Claude Picasso and his Toy Horse poem

writing art poems!

 Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Be sure to visit Tanita at {fiction, instead of lies} for Roundup.

Wow, summer is HERE! I'm super-grateful for time spent this week with readers and writers of all ages at Clay Public Library and Oneonta Public Library. Thank you!

This week's ArtSpeak: PICASSO features Pablo's son Claude at age two, playing with his hobby horse. I immediately wondered: what was it like to grow up with Picasso as a father? 

Lucky for us, Claude shares about this experience here. The "lessons" Claude learned from Picasso can totally be applied to the writing life as well: take risks! play! don't delay! 

I struggled a bit with the poem and finally landed at a 5-7-5 syllable count that got me experimenting with using the haiku 5-7-5 structure to write a narrative about Picasso and his life...fun! Thanks so much for reading.

While Picasso paints

they trot, gallop, nicker, neigh!

Claude and his toy horse

- Irene Latham