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All of my cheritas for the month can be found here.
If you missed it, one of Jone’s students made a powerful work of art and social commentary with my poem from last year’s NPM project, “Dandelions.” Go watch her video. Have a tissue ready.
Jone has the Poetry Friday roundup today, featuring Classic Found Poems. I’m late to the party, but I found a cherita inside A WRINKLE IN TIME, p.191.
comparing our lives to a sonnet:
a strict form
but freedom within it
you’re given the form
but you have to write the sonnet yourself–
what you say is completely up to you
Jone also has the next line in the Progressive Poem tomorrow. Sounds like my life at the beginning of the month! Such fun times in April!
A(nother) Year of Reading 
I am loving your daily cheritas. Each a little spot of goodness in my day. This month of poetry is filling my soul.
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open window season! Yes!
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Such a powerful video created with your dandelion poem appreciations for the heads up for it. Your sonnet made me reflect back to your dandelions… “ what you say is completely up to you” YES! And thanks for the breeze of birds coming through the “open window!”
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The video was amazing! Thanks for sharing, Mary Lee! And finding a cherita in A Wrinkle in Time is such a wonder! Poems truly can be found everywhere. Love the image of the wren on the fence. I have a wren who greets me every morning. Sometimes I imagine she’s reciting a poem.
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I love your open window cherita, Mary Lee. I tried a window poem, but it was such a ‘pane’ I never got past the first ‘draft’. 🙂
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Hooray for open window season! (Although last night I had to shut ours because the trilling toads and peeping peepers were deafening.)
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Two for the price of one. Yay, Mary Lee.
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Love that poem–made me chuckle to see that one open window. I’m off to bed after a long week. I know I’ll hear a train…maybe a goose or two. I need to open my window.
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I love that “tiny wren” singing “the morning awake.” And your Wrinkle in Time cherita is brilliant!
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Mary Lee, We, too, have had open windows this week. It is a wonderful season. The birds have returned here also. Congratulation on having your poem used by students to create a wonderful video.
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“tiny wren sings morning awake” – sigh. So lovely!
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Love the connection with A Wrinkle in Time… one of my favorites. Maybe it’s time to reread. Windows have been open here, also. Love “what you say is completely up to you.”
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Mary Lee, I watched the video of your poem-it’s a powerful video. The open window picture/poem make a great statement about spring. I love this last line to your last poem: what you say is completely up to you. Each poet carries their voice in their pocket along with their poem during NPM and throughout the year.
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I love hearing the trains, Mary Lee, and that they’re in the poem. And, finally found the time to watch your dandelion/video, shared! It is fabulous the way Kimberly opened up the possibilities.
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I feel like the cherita was made for you, Mary Lee. And the poem video by Kimberly Taylor is just…just…exquisite in its power.
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Ahh… I love thinking about now as “open window season” — From Highlights: woodpeckers hammer a windy day.
🙂
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Open window season is one of my favorites. You’ve captured its sounds in this Poetry Friday cherita.
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I look forward to reading your cheritas everyday. And the geese and the wren made me smile.
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