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I truly think those words are a poem. Thank you for reminding me of them!

I don't have a link for you, but I wanted to say

1. HI!!
2. Glad you're back! and
3. What a lovely library/sitting room. :)

Hope you're settled in and happy and that Cell Phone Yelling Man has not made a return, or if he has, that it's at least been amusing.

Beautiful blog, Sara! Your words here touch a chord in all who write. Happy house warming!

Thank you for allowing me to share my "Drum Beats" with you and all of our blogging buddies at The FATHER GOOSE Blog

Welcome back! My books are still all in boxes, but I finished one revision and have started another one that can only be called a rewrite-and-change-the-genre. The books are GOING IN THIS WEEKEND, though.

I love the last picture - three varicolored women unironically posing in front of a MLK, Jr. quotation. Hallelujah, amen.

Welcome back! I admit being a bit jealous of your Gary Schmidt interaction. I was too busy to get to National Book Festival this time, and was really only debating it to see him! Though Sondy did tell him my story about Okay for Now, so that helped.

Thank you for hosting, Sara! And for sharing such wonderful aspects of your new home city with us. Your wake-up-bird might like my post - it's a celebration of his kind, with a poem by Linda Pastan:

http://www.robynhoodblack.com/blog.htm?post=814762

Glad you're well and settled into your new library and blogging. Also glad to hear about that YA novel coming along.

What a beautiful post! I loved reading through it. And welcome back to the world of blogging.

This is our contribution for Poetry Friday:
http://gatheringbooks.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/poetry-friday-the-ties-that-bind-in-gemino-abads-poetry/

I am rather new to poetry Friday, but love your new room/library. I imagine you do, too. I'm looking forward to reading more from you. I wrote a bit about saying goodbye this time, and I guess you've lately had lots of experience with endings and goodbyes. My link is http://teacherdance.blogspot.com/2011/09/endings-hold-mixed-emotions.html

I love your library. Wellcome back. My personal blog missed the summer too.
Here's my link: http://maclibrary.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/poetry-friday-marilyn-singer-and-the-cybils/

How exciting to live in such a beautiful and vibrant city--all those history museums, all that art, all those monuments! And the best part is that they are free for all to enjoy, courtesy our taxes.

At Random Noodling I have an original poem.

Kids of the Homefront Army continues with "The Oleo Kid."

Kurious Kitty shares a poem by Gail Mazur, and, Kurious K's Kwotes' has a quote by Joan Giroux.

That thought that a book might be a child's only companion will be sticking with me....as will light into darkness and love into hate. Thank you for weaving all of this together. Welcome back, welcome home, and thank you for having us over today!

At The Poem Farm, I have an original poem about time and things we "used to do."

http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/2011/09/just-like-i-used-to-do.html

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walking here with a smile. take care.. have a nice day ~ =D

Regards,
http://www.lonelyreload.com (A Growing Teenager Diary) ..

Sara, you're so right about connections. As E.M. Forster said, "Only connect."

Over at The Drift Record this week, I have links to videos about Kay Ryan and A.E. Stallings, two poets who received MacArthur Foundation grants ("genius" grants) this week. Plus I have a few words ("Please join!") about the new group, Poetry Advocates for Children and Young Adults. Here's the link:

http://julielarios.blogspot.com/2011/09/poetry-friday-rhyme-hokum-and-genius.html

Beautiful post. Thank you for hosting.

My poem is Blake's "The Sick Rose."

http://pentiment.blogspot.com/2011/09/poetry-friday-sick-rose.html

Thank you for hosting today. It is a wonderful post. I have a review of a combination of math, science, and poetry at NC Teacher Stuff:

http://ncteacherstuff.blogspot.com/2011/09/stem-and-poetry-friday-multiply-on-fly.html

Coming to your blog for Poetry Friday is like coming home...no matter how long it's been since we visited, it still feels warm and comfortable (and always smart and insightful).

I'm jealous of the library and the bay windows in your new house! And your D.C. walkability!

Last thing before I leave my link: I have that MLK, Jr. quote on my classroom wall. It took up permanent residence the year I read aloud City of Ember and People of Sparks -- it is quoted in the front matter of one or the other of them. (And now I'm thinking this might be another good year to read both of those books...)

I have a Linda Pastan poem about fall this week. No commentary. None needed. She says it all just so:

http://readingyear.blogspot.com/2011/09/pumpkin-autumn.html

Welcome back, Sara! So good to hear from you, and congratulations on surviving your U-Haul summer. I am intensely jealous of your new location. What a great adventure to live in D.C.

I'm in this week with two Twosomes from Marilyn Singer at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/294002.html

And I've also got 15 Words or Less poems at http://laurasalas.livejournal.com/293646.html

Thanks for the inspiring words you shared today!

Sara, I'm delighted you're back (and in such book-filled digs) and I loved this post. Perfect.

I'm in this week with a very short selection. The post is here.

Thank you for hosting, Sara.

Today, over at my blog, Carl Sandburg explains what love was, is, and shall be. Yes, love is powerful, as Martin Luther King Jr reminds us in that beautiful quotation.

http://www.ghpoetryplace.blogspot.com/

Maria Horvath

Sara, welcome back, and thank you for your insightful post today. I am thinking about many of the same things and always wonder if they have a place on the blog. As you say, blogging is about connection. I wish you and everyone a happy Poetry Friday.

Also, enjoy your lovely new home!

Welcome back, Sara! Great post. Love your new digs!

I've got a poem by Christy NaMee Eriksen today:
http://tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/2011/09/she-loves-you.html

Thanks for hosting.

I have a great children's poem today on the Debbie Diller blog: One Cow, Two Moos.

Happy Poetry Friday! On the Stenhouse Blog we have a lovely poem by local Maine teacher/author Anne Tommaso. Enjoy!

Hi Sara. Thanks for sharing photos of your new home and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. Today I've posted a poem by Mary Oliver,who so beautifully connects us all to nature. http://joyceray.blogspot.com

I love to think of you walking the streets near the LoC. Lovely post -- a great way to start a Friday.

Welcome back! I'm in today with Animal Fights http://wp.me/pWySC-ip

So glad you're back! Missed your blog. Beautiful post. :)

Today I'm sharing "Manners" by Kim Addonizio:

http://jamarattigan.com/2011/09/30/friday-feast-not-exactly-amy-vanderbilt/

Thanks for hosting and have a good weekend!

Thanks for hosting, Sara.

My post is to promote the new Poetry Advocates for Children & Young Adults blog -- POETRY AT PLAY -- with a post about master poet David McCord:

http://poetryadvocates.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/poet-of-the-week-david-mccord/

So glad to see you here again Sara! I have been out of the blogging habit too and it feels good to be back in a Friday Poetry mood. I love the photo of your new library home!! Delightful.

I have a review of At the Sea Floor Cafe, a lovely book I won during last April's Nat. Poetry Month celebrations. Sweet!

Hi, Sara--

I reckon we're nighbors, now that I know roughly where your bay window is! I'm in today from Bethesda with a poem from the trenches of 7th grade and news about the release of the p*tag digital poetry anthology. Find it at http://myjuicylittleuniverse.blogspot.com/2011/09/trenches-of-seventh-grade.html
Thanks for hosting!

Sara,

Thanks for hosting Poetry Friday. It's so nice to have you back blogging again!

I haven't been blogging as much myself in the past few months. Now that I'm a grandmother, I spend as much time as I can with my granddaughter--who I can't bear to be away from for more than a couple of days. I wish she lived next door!

Over at Wild Rose Reader, I have a few more of the old, moldering poems that I've discovered while cleaning out bins in my basement and a couple of new pictures of little Julia Anna that I took last Sunday.

http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/2011/09/old-poems-new-furniture.html

Welcome back, Sara! I'm up with an original today:

Things I Saw Fried at the Fair

Thanks for hosting....

I have no link -- just glad you are back!

Thank you for hosting! I have an original poem for morning people at TeachingAuthors.com: http://www.teachingauthors.com/2011/09/earlybird-gets-story.html

I'm back! Over at Blue Rose Girls, I have an original memoir poem titled "Saving Summer."

http://bluerosegirls.blogspot.com/2011/09/saving-summer-memoir-poem.html

Hi, Sally Ito at PaperTigers logging in with a post for Poetry Friday: http://www.papertigers.org/wordpress/poetry-friday-the-eleventh-hour-by-graeme-base/

glad to see you back and that all is well. i was wondering if i missed an announcement of a leave or was simply in oblivion.

another original this week, though sadly not the poem i wanted to write.

http://fomagrams.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/poetryfriday-not-the-poem-i-wanted-to-write/

NOW I'm here in the right time and place!!! I'm glad you're back, Sara. Missed you...

Here's my post:http://liz-scanlon.livejournal.com/179009.html

Lovely quote. I just bought my kids a book about MLK in anticipation of MLK day which I hope to actually celebrate with my homeschooling youngesters this year.

You can find my contribution at:
http://twinklingalong.blogspot.com/2011/09/poetry-friday-spiderweb-poem.html

This was so lovely, Sara, and reminds me of how much I want to participate in Poetry Friday again. I'm going to to round up all my loose ends in a Uhaul of my own and try to venture back in. :)

I have a Shakespeare sonnet today. Thanks for hosting and for a beautiful post.

Here's mine.

Thanks for hosting! My choice this week is here http://happycatholic.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/poetry-friday-the-shroud-by-galway-kinnell/

I love the way he blends death and the natural world here.