Two years ago, I was practicing writing list poems. Here’s one of my mediocre efforts. I have hundreds of poems like Autumn--poems that I’ll probably never see published anywhere but my blog. Still, I find that working on such pieces is like doing poetry calisthenics. It helps pump up my writing muscles. There are times, however, when I revisit old poems like Autumn and find a kernel of something I like in them that I can rework into a different and a better poem.AUTUMN
by Elaine Magliaro
Crickets sighing
Birds goodbying
Pumpkins growing plump and round
Apple picking
Football kicking
Chestnuts thudding on the ground
Bright leaves falling
Wild geese calling
Honeybees huddling in their hive
Trick-or-treating
Turkey eating
Winter’s waiting to arrive
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At Blue Rose Girls, I have a Poetry Friday post with two poems by Sherman Alexie in honor of Native American Heritage Month.
Jone has the Poetry Friday Roundup at Check It Out.
Jone has the Poetry Friday Roundup at Check It Out.
Great poem as always, Elaine. I especially like the first two stanzas, wonderful imagery!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Linda. I've been so busy in recent days, I haven't had much time to spend on blogging. Last night, I dug through my old poems hoping to find something I could post for Poetry Friday.
ReplyDeleteThis is lovely. I especially like the "birds goodbying." :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jama. Autumn is my favorite season. Lots of the trees here still have their leaves--and the temperatures have been really mild.
ReplyDeleteyou forgot:
ReplyDeletepigeons homing
Poets poming
great poem, Elaine
douglas florian
Thank you, Douglas! Glad you stopped by. I guess I should get back to work and do some more poming.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your poming with us!
ReplyDeleteMary Lee,
ReplyDeleteI was so wrapped up with the presidential campaign, watching the news, and reading political blogs in recent weeks that I really haven't done much poming. I guess it's time I went looking for my muse again.
That's better than mediocre, Elaine! And how funny that Douglas Florian stopped by, because I was going to say this had the feel of a Florian poem to me!
ReplyDeleteP.S. Forgot to say that the first stanza's my favorite. And that I completely agree...all our poems that never get published ARE calisthenics (fun ones). And we do sometimes find the kernel of something fabulous in those exercises. I love it when that happens.
ReplyDeleteLaura,
ReplyDeleteThanks. I really haven't done much writing of children's poems lately--only political verse. I guess now that the election is in the past I can get back to working on one of my manuscripts that I put aside for way too long.