Greetings and welcome! It has been a privilege to participate in this written-for-children progressive poem this April. Here’s what was decided for the first six days:
I’m a case of kindness – come and catch me if you can!
Easily contagious – sharing smiles is my plan.
I’ll spread my joy both far and wide,
As a force of Nature I’ll be undenied.
Words like, “how can I help?” will bloom in the street.
A new girl alone on the playground – let’s meet, let’s meet!
Rose then offered two sweet lines for me to choose from:
We can jump-skip together in a double-dutch round.
or
I spy Mrs. J toting grocery bags.
So, like Rose, I wasn’t ready to let the new girl go. I decided to get them together, and chose Rose’s first line.
I’m a case of kindness – come and catch me if you can!
Easily contagious – sharing smiles is my plan.
I’ll spread my joy both far and wide,
As a force of Nature I’ll be undenied.
Words like, “how can I help?” will bloom in the street.
A new girl alone on the playground – let’s meet, let’s meet!
We can jump-skip together in a double-dutch round.
Now, what will happen with this new girl? Perhaps the two children will join together on a kindness mission, or this new shy girl may be won over by the “case of kindness” child. Or likely something else entirely! It’s exciting to see where this meandering poem will lead by the end of April.
For now, Margaret Simon is invited to choose one of these next lines:
Over, under, jump and wonder, touch the ground
OR
But she was shy when greeted; she didn’t make a sound.
I look forward to following the rest of the Kidlit progressive poem journey for 2021. You can too, here at these blogs:
- Kat Apel at katswhiskers
- Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
- Mary Lee at A Year of Reading
- Donna Smith at Mainely Write
- Irene Latham at Live your Poem
- Jan Godown Annino at BookseedStudio
- Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
- Denise Krebs at Dare to Care
- Margaret Simon at Reflections on the Teche
- Molly Hogan at Nix the Comfort Zone
- Buffy Silverman
- Janet Fagel at Reflections on the Teche
- Jone Rush MacCulloch
- Susan Bruck at Soul Blossom Living
- Wendy Taleo at Tales in eLearning
- Heidi Mordhorst at my juicy little universe
- Tricia Stohr Hunt at The Miss Rumphius Effect
- Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
- Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
- Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
- Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
- Ruth Hersey at There is No Such Thing as a God-forsaken Town
- Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
- Tabatha Yeatts at The Opposite of Indifference
- Shari Daniels at Islands of my Soul
- Tim Gels at Yet There is Method
- Rebecca Newman
- Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
- Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wondering
- Michelle Kogan at More Art 4 All
