Congratulations on posting every day, Mary Lee. It's been hard to keep up this week, but I've enjoyed all your haiku. Looking forward to finding out what your next adventure will be!
I'm looking forward to some new kind of writing, too, but I want to tell you that I've loved all thirty of those 'seventeen syllables'! Have a great weekend, Mary Lee.
I've loved reading these! You blew me away, again and again, with how much big thinking and how much truth you could pack into seventeen syllables. Thank you!
And should I admit that one of the first things that popped into my head this morning, after waking, was, "I don't have to write a poem today!"
I thoroughly enjoyed your honed haiku craft this month, Mary Lee. The poignancy of your poems transcend their size/syllable count. I sort of wish I picked only one form and improved my craft over the month rather than trying 30 different forms, but at the same time, I discovered some new forms I wouldn't have otherwise, so there's that. Loved being a reader of your NPM brilliance. Thank you! :)
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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.
Congratulations on posting every day, Mary Lee. It's been hard to keep up this week, but I've enjoyed all your haiku. Looking forward to finding out what your next adventure will be!
ReplyDeleteI've really enjoyed these all month! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to some new kind of writing, too, but I want to tell you that I've loved all thirty of those 'seventeen syllables'! Have a great weekend, Mary Lee.
ReplyDeleteHa! I've so enjoyed your haiku this month. Glad you get a rest. But, I might be in withdrawl.
ReplyDeleteHahaha. I feel you. As much as I adore equation poems, I am tapped out.
ReplyDeleteI've loved reading these! You blew me away, again and again, with how much big thinking and how much truth you could pack into seventeen syllables. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAnd should I admit that one of the first things that popped into my head this morning, after waking, was, "I don't have to write a poem today!"
Ah, and what comes next… thanks for your month of haiku's!
ReplyDeleteI thoroughly enjoyed your honed haiku craft this month, Mary Lee. The poignancy of your poems transcend their size/syllable count.
ReplyDeleteI sort of wish I picked only one form and improved my craft over the month rather than trying 30 different forms, but at the same time, I discovered some new forms I wouldn't have otherwise, so there's that.
Loved being a reader of your NPM brilliance. Thank you! :)
HAH! That's honestly about right.
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