Every Saturday (or Sunday) I celebrate with Ruth Ayres at Discover Play Build. and link with others who share their celebrations, too. It's always lovely to read everyone's posts. I am grateful to Ruth each week for her thoughtful creation of this community.A good week to me feels like a week with family and friends, time to read and time to write. It was a good week! I'm always writing poems, but have paid special attention recently to a picture book story in poetry. I had time during the week to "really" work on it, and I celebrate that. Also, I had the last meetings with the teacher with whom I've worked all year, a final lesson and conversation, and a celebration with all the "new" teachers hosted by the school that manages the licensing program. I am so proud of the teacher he has become, and wish him much success and happiness in his teaching. He has a job already!
Last week I celebrated all the "mothers" in my life, including those special grandmothers. And this week, lilac blooms spread over our city. I saw, and smelled, them everywhere. I wrote this for David L. Harrison's website which has a Word of the Month to write to. The poems are shared in comments on a specific link on his blog. If you'd like to join, please take a look. He also has a link for students to share poems from the Word of the Month. This month's word is May, and the variety of kinds of poems already shared is marvelous. I like some of the poems that I write, and love others, maybe not that they're perfect, but some "please" more than others. Here's a poem I celebrate, because it's about grandmothers and lilacs, two of my favorite things.
Lilacs and grandmothers - two wonderful things! Love the marriage of the two in your poem and the photograph too!. Sounds like you had a wonderful week. Happy weekend, Linda!
ReplyDeleteThank you! It was a good, and busy, week. Things will slow down a bit now that I'm finished at school. We have rain coming in Sunday. Hope your weekend is grand, too!
DeleteI couldn't agree with you more, a good week to me feels like a week with family and friends, time to read and time to write. I have recently found a new appreciation for poetry and have been brave enough to write some of my own. I love your celebration of grandmothers and lilacs, perfect for this time of the year. ~Amy
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amy, good for you for writing poetry. Hoping you have a good weekend with family & friends, writing and reading!
DeleteAmy, I see that you are starting to write poetry. Please join in my spring gallery to make a garden of beautiful poetry flowers.
DeleteLinda, your poem is lovely. May I use your May poem for the gallery? Of course, I would love to use another or two of your work.
DeleteYes I will send it, and another too!
DeleteIsn't it funny that lilacs remind you of grandmothers. But I see why. They are such a simple, old fashioned and beautifully scented flower. The way your mind works is remarkable Linda.
ReplyDeleteThey are old-fashioned to me, and perhaps because my grandmothers had huge yards filled with lilac bushes. There were always vases full during this time. Thanks, Bernadette.
DeleteLilacs remind me of my childhood days and the delicious scents in my neighborhood. Thanks for bringing me back there, Linda.
DeleteYou're welcome, Carol, and as you can see, me, too!
DeleteI'm glad the teacher you worked with had a good year! It's exciting to hear that he already has a job. Love the poem too! Your celebrations always bring a smile to my face!
ReplyDeleteThis teacher made an easy year for me, Michelle, a good time all through. Thank you!
DeleteWonderful celebrations, Linda!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jane. I wish you would join us some Saturday!
DeleteSo much to celebrate, but especially lilacs and grandmothers...
ReplyDeleteit is the "snowball" bushes (hydrangea) I remember in my grandmother's yard. In my memory, they were huge.
Yes, those will bloom next, I think. My peonies are about to burst, too. Thanks!
DeleteWhat a joy to say "It was a good week." I hadn't thought of it before, but seeing your poem showed the connection between lilacs and grandmother, for me too.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me happy to hear your connection, too, Terje. Thank you.
DeleteIt's such a blessing for a new teaching to have the leadership and conversations with a veteran. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall and listen to the last celebration of the year with him. Your poem was beautiful and lilacs are my favorite.
ReplyDeleteAt this last celebration, it was just a joy to relax and talk about ourselves, what the future might hold and on, Maria. There is so little time during the year for that. Thanks for coming by!
DeleteI love when our lilacs bloom at home and I'll be missing them this year. Instead I get to watch the pink hibiscus bloom here!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad it was a week full of reading and writing. I won't get those days until the summer, but they'll be coming!
Summer will be here soon! You'll see many beautiful flowers like the hibiscus, Michele. I love when we go to the beach & can enjoy those different flowers. Thanks!
DeleteI'm so glad you had a good week. The lilacs are blooming like crazy here too. The smell is lovely, but my allergies get all funny about them. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Crystal but sorry about the allergies. I know my son & daughter-in-law would be suffering from the blooming too.
DeleteIt's one of my grandma's birthday today. And I was just thinking how wonderful it is to be spoiled by grandparents! Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI was spoiled, Earl, & am passing it on to my granddaughters, too. I agree, wonderful all the way around.. Thank you!
DeleteThe poem makes my heart smile: I love grandmothers and lilacs, too. But I am especially happy about that young teacher who had you to guide him - your work will live on in so many more students because of what he learned from you. What a gift!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tara. What a nice thought and compliment.
DeleteOh boy! You are writing! This makes me smile. I hope the words are dancing for you.
ReplyDeleteRuth
Thank you, and yes, am writing, enjoying it a bunch!
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