Today's Little Ditty

  Beverly Cleary (April 12, 1916 – March 25, 2021)      “Come on, Mama!” urged Ramona, pausing in her singing and skipping. “We don’t want t...

"Wish Upon a Star" by Anne Worner There is something about poems that is like loving children: They keep returning home and singin...

congerdesign "You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket."               – John Adams, in a letter to his son John ...

THE GAME OF GETTING LOST Under the palms and banana leaves along the winding trails, I ran ahead of my mom and dad and found myself a...

GAMES OF HOPSCOTCH In the days of innocence and Eisenhower, most girls would play their games of hopscotch. Jay-walking to a vacant l...

"Clover gleefully basks in the afternoon sun." — Evan Long May the lilt of Irish laughter lighten every load. ...

Bill Selak Welcome to this month's game-a-thon, inspired by Tabatha Yeatts . Earlier this week , I posted a quote from philos...

Brian Wolfe If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. – Toni Morrison    from Song of Solomon

Thanks to Karen Boss I feel like I've been celebrating this book's arrival for the last month, but today's the day it fina...

poetry2capullet "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."                     –Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter ...

RISK IT You want a band-aid. What’s it for? It won’t heal hurts. It’s something more. This blister on your hand’s a scar from conquer...

RACE TOWARD GOALS Do you race toward goals with giant leaps, bounding over small obstacles, scaling tall walls, ignoring distractions...

CALLING ALL KIDS Inside of you: dreams, ideas, potential. Wildness, maybe. Athletic skills, eyes that show your hands what to draw, m...

TURN THE WORLD ON ITS HEAD: A REVERSO The world might say: Look, inside, I know you have ideas, observations, opinions— Wait your tur...

Yuliya Libkina WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR Hold it loosely,           say goodbye,                         let it go— (it’s fine to...

WHEN YOU BEGIN (A Skinny Poem) You will discover pals. Ignore seeing mean-spirited glares. Ignore hearing put-down scorn. Ignore. Pal...

TEACH US With one step from darkness into the light, you can teach us. You can make us see why. You left your country riding on your ...

A KID FOREVER MORE Be a kid right now, this minute– Nuh-uh you say, you wanna be like everyone else, all grown up. But now’s the time...