30 poems in 30 days. Thanks #npm25 for a great month of #writing #poetry. #verselove #reflection
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How Many Poems? #NPM25 Day 30
A poem a day for 30 days, which also means I have read poem upon poem upon poem for 30 days. I’ve read poems to my students, poems written by my students, poems offered as invitations, poems …
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May 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
30 poems in 30 days. Thanks #npm25 for a great month of #writing #poetry. #verselove #reflection
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Writing under the influence of If. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #sliceoflife
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If: NPM25 Day 29
Last week I came across a list of someone’s favorite children’s books of 2025 and was immediately drawn to If I Could Choose a Best Day. It’s a collection of poems that all begin …
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April 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Writing under the influence of If. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #sliceoflife
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An ode for Sunday. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #ode
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Ode to the Sea: NPM25 Day 27
Traffic crawls lot’s full secret parking is not so secret today a sea wall of humanity lines my beach (I’m not mad, everyone should have a relationship with the sea) As I walk, the sea …
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April 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
An ode for Sunday. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #ode
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Write about a minor ailment. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Irritating Eyes: NPM25 Day 26
Scott’s prompt to write a poem about a minor ailment made finding a subject easy, but figuring out how to make a poem of it was much harder today. And as often happens, I had to find a struct…
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April 27, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Write about a minor ailment. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Capturing some classroom springtime in a #haibun. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Springtime Haibun: NPM25 Day 24
Spring is a time for bees and buds and blossoms. It seems that everything is in motion, including my students. We’ve passed the time of settled in and are now in the time of change. Plants ar…
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April 25, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Capturing some classroom springtime in a #haibun. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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When there are too many things to do, #write a poem. #npm25 #poetry #verselove #spring
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Things to Do: NPM25 Day 23
There is a certain kind of overwhelm that enters the classroom when the number of remaining school days drops below 30. Student learning skyrockets with confidence at its maximum–these should…
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April 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
When there are too many things to do, #write a poem. #npm25 #poetry #verselove #spring
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What poem will you write for #earthday? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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An Earth Day Prose Poem: NPM25 Day 22
Sometimes Ocean roars in like a dragon, frothing and swirling, energy radiating from every salty drop, tossing boats, leveling cliffs, chasing swimmers to shore. Every scale and feather ripples in …
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April 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
What poem will you write for #earthday? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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When a listicle becomes a poem. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Five Things I Did Last Week: NPM25 Day 21
Five things I did last week: Rolled with an earthquake on a Monday morning in my classroom while my students were out at their music class. It was not THE big one, but it was a big one. Realized I …
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April 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
When a listicle becomes a poem. #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Welcome Back, Monday...Day 21 of VerseLove Where I Offer My 20th Poem of April (to be inspired by a Musical, I guess). Did What I Could
Welcome Back, Monday...Day 21 of VerseLove Where I Offer My 20th Poem of April (to be inspired by a Musical, I guess). Did What I Could
Yesterday was a wonderful day for food, and Patrick & Stephanie out did themselves with ham, beef, potatoes, soups, vegetables, and desserts...
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April 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Welcome Back, Monday...Day 21 of VerseLove Where I Offer My 20th Poem of April (to be inspired by a Musical, I guess). Did What I Could
Always Happy to Play with Words, Especially When They are New to My Spoken Vocabulary. Day 18 of #VerseLove (or OctothorpeVerseLove)
Always Happy to Play with Words, Especially When They are New to My Spoken Vocabulary. Day 18 of #VerseLove (or OctobthorpeVerseLove)
I'm happy because my out-of-town, once-in-town friends have returned to Stratford to spend the night. We had dinner last night with Beth and...
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April 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Always Happy to Play with Words, Especially When They are New to My Spoken Vocabulary. Day 18 of #VerseLove (or OctothorpeVerseLove)
Do you dream in color? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #color #prosepoem #photography
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Dreaming in Color: NPM25 Day 15
Last night I woke up in a dream reaching for color. I could see it, just beyond my fingertips. Words pushed and pulled in my brain, like poetry chewing gum, stretching to capture the colors in that…
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April 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Do you dream in color? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove #color #prosepoem #photography
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Tapping the Safe Spaces...Day 14 of #VerseLove. For Me? Definitely My Front Porch Where I Do Much of My Thinking, Writing, Collaborating, and Creating
Tapping the Safe Spaces in Our Lives...Day 14 of #VerseLove. For Me? Definitely My Front Porch Where I Do Much of My Thinking
Phew. That was a long day (as if they aren't all long days). Began with the dentist who basically told her staff that my retirement funds ar...
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April 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Tapping the Safe Spaces...Day 14 of #VerseLove. For Me? Definitely My Front Porch Where I Do Much of My Thinking, Writing, Collaborating, and Creating
Where's your safe harbor? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Safe Harbor: NPM25 Day 14
I’ve been reading a memoir called The Salt Path by Raynor Winn–and while I’m not yet halfway through–I’m struck by the way the relationship between the couple sustains…
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April 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Where's your safe harbor? #npm25 #poetry #writing #verselove
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Can you really have too many books? #npm25 #poetry #writing #books #verselove
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I’m Addicted to Bookstores: NPM25 Day 12
I can’t resist a great bookstore or even a not so great bookstore. Wherever I travel, bookstores are always on my list of places to visit. I’ve been trying hard to stop buying books and…
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April 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Can you really have too many books? #npm25 #poetry #writing #books #verselove
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Day 11 of #VerseLove: Thankful to have a chance to remember, recall, reflect, and write.
Thankful to Make It to Saturday Morning, Yesterday Day 11 of #VerseLove, and Thankful to Have a Friday Prompts of Remembrance
I slid into Friday evening not knowing if I was coming or going. I have piles of materials needing to be graded, flashbacks to meetings that...
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April 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Day 11 of #VerseLove: Thankful to have a chance to remember, recall, reflect, and write.
A #poem that is a #photoessay. #npm25 #wildflowers #photography #writing #verselove
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I Don’t Remember–A Photo Essay: NPM25 Day 11
I don’t remember when I fell in love with wildflowers Maybe it was when I danced to the music of wild mustard forehead to forehead with great blue heron clapping the beat Maybe it was when th…
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April 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
An invitation to look closely. #npm25 #poetry #verselove #writing #photographychallenge
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Slow Down: NPM25 Day 10
Today’s Verselove prompt was an invitation to look closely–something I find that my camera helps me do. So after a stroll through my camera roll, I found my inspiration. Slow Motion Fir…
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April 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
An invitation to look closely. #npm25 #poetry #verselove #writing #photographychallenge
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Poetry Month Day 10: Driving the Point Home
Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll…
Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll…
Poetry Month Day 10: Driving the Point Home
Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll give it a go.
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April 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Poetry Month Day 10: Driving the Point Home
Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll…
Today's #VerseLove prompt, "Look Closely," comes from Joanne Emery. Her poem for the day tells the story of the house of her loved ones. As I read her work, a poem I've been percolating on the back burner might be ready to come to the surface. So I'll…
Poetry Month Day 9: Depending on When You Met Me
Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.
Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.
Poetry Month Day 9: Depending on When You Met Me
Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.
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April 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Poetry Month Day 9: Depending on When You Met Me
Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.
Today's #Verselove poetry challenge is to compose a "depending on when you met me" poem. It's a good way to think about all of the "me's" I've been over the years, and to whom.
Poetry Month Day 8: Birthright
Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.
Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.
Poetry Month Day 8: Birthright
Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.
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April 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Poetry Month Day 8: Birthright
Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.
Today's #VerseLove poem explores a gesture (along with a few other choice things) I inherited from my dad.
A little #poppy love on day 7! #npm25 #poetry #verselove #writing #photography
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Poppy Love: NPM25 Day 7
When Erica over at Verselove offered an invitation to write about flowers, I knew immediately that I would write about the California state flower: the golden poppy. Poppy’s feel like my alte…
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April 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A little #poppy love on day 7! #npm25 #poetry #verselove #writing #photography
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I've Written Many "Where I'm From" Poems (Thanks, George Ella Lyons), So Took the Day 6 of #VerseLove Challenge to Alter Towards How Have I Arrived at This Point
I've Written Many "Where I'm From" Poems (Thanks, George Ella Lyons), So Took the Day 6 Challenge to Alter Towards How Have I Arrived at This Point
Definitely tree-blooming sneezing. Ha-choo. Yikes. Pollen everywhere. I also cooked for the week and baked a cake for the neighbor who lost ...
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April 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I've Written Many "Where I'm From" Poems (Thanks, George Ella Lyons), So Took the Day 6 of #VerseLove Challenge to Alter Towards How Have I Arrived at This Point
Can you express where you are from in just 17 syllables? #npm25 #poetry #verselove #haiku #photography
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Where I’m From: NPM25 Day 6
Where I’m from poems are tried and true in the writing project circles where I spend my time. So when Stacey at Verselove shared Where I’m From, Again as today’s post, it felt fam…
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April 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Can you express where you are from in just 17 syllables? #npm25 #poetry #verselove #haiku #photography
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