NaPoWriMo 2016

After a few years off, we're trying NaPoWriMo again this April! A poem per day for the month of April. I'm planning to post 2 on Saturdays so I can take Sundays off. (Actually, I think I like the idea of posting Sunday poems, so we'll see.) Hopefully we'll see a few from other family members as well.

Poems of place

Today we read one of my favorite poems, "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats. We talked about how poetry can create not only a picture of a place, but the way the place makes you feel. Here are the poems we wrote in response.

Cinquains

Today we wrote cinquains during school time. Most of us chose to use the syllable-count form (2-4-6-8-2) and T. chose the word-count form (1-2-3-4-1). We tried using this structure:
Line 1 - noun
Line 2 - description of the noun
Line 3 - action
Line 4 - feeling or emotion
Line 5 - sum up, or restate line 1 in a different way

Here are the ones we came up with, plus a couple more poems from A. who was on a roll today!

April is National Poetry Month

We recently found out about NaPoWriMo, a challenge to write a poem every day during the month of April. Several of us want to participate, so we decided to start this blog as a place to put what we write. I'm Tamary Shoemaker, the mom of the family, and M., A., and T. will also be contributing. None of us claim to be great writers, but we know the value of practice!