Fun With Poetry

Fun With Poetry #FunWithPoetry:
a bilingual #poetry workshop series for #kids, classes are on hold. #SUNYNewPaltz grad. Formerly @FunWithPoetryNY.

[Fun With Poetry @FunWithPoetry]

Writing poetry—
cheap therapy!
All it costs is time,
and heart, and some paper,
and it doesn't have to rhyme.
- @FunWithPoetry

#funwithpoetry #poetry

[Joyce @joycebudenberg]

I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journey-work of stars~

Walt Whitman

Magda Bognar

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

The illustration in my collage is by Maginel Wright Enright (1881–1966), from the story Sunshine Flowers by Clara Ingram Judson. Maginel Wright Enright was the younger sister of the renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

[Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon]

"If I could catch
the green lantern of firefly
I could see to write you a letter." Amy Lowell
[images: Kiyochika Kobayashi/ Kiyokata Kaburagi ]

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

“On long, serene midsummer days
Of ripening fruit and yellowed grain,
How sweetly, by dim woodland ways,
In tangled hedge or leafy lane,
Fair wild rose thickets, you unfold
Those pale pink stars with hearts of gold!”

- from ‘Wild Roses’ by Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) #wildflowers

[Matthew Shute 🌳 @MatthewShute]

Vibrant violets vitalise vast and verdant vales
Fragile forest florals, their fineness rarely fails
#FlowersOnFriday
🍃 🪻 ✨ 💚

[Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon]

"these hydrangeas -
time for a linen kimono
in light blue" Basho Matsuo

(images: Kokei Kobayashi / Eiho Hirezaki)

[Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon]

"Hydrangea,
a truth of yesterday,
a lie of today" Shiki Masaoka

[Yumeji Takehisa / Hoitsu Sakai ]

[Joyce @joycebudenberg]

Behind your image,
above your thoughts,
below your words,
the silence of another world awaits~

John O’Donohue

Philippe Sainte-Laudy

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

“Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.”

- Christy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo

[Ellin Anderson @ellin_anderson]

REFLECTIONS
In the slick black eye
Of the catbird, the lush pinks;
In the frog pond, the darkening sky.
Distant, the red sun sinks.
Lie low, my laden heart, and fly —
Never contradictory,
Wingéd, like a #victory,
Crimson where the sea-lights die.
#vss365 #poem #poetry #summer

[Matthew Shute 🌳 @MatthewShute]

Prized pinions, in greeting, flicker,
primed to begin beating quicker
Boldly basking, bracken bending,
wildwood wings, once woven, wending...
#InsectThursday
🌿 🦋 💛 🤎

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

The Dormouse lay happy, his eyes were so tight
He could see no chrysanthemums, yellow or white.
And all that he felt at the back of his head
Were delphiniums (blue) and geraniums (red).
~A.A.Milne
#flowers

[Maude Frome @frome_maude]

#June by Eugene Grasset, for La Belle Jardinerie, #artnouveau calendar, 1896.
#June1st #1stJune #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

Gold between the poplars
An old moon shows;
Silver up the star-way
The full moon rose;
Silver down the star-way
The old moon crept…
And, one by another,
The grey fields slept.
~A.A.Milne

[A.A.Milne @A_AMilne]

“Spring came in softly through his open window; it whispered to him tales of green hedges and misty woods and close-cropped rolling grass.” ~A.A.Milne

[Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon]

"Green was the silence,
wet was the light,
the month of June
trembled like a butterfly."
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

[images: Hasui Kawase / Koson Ohara]

[VenetiaJane's Garden @VenetiaJane]

June is named for Juno, the Roman queen of the gods, protector of love, marriage, and motherhood. One of the birth flowers associated with this month is the rose, which is often called the “queen of flowers” and is a timeless symbol of love. Wishing you a joyful new month!

[Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon]

"The lovely flowers embarrass me,
They make me regret
I am not a Bee -." Emily Dickinson

(image: Koson Ohara)

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Remembering Emily Dickinson, who died 140 years ago today having changed the life of language, with her exquisite love letters, those living poems of the heart: https://t.co/NGfrLPgEex

[Joyce @joycebudenberg]

crescent moon
her gentle touch
and silent song
break the heart
of midnight~