"The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson



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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Music of the Night

jump little bird
and see how you are
playing music with the night


~ T. Shoemaker
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(This is from our magnetic poetry activity.)

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Sunny

Sunny
Fluffy, smiling,
Spreading love everywhere.
I love him too.
Caring.


~ T. Shoemaker
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(Sunny is the name of his stuffed bear.)

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Music

Star Trek, Mission: Im-
possible, DS9, that
music is so cool!


~ T. Shoemaker
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(T. says: "I was short of thoughts right then.")

Friday, April 1, 2011

Green

pine TREES, MISTLEtoe.
bullFROGS, GRASS growth.
green HERE, GREEN There.
greeN, GREEn.
And THAT, IS it.


~ T. Shoemaker
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(T. says: "The all-capital parts are in upbeat. This poem is free verse." I think by "upbeat" he means spoken with a higher tone than the other parts, to create a rhythm.)