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STREAMSIDE
On the path
a girl is strolling,
by the path
a stream is rolling.
In the stream
the water glitters,
under water
crawdad skitters.
Path in spring
is good for going,
Stream in spring
is good for flowing.
© Mary Lee Hahn, 2012
Poem #3, National Poetry Month 2012
Thank goodness for my writer's notebook! The poem I thought I was going to write for today refused to be written. But I had bits and pieces of this poem in a discarded version of my SCUTTLE poem.
Cathy, at
Merely Day By Day, is joining me in a poem a day this month. Other daily poem writers include Amy at
The Poem Farm, Linda at
TeacherDance, Donna at
Mainely Write, Laura at
Writing the World for Kids (daily haiku), Liz at
Liz in Ink (daily haiku)...and YOU?
I thought I'd unbury this ancient painting from the archive section on my website for this week's Illustration Friday. This painting is from many, many years ago, but seemed fairly appropriate for today's topic:
It's even doubly appropriate, since as it happens, I'm currently working on a companion piece to this illustration which I hope to finish soon.
Revisions are like dying your hair a new color only to discover you have to now change your entire wardrobe.
I have been making changes to this illustration for a couple of days now...hours and hours of decision making. It will all be worth it in the end, but right now it is a question of color, balance, how much , how little...you all know the drill.
Here are some snaps of the saga...maybe if I just add more kids I can use all the different outfits ~
So, although you may not have liked the word at first, skitter turns out to be quite useful! Mary Lee, your poetry writing is spare & sets the scene very well indeed. The poem itself just rolls along, like the river or stream.
Yes, thank goodness for notebooks! They don't judge what you put in them, and never lose a thing.
I love the way the rhythm of your poem evokes the strolling and rolling. I need a stream nearby!
Mary Lee,
Like you, I've been thankful for my notebook. I put it aside for technology a few years ago. I just was a little between collecting ideas on a device and on paper. While writing Slice of Life posts I realized that the best pieces were those that had some fragment from my notebook. I had played more with the writing in my notebook. I was able to cross out, write numerous possibilities, and discover lines that work. So...I'm back to my notebook. Lesson learned. Now if I could just figure out how to organize it!?
I enjoyed your poem. I loved the rhythm of it. It just made me want to fun beside the stream and enjoy the life around it.