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Oh my goodness Kelly. Think happy thoughts. You'll do great! Can't wait to hear all about it.

Vivian

Oh my gosh, this is probably one of my favorites too. I always loved to swing and I would recite it while I pumped myself as high as I could. I hear my mother's voice reading it in my head.

Thank you. Lovely memory.

Good Luck! And thanks for doing the roundup this week.

At Wild Rose Reader: I have a post about the poetry of Mary Ann Hoberman and her book THE LLAMA WHO HAD NO PAJAMA.

http://wildrosereader.blogspot.com/poetry-friday-poetry-of-mary-ann.html

At Blue Rose Girls: I have an original poem that is a tribute to the fine teachers I worked with...and to dedicated teachers everywhere.

http://bluerosegirls.blogspot.com/
2007/05/poetry-friday-tribute-to-teachers.html

I've got mine up at Pixiepalace:
http://www.pixiepalace.com/2007/05/18/poetry-friday-headache-poem/

Congrats and best of luck! I hope it's everything you want it to be.

We're in with my review of Catherine Reef's biography from last year of E.E. Cummings. It's at http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=634.

Good luck flying! I tried to get my husband flying lessons for his birthday once, and he took exactly one lesson and never went back. Ah well.

I'm bound for the cosmos today with Douglas Florian's new book:

http://dadtalk.typepad.com/book_buds_kidlit_reviews/2007/05/starstruck.html

Kelly, Have fun with your lesson. I wrote a poem about allergies.
It is here: http://maclibrary.edublogs.org/2007/05/18/poetry-friday-allergies/
Thanks for doing the round-up.

I took flying lessons for a while in college, and now that I'm back on the ground, I say, "Better you than me!". Just Kidding! You'll love it. It's so open and free up there. Bring your camera!

Ooo! Have fun! :)

I'm in with silliness today:

http://www.watat.com/archives/2007/05/silly_dilly_son.html

How wonderful! Enjoy every minute of your flying lessons. I love that swing poem too - lovely.

Thanks for doing the round up today. I am reviewing a Margaret Mahy book today.

Thanks so much for doing the roundup. I am all about J. Patrick Lewis today at World of Words:
http://marcieaf.blogspot.com

Good luck, Kelly, and have fun!

I have a children's poem up this week:

http://dawnathome.typepad.com/by_sun_and_candlelight/2007/05/poetry_friday_t_1.html

Thanks so much!

Thanks for rounding up, Kelly! I'm in with last lines of poems, and the questions we're left with...

Have fun in the wild blue yonder!!!

You'll do great this afternoon! I'm in with some immortal love from William Shakespeare.

http://hipwritermama.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday-shakespeare.html

I'm in!

http://journey-woman.blogspot.com/2007/05/little-poetry-for-you-rexroth.html

Have a wonderful time, Kelly! Let us know what the view's like from up there.

I'm in with a border-crossing poem:

http://bookbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday-cross-that-line.html

I almost posted that same poem! My children got a swing this week, so I had pulled the poem out and read it to them. I went with a ode to May by Elsa Beskow instead. http://adventuresindailyliving.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday_18.html

Have fun with flying today! I'm in with another poem by my daughter. http://simpleordinary.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday_18.html

Good luck with the flying lesson Kelly !!

I'm in this week - with Eliot and Doctor Who again !!

This poem, however, is dedicated just to you:

High Flight

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds—and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace,
Where never lark, or even eagle, flew;
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.














RCAF Flight-Lieutenant John Gillespie Magee Jr. (1922-1941).

Wow, flying! How exciting! I've got Emily Dickinson.

http://maureenelizabeth.blogspot.com/2007/05/emily-dickinson-and-poetry-friday.html

Here's mine:

http://motherreader.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-friday-stellina.html

It's about a bird, so the flying theme continues. Have fun!

Here's a rain on the window poem from AA Milne...
http://charlotteslibrary.blogspot.com/2007/05/for-poetry-friday-waiting-at-window.html

thanks!

I've got Emily Dickinson here:
http://lectitans.livejournal.com/20905.html

I'm in! I'm in! Late, but it's still Friday. http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/2007/05/poetry-fridayfat-is-not-fairy-tale.html

Glad you made it back! :)

I love "The Swing" because my grandpa used to say it to me while he swung me in a specially made tire-swing that he designed himself. Someday I plan to turn it into a song. Notice it's in 3/4 time!