Hello, Poetry Friday! On the one hand:
On the other hand: tomorrow's #FridaysForFuture global climate
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Thanks for being here with me and our host Laura Purdie Salas at Writing the World for Kids, where she and the Poetry Sisters are tank(a)ing away inspired by each other's previous works. I love the collaborative circular iterations this creates!
Heidi, you are really on full blast! I love it! "Raises eyebrows, reproaches those eyebrows" and "persevering through every insanity, every surprise of space weather" with that great ending.
ReplyDeleteOoh, I love that hardworking title and your imagination, Heidi! Plus I'm kind of in love with "hot notch." Brava! xo
ReplyDeleteI'm going with the "amateur tourist astronauts", Heidi, surely they (you?) hold more interesting body fluids? Every day, a new twist to talk about! Well done all!
ReplyDeleteOnly you could use "hella/bodily fluids" in a poem to such great effect. Blood, sweat, and tears for sure. As for the acrostic, a big YES to the K line.
ReplyDeleteThis is superb. Yeah, we all have hella bodily fluids that could be useful here. I read "jolly little/ domed resorts for one" and cackled. And I love the strike as "strictly symbolic," and yet "interrogates ignorance, increases impetus." Big amens to that.
ReplyDeleteI am flabbergasted, and something about those bellied pods and the knife...wow. You really transformed this news story into something so fresh!
ReplyDeleteDang. I want to hear you Slam your astronaut poem. Like preach it!
ReplyDeleteI'm following you around the Poetry Friday planet, as I so often do, leaving comments. An amazing collection again today! The longer I live the more convinced I am that it's ALL about the bodily fluids.
ReplyDeleteThis line: "Kicks it up a hot notch, keeps kids centered", I thought of you yesterday as the news reported the action of high school students here for #climatestrike.
ReplyDeleteThe musings of using astronaut fluids especially after teaching kindred pandemic style made me smile.
Heidi, your Astronaut poem grabbed and shook me by the collar. Bodily fluids as a valuable asset, yes. It reminds me of all the excreted mucous from a toddler's nose. As a friend once remarked- there must be some use for all of that. Your Strike poem is equally imposing with its alliterative lines and its hint of quiet subversive action. I am wide awake now and ready for anything!
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha! My first reaction to bodily fluids. Can't help it. I'm in middle school. Then that last word...tears. My goodness What a train of thought. What a packed punch in your poem. The C-sections, the holding it while teaching...all that isn't actually funny.
ReplyDeleteAnd, your line, "kicks it up a hot notch." Love it.
I love the astronaut poem - how you've taken the idea the article talked about and personalized it, all building up to that powerhouse final line. And I love the Acrostic too - the way you've echoed the letters of "STRIKE" in your word choices. Thanks for sharing these!
ReplyDeleteHeidi, I am in awe of how you took the facts of the bodily fluid article and infuse it with humor, imagination, and emotion. And I love STRIKE and all that you're doing to raise our awareness of small steps we can all take that will (hopefully) lead to big action!
ReplyDeleteHeidi, I like the way you took that space news and ran with it! The acrostic is great, too.
ReplyDeleteWow, Heidi! This poem rocks and rollicks. Love the way you put a way out there idea from the news into such a real-world poem. (No one told me before I started teaching just how much pee-control thought was involved with the job...)
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