DMC: "Winter Storm" by Janice Scully

WINTER STORM

Snowflakes bumping
gliding, crashing
down in heavy
storm-silence.

Such bough-drooping
bark-mottling
random artistry!
Watch as it leaves lacy
crystal hieroglyphs
everywhere.

© 2020 by Janice Scully. All rights reserved.


Buffy Silverman has challenged us to write a poem that uses combined or invented words. Click HERE for more details and to read this month's Spotlight ON interview.

Post your poem on our February 2020 padlet. All contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration on Friday, February 28th, and one lucky participant will win a personalized copy of her nonfiction poetry picture book from Millbrook Press:

DMC: "Spring" by Janice Scully

SPRING

It’s coming, coming
slow as snails—
See the snowdrifts melt
in tiny trails?

Each day the ice grows
weak and thin.
Go ‘round the lake,
or else fall in.

Mud on shoes
and on our floor.
Friends ride scooters
to the store.

No more coats.
Children sing.
Jump ropes thump—
It’s early Spring.

© 2018 Janice Scully. All rights reserved.


Click HERE to read this month's interview with Julie Fogliano. She has challenged us to stare out the window and write a poem about what we see. You might even consider writing something down every day for a week:

At the end of the week, read through what you wrote and write your favorite bits on a separate piece of paper. I bet there will be a poem in there somewhere… see if you can find it.  – J. F.

Leave your poem on our May 2018 padlet. While some contributions will be featured as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration on Friday, May 25th, and one lucky participant will win a personalized copy of her stunning new picture book from Roaring Brook Press:

DMC: "Beating Heart" by Janice Scully

BEATING HEART
          ~with a line from "Truth, by Tyrone Bittings"

Oh, for a
good story! A poem
with a beating heart that can
make me sob like a lonely cat, or turn
me, for a moment, into the
ancient snail, slower than the small hand of a clock,
escaping dark forces with my house on my back.

© 2018 Janice Scully. 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. While some contributions will be featured as daily ditties this month, all contributions will be included in a wrap-up celebration on Friday, March 30th, and one lucky participant will win a copy of her new companion novel to Bronx Masquerade: