How's your National Poetry Month shaping up so far??
I LOVED hanging out with Poetry Peeps during #HFGather earlier this week. What a great way to get the month of poetry-lovin' started!
And today, I'm away from my desk, hanging out with my Garden Girls! A different kind of poetry!
My public art project to celebrate National Poetry Month is a Poetry Machine! Basically it's a 25-cent gumball machine loaded with pods that each contain a tiny poem! I'm so grateful to Dawn at Pink Porch Market and Lee at Charlie B's Restaurant for giving my Poetry Machine a home during April...and maybe beyond! See video below.
Today's ArtSpeak: PICASSO features a Picasso landscape! I didn't even know Picasso painted landscapes...but yes, yes he did! This one features rain, because when I sat down to write this poem, it was raining, and I thought what fun it would be to write a "rain" poem to the sound of rain on our metal roof! (I was right: it WAS fun!) Thanks so much for reading.
When Rain Comes on a Sunday Morning
by Irene Latham
rooster calls to rain
cockadoodledrizzle!
gate squeaks to rain
thanks, I needed a bath
steeple sings to rain
you make me believe
child chortles to rain
now I'm all wet!
