Thursday, March 29, 2018

DMC: "More than Words" by Doraine Bennett




MORE THAN WORDS
          ~with a line from "Truth, by Tyrone Bittings"

The fearful thing about trust
is you must give your heart to me.


© 2018 Doraine Bennett. All rights reserved.

"Truth, by Tyrone Bittings" © 2018 Nikki Grimes, from BETWEEN THE LINES.


Click HERE to read this month's interview with Nikki Grimes. She has challenged us to write a golden shovel poem using a line from one of the poems in the post.

Leave your golden shovel on our March 2018 padlet. All contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration TOMORROW, Friday, March 30th, and one lucky participant will win a copy of her new companion novel to Bronx Masquerade:




5 comments:

  1. Oooh yeah. I loved this when I saw it on the padlet! (Along with a lot of others. :) )

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  2. Truth. Sometimes the most effective golden shovel poems are the simplest. Thank you, Doraine.

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  3. Important for us all to know and to show children, too. All that's needed to be said, Doraine.

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  4. So true, so poignantly simple, and yet so hard to do. Love this one Doraine.

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