Join me as I continue to add poetry to my "Spring Seeds Gracing April Gallery and Padlet". I invite you to add at least one original image poem (or other options) to the padlet I created. You can find the invitation here.
Spring Graces Our Earth🔏early spring unfoldsgolden rays sparklezephers whoosh along
lush azaleas burstrenewing post-winter gardensearly spring unfolds
in afternoon splendorblossoms spread beautygolden rays sparkle
dusk's colors danceawakened buds rest zephers whoosh along©CVarsalona, April 2026, poem and photo
🔏I was inspired yesterday to use a new poetic format, the cascade poem, shared by Margaret Simon's This Photo Wants to be a Poem.
Spring's Meet-and-Greet at the Pond
baby ducklings splish and splash
in the pond at the end of the street
grandgirls frolic while watching ducklings play
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But Mother Duck hides in the shadows of day
observing her little ones
baby ducklings splish and splash
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few more minutes to watch and dash
rows of ducklings follow the leader
in the pond at the end of the street
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sunshine warms our meet-and-greet
time to say goodbye-no one wants to leave
grandgirls frolic while watching ducklings play
CVarsalona 2026, first cascade poem. Duckling Nature Photo by Margaret Simon
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Margaret Simon stated: "At Ethical ELA, Erica Johnson is leading us in writing a “Playful Cascade” which is a poem form that takes each line of the first stanza making them the last line of the next stanzas. I decided to use tercets, 3 lines per stanza."
Thank you to Heidi Mordhorst for hosting the Poetry Friday Roundup here. I appreciate that Heidi has gathered two other poetry friends, Margaret Simon, and Jone MacCulloch to create a lively conversational video on poetry with and for kids! The key thoughts they explore are:
- Approaches to the teaching of poetry with elementary-aged kids
- Why it's important
- How writing with kids inspires and sustains us, three middle-aging white ladies
Oh, those zephyrs and azaleas! Sure signs of spring!
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Cascade poems have such a gentle flow. Thank you for sharing yours, Carol.
ReplyDeleteCarol, thank you for this cascade of bursting spring images! I think I will also give this form a try and see what special features it allows for...
ReplyDeleteCarol, I love the idea of dusk colors dancing. How nice! Just last night I noticed the lush azaleas at our local theater.
ReplyDeleteLove the word "zephyr." The smooth way it slides off you tongue makes it a bit of onomatopoeia. One of my favorite vocabulary activities is to give students a set of words intentionally chosen, i.e., words that describe the movement of air (here's where I give them zephyr and chinook). The task with this set is to rank the words from gentle to violent.
ReplyDeleteCarol, thanks for the invitation to add a poem! The cascade poem is such a nice way to add repetition to your poem. I loved seeing your grandgirls repeated as they watch the ducks.
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