Welcome to Poetry Friday. I am hosting so please leave your links in the comments and I will post.
My aunt, my mentor, passed away on Sunday. She lived a full life at 91 and had been ill since last fall. We talked weekly and I will miss that. This week, this poem by Jane Kenyon has been on my mind:
Let the light of late afternoon
shine through chinks in the barn, moving
up the bales as the sun moves down.
Let the cricket take up chafing
as a woman takes up her needles
and her yarn. Let evening come.
Let dew collect on the hoe abandoned
in long grass. Let the stars appear
and the moon disclose her silver horn.
Read the rest of the poem HERE.
I am putting this up early for those early birds. Please leave your links in the comments. I will put them up through out the day.
Today we have originals:
Gotta Book is “Sleeping In”
Poem Farm “First Grade Poets”
Laura Salas “15 Words or Less” poems
Gathering Books “A Girl Name Alice”
Wild Rose Reader “Rhubarb”
 A tribute to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at The BALD EGO Blog
A poem inspired by one of Father Goose’s son’s ink drawings at The FATHER GOOSE Blog
Some Blues:
Tabatha Yeats “I Ain’t Broke, But I’m Bad Bent”
Some fabulous poems:
Dori Reads “The Oven Bird”
Across the Page “Robins”
Laura Salas “Summer”
Literate Lives “Emma Dilemma”
Charlottes Library “Mother Goose”
Kurious Kitty Tongue twister poemsÂ
Kurious K’s Kwotes’ P.F. quote is by William Blake
My Juicy Little Universe “On the Menu for School Today”
Janet Squires “Falling Down the Page”
Karen Edmisten Potpourri of poems
Father’s Day Tributes and Other Celebrations:
Carol’s Corner “Thinking about My Dad”
Ruth “Those Winter Sundays”
Jama Rattigan “Like Father Like Son”
The Stenhouse Blog “Dressing My Daugthers”
Debbie Diller “The Gift”
A Year of Reading “Happy Birthday Mom”Â
The Write Sisters Celebrating Sir Paul’s Birthday
Poetry Thoughts, Announcements, and Reviews:
Blythe Woolston “Doggerel: Constraint and Play”
Secrets and Sharing Soda Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie
Robyn Hood Black “Poetry Retreat and Wolves”
Random Noodling “Kids of the Homefront Army” A New BlogÂ
Picture Books and Piroutte Highlights Magazine “Summer Dance”
Jeanine Atkins Frost Place and Other Wonders of New Hampshire”
I’ll return later for new additions. UPDATE: After 8 PM (PST), it’s been a long day…end of school year and my email was hacked. I think I got everyone and apologize if I met someone.
I love the ‘sound’ the words make as your read the poem. I suppose this is one poem that’s lovely heard than just read.
Here’s our poetry friday post….early birds i guess…
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/poetry-friday-a-girl-named-alice/
thanks for hosting. 🙂
Hi. Very sorry to hear about your Aunt. =( I love the poem that you shared. Truly beautiful and haunting.
Here is the link for our Contribution for Poetry Friday over at GatheringBooks:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/poetry-friday-a-girl-named-alice/
I’m up with an original called Sleeping In!
http://gottabook.blogspot.com/2011/06/sleeping-in-sleep-poema-sleeping-late.html
Not that I will be tomorrow, but one day, I tell ya… one day!
Thanks for hosting, Jone.
I’m sorry for your loss, Jone. That’s a wonderful poem-tribute.
I’ve got the blues this week: http://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/2011/06/i-aint-broke-but-im-bad-bent.html
Thanks for hosting.
Hi Jone–Thanks for hosting!
Let Evening Come is one of my favorites. So much strength and beauty and peace. I’m sorry to hear about your aunt–this is a lovely dedication to her.
I’m in with a piece of “Summer,” by Barney Saltzerg at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/279871.html
And I’ve got 15 Words or Less poems (everyone’s welcome to come play) at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/279618.html
Laura
Thanks for hosting, Jane. Lovely poem by Kenyon.
Here is mine, The Oven Bird by Robert Frost.
http://dorireads.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-oven-bird.html
Good morning, Jone. The Jane Kenyon poem is one I’ll add to my thin file of poems that might be “enough” to mark the passing of those we love. Thanks for that, and thanks for hosting while grieving.
Today I’m saying goodbye too…
http://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/todays-menu.html
Jone, I love this poem. A beautiful tribute. So sorry about your loss.
I’m in with a Father’s Day poem. My dad has been gone 15 years and I still miss him.
http://carolwscorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/thinking-of-my-dad-this-week.html
I’m so sorry to hear about your aunt’s passing, may you find comfort in your memories.
At Random Noodling I’m announcing my newest blog, Kids of the Homefront Army: Poems of WW II America. Please visit both!
Kurious Kitty looks at tongue-twister poems. Kurious K’s Kwotes’ P.F. quote is by William Blake.
I’m sorry for your loss. The Jane Kenyon poem is lovely — I can see why it would be on your mind.
I have a post about robins, with an Emily Dickinson poem:
http://www.acrossthepage.net/2011/06/poetry-friday-robins/
I am sorry for your loss; may you find some comfort in favorite poems like the one you share here.
Today I have a poem and photo pair as well as a peek inside a first grade classroom full of poets.
http://poemfarm.blogspot.com/2011/06/ballerina-and-first-grade-poetry-peek.html
Thank you for hosting.
A.
Jone,
Such a lovely poem. I’m sorry about your loss.
Thanks so much for hosting today.
Here is a post about big sister / little sister relationships – Emma Dilemma – http://literatelives.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-emma-dilemma.html
Yesterday was my mom’s 84th birthday. My poem and post are in celebration of her: http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-happy-birthday-mom.html
There are still a few slots open on the July-December round up schedule:
http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-you-are-there.html
I have Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” in honor of Father’s Day. Thank you for hosting. Poetry is often a great comfort for me and I hope it will be for you, too.
The Kenyon poem is a tender way to remember the one you love.
Thank you for sharing that, and thank you for hosting this week.
Today I have some thoughts about Doggerel: Constraint and Play
http://blythewoolston.blogspot.com/2011/06/constraint-and-play-for-poetryfriday.html
Oops, forgot my link! Here it is: here.
Sorry to hear about your aunt, Jone. The Kenyon poem is beautiful.
Today I’m celebrating Paul McCartney’s birthday and Father’s Day: http://jamarattigan.livejournal.com/549895.html.
Thanks for hosting!
Beautiful poem. I’m sorry for your loss. Here is my Poetry Friday for this week, a review of Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie by Julie Sternberg. http://sharingsoda.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-9-review-like-pickle.html
Thanks for hosting!
I have a poem for Father’s Day on my blog this Friday. Enjoy!
http://debbiediller.wordpress.com/2011/06/17/poetry-friday-the-gift/
Happy Father’s Day to everyone! And happy Poetry Friday from the Stenhouse Blog!
http://blog.stenhouse.com/archives/2011/06/17/poetry-friday-dressing-my-daughters
Thanks for hosting!
I’m in with Mother Goose Picture Puzzles, by Will Hillenbrand. http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2011/06/mother-goose-picture-puzzles-by-will.html
thanks.
i’ve got an original, true story poem this week called “special delivery.”
thanks for hosting!
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So sorry for your loss, and what a lovely tribute. This week I have a little recap of our poetry retreat with Rebecca Kai Dotlich and an original poem about working with wolves. They relate – kinda! http://www.robynhoodblack.com/blog.htm?post=795488
Joan,
I’m so sorry for your loss. The Jane Kenyon poem you posted today is the one that I read at the funeral of my father-in-law.
At Wild Rose Reader, I have an original memoir poem titled “Rhubarb.” It’s about my maternal grandmother, rhubarb, and spending time on a summer day with two of my cousins when I was a kid.
http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2011/06/rhubarb-original-memoir-poem.html
Jone,
Sorry I misspelled your name in my previous comment!
Jone, I’m so glad you had your aunt for such a long time!
The Write Sisters are also celebrating Sir Paul’s birthday. Check it out here: http://thewritesisters.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-happy-birthday-to-sir.html
The poem you posted is so quiet and beautiful. I’m so sorry to hear about your loss.
The poem I’m sharing today is not quiet at all. It’s from the children’s magazine Highlights High Five, to help children ring in the summer with a dance…
http://kerryaradhya.blogspot.com/2011/06/summer-dance-from-highlights-high-five.html
Thanks for hosting! Here’s a link to a fantastic poem “Frog and Toad Confront the Alterity of Otherness”: http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2011/06/17/poetry-friday-best-poem-ever/
Jone, I’m sorry about your aunt and mentor. Glad for the wisdom of Jane Kenyon and the inspiration she found in New Hampshire farmland and woods. I wrote about a visit to the Frost Place in NH, where poets keep on writing. http://jeannineatkins.livejournal.com/163205.html
Dear Jone,
So sorry to hear about your aunt. I know she must have been very proud of you and your family.
Thank you for hosting all of us today. I have two new poems for the group.
A tribute to Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at The BALD EGO Blog and a poem inspired by one of my son’s ink drawings at The FATHER GOOSE Blog
All best wishes,
Charles
Thanks for hosting.
My selection is “Falling Down the Page” — an anthology of list poems edited by Georgia Heard.
Hi,
I’m so sorry about your aunt. May she rest in peace.
I love Jane Kenyon so! Thanks for that.
My link for this week is:
http://karenedmisten.blogspot.com/2011/06/poetry-friday-potpourri-william-carlos.html
Thanks for hosting!
Jone, wondered if you could please double check the link to my post in your roundup list. Doesn’t seem to access the post.
Thanks!!
jama
Hi Jama, I got it fixed. Cheers, Jone Jone Rush MacCulloch, NBCT ~ Library Media http://deowriter.wordpress.com (personal blog) https://maclibrary.wordpress.com (school blog) http://deowriter.blogspot.com (photo blog) “The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.” -Pablo Casals
Whoops! The title of the book I reviewed is Like Pickle Juice on a Cookie. It looks like it got a little mixed up with the name of my blog!
A little late … but thank you for hosting.
This weekend is full of mixed emotions – I lost my dad to cancer 15 years ago, but now I get to watch my husband love our baby boy to pieces. Some of my favorite memories happened around our dinner table – with Chef Dad preparing the feast!
Here is my link for the week:
http://literacycoachyear.blogspot.com/p/poetry-friday.html
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