Poetry Friday-Lee Bennett Hopkins Birthday Bash! and #NaPoWriMo day 13

 

A
Celebration
of
Jubilation
of
Historical
Consideration!

With
Bookish
Balloons
and
Wild Wacky
Words,
Marvelous
Metaphors
and
Scrumptious 
Similes!

Stir them
Shake them
Stick them
In a Pan

Dim the Lights
Drum Roll 
Please…

It’s 
A
Birthday
Bash
for
LEE BENNETT HOPKINS!

Hip Hip
Hooray, 
Hip Hip
Hooray, 
Hip Hip
HOOOOOORAY!

© 2018 Michelle Kogan

Happy Poetry Friday, and Happy National Poetry Month! For Poetry Friday many of us are celebrating Lee Bennett Hopkins Birthday Today! He happens to be a favorite poet of mine, and I’m very happy to shine more light in his honor. I think he was a favorite of mine before I knew who he actually was. One of the first poetry anthology books of his I collected was Marvelous Math. In this mix I’m particularly fond of his poem Sky.

 

SKY
by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Decimal point
meteors
streak
through
the night

Fractions
of moonbeams
gleam 
white-bright–

I couldn’t find the rest of the poem online so you’ll either have to buy the book or check it out of your local library. Michelle Heidenrich Barnes featured Lee on her blog at Today’s Little Ditty, and he challenged us to write a Me Poem. I wrote Toady, for this challenge and I was quite taken by his comments in response to my poem. Toady eventually found it’s way into Michelle’s first poetry anthology The Best of Today’s Little Ditty, 2014-2015.

I have one additional poem I’ve written in Lee’s honor and another poem of his that I’m sharing, they are both titled SPRING.

My poem below address Spring’s reluctant weather here in Chicago. Though some where off the wild and windy breezes of our grand Lake Michigan, Mother Nature  graced us with a few lovely hours of Spring like weather, hope it returns again soon!

 

SPRING

Waiting–
Waiting–
When
will it
come…

Checking–
Rechecking–
My plants
One by
One…

April
Has come,
Spring
are you
Here?

I’ve 
Waited 
An eternity
And won’t wait
Another
Year!

©2018 Michelle Kogan

 

SPRING 
By Lee Bennett Hopkins

Roots
sprouts
buds
flowers

always–
always–
cloud-bursting showers

Read the rest of Lee’s poem at Poetry for Children!

 

For National Poetry Month, I’ve been busy writing poems and reading poems on blogs and, there just aren’t enough hours in the day, maybe I’ll have to give up on sleep for the rest of the month… On my blog I’ve been focusing on flora and fauna Here’s a list of the poems I’ve posted so far:
Poem one–  DEAR APRIL
Poem two–Haiku Azaleas
Poem three–ODE TO SHUN LEE
Poem four–Haiku Daffodils
Poem five–APRIL’S MYSTERIES
Poem six–APRIL’S BUDS  
Poem seven–A LOVELY BEETLE
Poem eight–CHANGES IN NATURE
Poem nine-HURRY SPRING  
Poem 10-ANIMAL TRACKS
Poem 11-APRIL SNAKE 
Poem 12-Haiku NARCISSUS

You can also visit Jama at Jama’s Alphabet Soup for a detailed description and links of other poetry blogs featuring poems for National Poetry Month Kidlitosphere Roundup.

Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge is hosting this weeks Poetry Friday Roundup, thanks Robyn! She’s concocting more Birthday Celebrations for Lee Bennett Hopkins, and  has also spearheaded our posts in his direction.

 

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