Line Three of the Progressive Poem

Welcome to day three of National Poetry Month. I hope you'll join in on all the fun. Jama Rattigan has a giant list of  poetry happenings.

Today we're celebrating with line three of Irene Latham's 2017 Kidlitosphere Progressive Poem.

Line 1 from Heidi:

I'm fidget, friction, ragged edges--

Line 2 from Tabatha:

I sprout stories that frazzle-dazzle

Hmm. Tabatha wasn't ready to rhyme, but I'm feeling a leaning in that direction. Have you looked at your rhyming dictionary today? Not many options for edges or dazzle! So, I'm opting for a little slant rhyme. 

Here's line 3:

stories of castles, of fires that crackle

So far we have

I'm fidget, friction, ragged edges--
I sprout stories that frazzle-dazzle,

stories of castles, of fires that crackle

And now line four from Michelle to see what happens next.

April

1 Heidi at my juicy little universe
2 Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference
3 Doraine at Dori Reads
4 Michelle at Today's Little Ditty
5 Diane at Random Noodling
6 Kat at Kat's Whiskers
7 Irene at Live Your Poem
8 Mary Lee at A Year of Reading
9 Linda at TeacherDance
10 Penny at blog-a- penny-and- her-jots
11 Ramona at Pleasures from the Page
12 Janet F. at Live Your Poem
13 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
14 Jan at Bookseedstudio
15 Brenda at Friendly Fairy Tales
16 Joy at Poetry for Kids Joy
17 Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect
18 Buffy at Buffy's Blog
19 Pat at Writer on a Horse
20 BJ at Blue Window
21 Donna at Mainely Write
22 Jone at Jone Ruch MacCulloch
23 Ruth at There's No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town
24 Amy at The Poem Farm
25 Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge
26 Renee at No Water River
27 Matt at Radio, Rhythm and Rhyme
28 Michelle at Michelle Kogan
29 Charles at Poetry Time
30 Laura Purdie Salas at Writing the World for Kids

Progressive Poem 2016

One of my favorite National Poetry Month traditions is the Progressive Poem that weaves its way through the Kidlitosphere. It's the brain child of Irene Latham at Live Your Poem, but each of us who contributes a line considers it our own corporate pot luck poem. And just like a pot luck progressive dinner, you never know what you're going to get. 

Here is the poem so far with my line added. Read the next delicious line from Diane at Random Noodling. 

                A squall of hawk wings stirs the sky

                A hummingbird holds and then hies

A nature poem needs a person to be present, observe, daydream, imagine. So...

                A squall of hawk wings stirs the sky

                A hummingbird holds and then hies         

                If I could fly, I'd choose to be

And I pass this along to Diane for the choosing!

Follow along with us on the journey. 

April

1  Laura at

Writing the World for Kids

2  Joy at Joy

Acey

3  Doraine at

Dori Reads

4  Diane at

Random Noodling

5  Penny at A

Penny and Her Jots

6  Carol at

Beyond LiteracyLink

7  Liz at

Elizabeth Steinglass

8  Janet F.

at Live Your Poem

9  Margaret

at Reflections

on the Teche

10 Pat at

Writer on a Horse

11  Buffy at

Buffy's Blog

12  Michelle

at Today's Little

Ditty

13  Linda at

TeacherDance

14  Jone at

Deo Writer

15  Matt at

Radio, Rhythm and

Rhyme

16  Violet at

Violet Nesdoly

17  Kim at

Flukeprints

18  Irene at

Live Your Poem

19  Charles

at http://www.charleswaterspoetry.com/#!blog/c16qh">Poetry Time

20  Ruth at

There

is No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town

21  Jan at

Bookseedstudio

22  Robyn at

Life on the Deckle

Edge

23  Ramona at

Pleasures from

the Page

24  Amy at

The Poem Farm

25  Mark at

Jackett Writes

26  Renee at

No Water River

27  Mary Lee

at Poetrepository

28  Heidi at

My Juicy Little

Universe

29  Sheila at

Sheila Renfro

30  Donna at

Mainely Write

2015 Progressive Poem

Welcome to my favorite National Poetry Month activity, dreamed up and monitored by the lovely Irene Latham! 

I love the progressive poem, the way each day a new poet wrestles a line from his or her interior journey, fixes a string of words onto the last, and waits to see how thoughts so simple, so individual, transform the whole, while at the same time are transformed themselves by this living, breathing poem.

This little mermaid slipping through bayou is just too safe and tranquil for me, so let's infuse a little intrigue! Maybe she'll wish for a net. I'm handing this off to Renée at No Water River to see what happens next. 

She lives without a net, walking along the alluvium of the delta.
Shoes swing over her shoulder, on her bare feet stick jeweled flecks of dark mica.

Hands faster than fish swing at the ends of bare brown arms. Her hair flows,
snows in wild wind as she digs in the indigo varnished handbag,

pulls out her grandmother’s oval cuffed bracelet,
strokes the turquoise stones, and steps through the curved doorway.

Tripping on her tail she slips hair first down the slide… splash!
She glides past glossy water hyacinth to shimmer with a school of shad,

listens to the ibises roosting in the trees of the cypress swamp–
an echo of Grandmother’s words, still fresh in her windswept memory.

Born from the oyster, expect the pearl.
Reach for the rainbow reflection on the smallest dewdrop.

The surface glistens, a shadow slips above her head, a paddle dips

Follow the progress below:


1 Jone at Check it Out

2 Joy at Poetry for Kids Joy

3 Heidi at My Juicy Little Universe

4 Laura at Writing the World for Kids

5 Charles at Poetry Time Blog

6 Ramona at Pleasures from the Page

7 Catherine at Catherine Johnson

8 Irene at Live Your Poem

9 Mary Lee at Poetrepository

10 Michelle at Today’s Little Ditty

11 Kim at Flukeprints

12 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche

13 Doraine at DoriReads

14 Renee at No Water River

15 Robyn at Life on the Deckle Edge

16 Ruth at There is No Such Thing as a Godforsaken Town

17 Buffy at Buffy’s Blog

18 Sheila at Sheila Renfro

19 Linda at Teacher Dance

20 Penny at A Penny and her Jots

21 Tara at A Teaching Life

22 Pat at Writer on a Horse

23 Tamera at The Writer’s Whimsy

24 Tricia at The Miss Rumphius Effect

25 Tabatha at The Opposite of indifference

26 Brian at Walk the Walk

27 Jan at Bookseedstudio

28 Amy at The Poem Farm

29 Donna at Mainely Write

30 Matt at Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme