National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.30

one month, thirty days

seventeen syllable rut

ready for a change

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

Happy end of National Poetry Month! Matt has this week's Poetry Friday roundup at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme.

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.29

antiracism

it's urgent, not optional

sacrifice comfort

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

Found haiku while listening to Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul speak at the NCTE member gathering.

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.28

playground drama

duck nest under the slide

brave mama

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

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summer in a jar

basil, parmesan, garlic

tastebud time travel

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

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just strolling along

big leather feet flap flapping

parking lot goose

©Mary Lee Hahn

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.25

we turned a corner

(the redbuds are leafing out)

over there -- summer

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.24

one slip

I guess the knife is still sharp

blood mixes with onions

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.23 and Poetry Friday

car changes color

maroon with a glaze of gold

oak pollen season

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

Catherine has this week's Poetry Friday Roundup at Reading to the Core.

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.22

 

nature teaches us

expect the unexpected

snow in late April

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.21

when will justice be

expected immutable

like rock not spring snow

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.20

How do you pack a

decades-long friendship into

a three-line haiku?

Committees, roadtrips,

Twitter, blog, NCTE,

breakfast at NorthStar.

Happy Birthday, Friend!

You continue to inspire

and to make us laugh.

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.19

 

quanto basta

as much as you need

spring garden

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.18

suddenly there's shade

branches with buds subitize

shadows gain substance

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.17

old trees make new leaves

bark is rough but roots are strong

spring becomes summer

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

Poetry Friday -- Three for Earth Day

 

When will we decide

to stop squandering our home?
We act like there's time.

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

Nowhere Else to Go

by Linda Sue Park

via Poetry Foundation

Go read Linda Sue Park's poem. I'll wait.             There. You understand now why I couldn't excerpt it, right? You need to read all the way to that powerful last line, which sends you back to the title, and then down through the poem again. 

This was our Weekly Poem for this past week. Our routine goes like this: on the first day, I just read the poem.  My students follow along on the share screen, but we don't talk about the poem. Just read it and let it start soaking in. Then, each day after that, we dig deeper into what we notice about the words, the shape, the craft. Finally, towards the end of the week, we get to possible meanings.  It took most of the week, but they totally got this one. Got what Linda Sue Park was doing with the clues at the beginning and that last line that sends you back to the title.

The Last Straw: Kids vs. Plastics

by Susan Hood

Illustrated by Christiane Engel

HarperCollins, 2021

An introduction by Milo Cress, founder of BeStrawFree.org

17 poems

Facts on every page

Fabulous illustrations and quotes

Scientists and children from around the world working on the problem of plastic

AND

An author's note

A timeline

"Sources and More" to go with every poem/topic (great websites!!)

AND

Poetry notes about the forms used in each of the poems

PLUS

"For Further Reading"

Jama has this week's Poetry Friday Roundup at Jama's Alphabet Soup. 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.15

ask those hard questions

spotlight inequalities

then make good trouble

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.14

 

white privilege abounds

black lives matter on yard signs

and I write haiku

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.13

 

we teach the wrong things:

task completion, not passion

test taking, not joy

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

We've got seven weeks left, and I'm focusing as much as possible on passion and joy. Our newest fun: about 1/4 of the class is learning a new language using the DuoLingo app. 

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.11

 

after the cold snap

glorious magnolias

wear brown in mourning

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021

National Poetry Month: #haikudiary.10

 

illumination

sun shines through dirty windows

with no prejudice

©Mary Lee Hahn, 2021