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Prompt #18 Food
3 CommentsThis weeks prompt is Food. There are many creative ways food can be presented to children. Let’s feed their minds as well with fun creative food poems.
Please send prompt poems and any other poems to:
poemoftheday.jaxton@gmail.com
A few events coming up.
Celia one of our regulars is having a book launch in Cairns later this week.
Virginia and John Lowe have a poetry book launch in Melbourne next weekend.
Please send me information about other events you would like promoted.
And here are a few photos from our trip. Maybe I’m the only person ever to have taken Mr Snuffleupagus to the tip of Cape York. This was a highlight as well as staying in a rainforest for two nights. The sounds were amazing. We went on a day trip to Thursday Island which included a bus tour. It was very interesting. They have trade winds on Thursday Island 7 months of the year. In the afternoon it got quite windy and the trip back in the ferry was a bit Wonky Donkey. I bought a KitKat to cope with it. 🍫 I had time on the trip to write and developed an interest in Haiku and gave it a go. Echidna Tracks is a Haiku site you can join and receive one every morning. The ‘ahhh’ moment in this form of poetry appeals to me. I will put a few resources I was given up on the site in the next month.
Cheers
Jeanie
The Easter Hat Parade
Leave a commentThe Easter Hat Parade
2K has been busy
2K has had fun
making Easter bonnets
with Dad and with Mum.
We’ve spent many hours
cutting out flowers,
using cardboard and glue
and crepe paper too.
Some hats are like bunnies
with ears floppy and funny,
Others have eggs and chicks,
with colours all sunny.
So put on your hats,
tie up the bow.
Your magnificent creations
make a marvellous show.
Vanessa Proctor
Things I love about Christmas
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Things I love about Christmas
For Natalie
Christmas is my favourite time,
the best part of the year,
it’s when we get to celebrate,
our hearts so full of cheer.
I love Christmas stories,
I love Christmas songs,
I love Carols in the Park
where we can sing along.
I love the Christmas table
with its cloth of red and gold,
crackers, candles, fresh pine trees
from deep forests of old.
I love to wrap the presents,
put one beneath the wishing tree,
I love decorations and all the lights
sparkling down on me.
I love the magic of Christmas Eve,
leaving Santa his milk and mince pies,
some carrots for his reindeer
who soar down from the skies.
On Christmas morning I awake
to think of the baby come from above,
remembering why we do it all
because of love, love, love.
Vanessa Proctor
Poem of the Day
Leave a commentA Jar of Pickles
I had a jar of pickles,
but they were very fickle.
I had to go in for a quick kill,
but couldn’t get them out
without a fierce rout.
Firmly wedged inside the jar
they wouldn’t budge a bar
until I tried a tickle
then out they poured in a trickle
that fickle jar of pickles.
Vanessa Proctor
- Submitted in response to Poetry Prompt #32
Poem of the Day
3 CommentsToday’s poem was runner up in the 13th Kathleen Julia Bates Memorial Writing Competition.
Looking at the Moon through Binoculars
Perfectly round
the moon comes into focus,
luminous, haloed,
almost close enough to touch.
In this lunar landscape
there are mountains, craters
highlands and valleys,
the Sea of Tranquility,
the Ocean of Storms.
Three days’ journey
catapulted through
the blackness of space
past comets, stars
and satellites to reach
my destination.
I’d land on the bright side
of the moon,
my boots sinking into
silvery dust, soft like snow,
I’d jump over moon rocks,
check for signs of life,
then I’d turn to face the earth,
blue and green and beautiful
and I would wave.
Vanessa Proctor
Poem of the Day
2 CommentsThe night sky
fills with the shrieks
of flying foxes,
street lights
cast strange shadows
and the last ferry
blinks across the harbour,
the tide lap-lapping
the foreshore,
as the city stretches,
then curls in
upon itself.
Vanessa Proctor
Through the Looking Glass
Volume V Issue I, March 2016
