Bird Tree

A bird with
its feathers
as leaves

feeding her
young

on the
stump of a
tree

Ted kooser on metaphor

an interview

pg 11 has Abandoned Farmhouse poem by Ted Kooser and the poem that influenced him - The Listeners 

Walter de la Mare 1912

Scented pencil box

Reading of Baby Scentsations in parenting magazine, I am reminded of a green pencil box which was scented. I got it as a gift for an essay on United nations.

Poetic exercises

Write a syllabic poem. This is from Ted Kooser's 'The Poetry Home Repair Manual'. ted Kooser writes that Frost's Stopping by woods on a snowy evening is written in a form. In the article Mark Richardson defines 'what a poem describes—its content; what it has in mind—its theme; and how it holds together—its form.'

Another:
Write a paragraph about a poem you have written, to an editor. In the explanation I have found a good ending to an incomplete poem.

Weather

We see 28C on
the thermometer magnet
Dad says its cooler
than that
Maybe its not working
We check later
Its 15C

Its working

Its funny that its
on the refrigerator
whose insides are lot lower
than the room temperature
that the magnet shows.

Exercise: Write a poem on any instrument that fascinated you as a child - stethescope, weighing machine, compass, windvane, any others? On your coveted posession.

Tot poetry on the rise

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A dream visit to the pediatrecian

There are a few
experiments on the wall
written here and there

There are many people
around like its a
fast food joint
-hard to find all the
to -dos

You jot down the baby's
reactions from each of
the exercises

when its your turn
the doctor interprets
the results

Why is it so
complicated?

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Must have been the result of a disney theme memory book uptil five year age for the baby, which had a column for baby's reaction to each of the vaccinations.