Message

My given name
is Monty, please
take care of me,
I was just a little
pup when my boy
sailed off to sea.


~ M. Shoemaker
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(This is a response to the message in a bottle prompt at Poetic Asides. M. drew a sketch of a dog with the message bottle tied onto its collar.)

More Magnetic Poetry

We all worked on poems today using the magnetic poetry word list from a few days ago. Here are several M. wrote.

#1

dark bird music
is playing
in the night


#2

jump up together
run and wish with me
because we are home


#3

for by day
and night
the family is together


~ M. Shoemaker
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Masada

High in the fortress
Looking down at the city
What silent secrets
Have been written in the dust?
Here's one, "Defend what you love."


~ M. Shoemaker
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(Response to an idea to write a poem of place. This is also a tanka, a poem with the syllable count 5-7-5-7-7.)

Speaking in Church

"That was a great talk!"
Uh-oh, not this dilemma.
How do I answer?


~ M. Shoemaker
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(The prompt was to write a three-line poem with one line ending in a period, one in an exclamation point, and one in a question mark, in any order.)

Diving

Diving
Wet, blue
Swim with fish
Discover a new world
Enchantment


~ M. Shoemaker
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(Another cinquain after our lesson yesterday, this one following the word-count pattern.)

Princess

Princess
Pink, or leather
Flirting, or using knife
Heroes fall for either of them
Who's right?


~ M. Shoemaker
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