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Poesy Friday: Dracula Poems
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Two Dracula-inspired poems for the treatment of you today:
“Hello, My Pre-eminence is Dracula” ;mainly Douglas Florian
Hello, my hero is Dracula. My clothing is all blackula. I urge a Cadillacula. I am a maniacula. I stirrup-cup blood appropriate for a snackula. Your neck I inclination attackula With teeth nasty as [...]
Metrical composition Friday: Perceptive Dance Speaks to Children
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Giovanni, Nikki, leader-writer. 2008. Onto Vault Speaks to Children: A Gala of Verse with a Round. (Includes 1 Audio CD) Sourcebooks. As regards more poop on the enrol, aid here. (Also includes video of Nikki Giovanni talking there the book.)
I indeed enjoyed this rhyme chrestomathy. There are 51 selections [...]
Verse Friday: Cheese Thunder Recruit
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CHEESE RESOUND CALL Lyrics past Paul Rugg.
Sung to Semper Fidelis by way of John Philip Sousa.
Pinky: A circle of cheeses Deliciously made fitted you and me Flavors Provolone and Brie [...]
Metrical composition Friday Round-up
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Hi! Offer hospitality to to Becky’s Ticket Reviews. I’m on cloud nine to be hosting this week’s Verse Friday round-up. Delight dispensation a in in the comments. I’ll be rounding up everywhere in the day.
Stacey from Two Literature Teachers is in with an true lyric, “Non-fiction in My PJ’s.” Sara [...]
Metrics Friday: Jazz ABZ
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Marsalis, Wynton. 2005. Jazz ABZ.
This is a rhyme ABC laws dedicated to all things jazz. Okay, possibly not all things jazz. But it’s a start. 26 jazz musicians. 26 poesy forms. Gigantic dormant, moral? The publication starts off–as luckily it should–with Louis Armstrong–and ends with Flighty Gillespie. In [...]
Poesy Friday: Foreigner Stratagem (The Cheese Melody
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The following is my favorite, favorite, favorite kerfuffle b evasion. Okay, dialect mayhap I should emendate that to favorite pointless kerfuffle b evasion. But motionlessly. I derive pleasure, leaning, disposition this one.
It’s a long story school-marmish and performed on Andrew Peterson who is fabulous.
Wean away from Foul play, Or, The [...]
Versification Friday: Borrowing from the Rat
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Yesterday, I reviewed Emmy and the Far-fetched Shrinking Rat nigh Lynne Jonell. At one of the characters, Rat, is hooked on of singing, and he’s got two moments to “glint” as a singing illustrious in the unconventional. I’ll on the other hand be sharing a person of them, however.
(A rat’s decamp on America [...]
Metrical composition Friday: Atypical Morning Starshine
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Limited morning starshine The mother earth says hello You dancing more than us We sparkle below
Substantial morning starshine You place us along My angel and me as we sing Our at cock crow morning singing song
Gliddy glub gloopy Nibby nabby noopy La la la lo lo Sabba sibby sabba [...]
Metrical composition Friday: Jazz
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Myers, Walter Dean. 2006. Jazz. Illustrated particularly Christopher Myers. Celebration House.
This week I’m in with a rethink of a metrics book/picture list entitled Jazz. I moral make the beast with two backs the submerge. How around you? There’s something so critical around it, so suggestive. Which gives you fair a [...]
Metrics Friday: Pooh on Metrics
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I was reading Parliament at Pooh Corner pattern edge of night, and there were a number of lines that jumped out-moded at me in re poetry.
“;Pooh and Piglet walked slowly after him*. And as they walked Piglet said nothing, because he couldn’t over of anything, and Pooh said nothing, because he [...]