Please be sure to visit Donna Smith at Mainely Write for the Poetry Friday Roundup. ![]() I don’t remember where I first read Siv Cedering’s lovely “When it is Snowing,” but it immediately came to mind after reading “Winter Scene.” A blue jay in our apple tree last winter. In addition to lots of good advice, he includes plenty of poetry as examples of how “poems freshen the world,” including this beauty from A.R. Poet Laureate from 2004-2006, offers exactly that in his plain-spoken, straightforward style. The rusty leaves crunch and crackle, Blue haze hangs from the dimmed sky, The fields are matted with sun-tanned stalks. The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, as if orchards were dying high in space. This might work well with a ‘consequences’ story frame: a framework of actions already written where pupils add in nouns taken from the image to make a story.I’ve been participating in Laura Shovan‘s Found Object Poetry Project this month, and in addition to drafting a poem every day, I’ve been reading Ted Kooser‘s The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets (University of Nebraska Press: 2005). 8 Autumn Poems: Sights Seen and Feelings Felt 1. To stimulate creative writing: pupils could pick two or three elements of the picture and combine them to stimulate a story. ![]() To support reading of individual poems – the image can act as a visual reminder of topics, themes or narratives for students while they are completing work on poems To stimulate pre-listening discussion about what the poems might be about He’d go back to an electric life, stupid with administration. The fear that what he’d seen what had been inside himthat one clear notenow would slip away. Everything set before him set to bursting. Using the images:Įach programme is accompanied by a composite picture inspired by the poems in that programme. Actually Very Simple Jay Deshpande He came back from halfway around the world like that, tongue tied around him like a scarf. Students can read the text of the poem before, during or after listening to the recording and there are suggestions in these notes for pre-, during-, and post- listening activities. You can listen to them in their entirety or listen to and focus on one poem at a time. The programmes can be used in a variety of ways. These poems are read by the actors Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt. The final two programmes focus on classic poetry and include a selection of well-known poems often taught at Key Stage 2. ![]() The final two programmes focus on classic poetry and include a selection of well-known poems often taught at Key Stage 2. I don’t remember where I first read Siv Cedering’s lovely When it is Snowing, but it immediately came to mind after reading Winter Scene. Poet: Catherine Pulsifer Oh, how autumn brings the beauty of all, A season of transition, a glorious call, From summer's sun to winter's frost, Leaves changing hues, their best embossed. A blue jay in our apple tree last winter. But you’re a killer whale circling your young in the light, sentenced by primal code to love your wild creature for life. On the Beach at Night By Walt Whitman On the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky. Autumn Sky is a short poem with a vast amount of references to time and space, nostalgia, and the power of the natural world. Each of the first 6 programmes profiles a different contemporary children’s poet who introduces and then reads a selection of his or her work. plummets in, lights, and, in pure clarity, squalls, then every branch. The poet tries to tells us that autumn comes every year butcovers his tracks to the point where it will look like he was never there. The last red berries hang from the thorn-tree, The last red leaves fall to the ground. There are eight programmes in this series. Unseen poetry The poet describes autumn as an experienced robber, he says this because autumn comes every year sothat’s why it’s so experienced in doing what he does every year. The rusty leaves crunch and crackle, Blue haze hangs from the dimmed sky, The fields are matted with sun-tanned stalks.
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