyDeleteMary Lee, I just had to stop back to add that your comment to Ruth on her Odysseus post was so touching!
ReplyDelete'Persistence' indeed! Must. Be. Chicory. =)
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