A Year of Reading

Imagine the silent bubble of April twirling over garden,  over nest. Follow. ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019

my balance calls I slowly return home  the glorious next ©Mary Lee Hahn, 2019 Hem is sad to see Poetry Month drawi...

Today's challenge: One randomly drawn prompt and one randomly drawn paint chip. The Key to Happiness: Some Food for Thought ...

Found Squirrels nip the tips off branches. You can tell because the cut is slanted. The size of oak's leaves has doubled ...

A Lazy Symphony so much depends upon a delicate spring moment languid with sweet beauty a lazy symphony of flowers ©Mary...

And Then on Top of Everything Else (a teacher's rant) Let's set the stage-- the calendar page hasn't turned to May yet...

We added a new member to our garden family on Earth Day. Welcome, Cranberry Viburnum! Nature's first green is sometimes red! I...

A jumble of memories Uncle Bob was not my uncle. He was my dad's cousin, but the closest thing to family we had. He also was not ...

I count baby oak leaves among the cutest of spring's babies. It's hard to imagine that these fragile fingertip-length leaves wil...

Flickr Creative Commons Photo   To Make a Forest, After Emily Dickinson To make a forest it takes one spring and eternity, The deli...

For Franki, On Her Birthday You are an unspoken blessing to the teaching profession. Your advocacy is a not-so-silent promise that all...

Springtime Alarm Clock Supposedly, time is a gentle songbird, but someone forgot to tell the robin outside my window in the predawn ...

After the Fire The images of smoke and ash spread from screen to screen around the globe. As the loss of an ancient cultural treasu...

The classroom stuffed animals wanted to get in on the Haikube scene. Why should Hem and Rhino have all the fun? On the left is the hams...

Spring's Yellow Spring's yellow follows winter's  blue bringing  pink  peace. ©Mary Lee Ha...

Poetry is a Burning Blessing your pen -- the matchstick; ideas -- tinder, kindling, fuel; poetry -- the fire ©Mary Le...

I Went to the Mexican Store I saw rainbow vegetables. But the best part was a pepper reading a book! ©1st Grade, 2019 ...

Pink Piglets in a Pen You think I'm dirty. I DO love rolling in mud but I bathe in hay. ©2nd Grade, 2019 ...

The second grade team at my school has invited me to visit their classes as the "Visiting Poet" for their Poetry Month poetry ...

Hem didn't come running when I dumped the Haikubes tonight, so Rhino and I worked alone. Our haiku might not seem very flattering...