Wow! What a weekend! Things have been just hopping around here! So, I don’t think I mentioned earlier that my daughter, Dot, has chosen to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She has been called to serve in the Mexico Mexico City South Mission – we are so excited for her and preparations have been fun, busy and a little crazy wild at times! (Like an unexpected jaunt up to Detroit… 4+ hours away)
This Saturday she went to the temple and it was absolutely wonderful in every way. Consequently, that filled our day and we had grandparents visiting from Utah which filled subsequent days and I got behind on my poems. So here are the past several days worth of poems (with links to the how to!)
A lot of these are just silly kids’ poems, but they tend to be my favorite kind!
Day 13
we did Triplets– you can read about them HERE This poem was inspired by my daughter, Dot (her middle name is not Rose), who really did get a rock stuck up her nose – but she stuck it there herself (and not with her toes). She was probably about 4 or 5 and we were in the Wendy’s drive through when she started hollering about a rock in her nose. I hopped out and opened the side door, pushed on the empty nostril and told her to blow & out it popped! lol
Woes of the Nose
by Julia Wagner
Jimmy, how do you suppose
Sweet little Dorothy Rose
Got a rock stuck in her nose?
It wasn’t me! I oppose!
I was washing my elbows.
I bet she picked it with her toes.
Day 14
we did Couplets– you can read about them HERE. I did two….
Turtle Troubles
by Julia Wagner
I wonder how my turtle
wound up in Grandma’s girdle?
After the Rain
by Julia Wagner
After Spring’s clouds and showers
Earth dons her robe of flowers.
Day 15
we learned about the Tyburn. You can read about it HERE. This was totally new to me and a really fun challenge!
Speedster
by Julia Wagner
Funky
Spunky
Junky
Clunky
Classy cruiser, funky spunky sped,
Now it sputters, junky, clunky, dead.
Day 16
we did a Windspark poem – a kind of fill in the blank poem. You can read about it HERE. I did this one right after writing the previous poems, so I still had rhyming in my brain, so this silly little ditty popped out:
A Frog’s Life
by Julia Wagner
I dreamed
I was a frog
Nestled in a bog
Hopping from log to log
Gleefully
Day 17
Today!!! We did Haiku– specifically a poiku, which you can read about HERE. I just did traditional haiku because my poetry brain was starting to die
April
by Julia Wagner
Month of weeping clouds
bleeding hearts, forget-me-nots
hope grows with flowers
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