This year Jone and Joy have led us into the wild in so many interesting ways. These long lines defy regular meter, don't demand rhyme, and give us a whole delta to explore. I''m fascinated by the "she" who roams it, shoeless and netless. Let her fend for herself,
let her body be one with the landscape...
She lives without a net, walking along the alluvium deposits 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
I see that my blogwidth is not enough to contain these lines; can we break them for today? Then it looks like this, and what is changed, do you think?
She lives without a net,
walking along the alluvium deposits 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
Tomorrow Laura PS at Writing the World for Kids continues the poem, and I bet her blog is wide enough to hold the flow. Not to get sedimental, but I just love this big ol' collaboration of poets...Go Us!
Follow along each day to see how our poem grows, and join Amy at The Poem Farm for a singable round-up this first Poetry Friday of National Poetry Month!
2015 Kidlitosphere
Progressive Poem
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
