Love this! The imagery you evoke in so few words, Mary Lee...to remix and reuse what you've done with these paint chips: your words rise off the page, leap out and inspire.
These look like paint sample names, though I would be astounded to hear of a paint color called "grateful." The title is apt; so very "up" kinds of thoughts! Here's to rising further.
Mary Lee - Your lovely poem today, and indeed the entire post, is giving me permission to just use the paint color names as inspiration. I've been trying to weave them all together to create a poem. This isn't always easy! Thank you for that! Also, will the call for PF hosts July-December be going out soon? I missed it the last time around. Thanks! -- Christie https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/
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Franki and Mary Lee are both teachers, and have been for more than 20 years.
Franki is a fifth grade teacher. She is the author of Beyond Leveled Books (Stenhouse), Still Learning to Read (Stenhouse), and Day-to-Day Assessment in the Reading Workshop (Scholastic).
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.
How wonderful to put those things together: cream, frogs, the sun. How surprising and yet how perfect!
ReplyDeleteLove this! The imagery you evoke in so few words, Mary Lee...to remix and reuse what you've done with these paint chips: your words rise off the page, leap out and inspire.
ReplyDeleteYes! Clever and refreshing.
ReplyDeleteThese look like paint sample names, though I would be astounded to hear of a paint color called "grateful." The title is apt; so very "up" kinds of thoughts! Here's to rising further.
ReplyDeleteMary Lee - Your lovely poem today, and indeed the entire post, is giving me permission to just use the paint color names as inspiration. I've been trying to weave them all together to create a poem. This isn't always easy! Thank you for that! Also, will the call for PF hosts July-December be going out soon? I missed it the last time around. Thanks! -- Christie https://wonderingandwondering.wordpress.com/
ReplyDeleteThe call for July-Dec PF roundup hosts goes up in June.
DeleteGreat! I'll be watching for it. Thanks!
DeleteI love how you connected the colors to the word "UP." Pretty darn clever, my friend!
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