Kipling ends “The Elephant Child” with this poem, which will also be included in my retelling of his fable.
I Keep six honest serving-men:
(They taught me all I knew)
Their names are What and Where and When
And How and Why and Who.
I send them over land and sea,
I send them east [...]
That’s me! Check it out. Probably an apt choice since I am a poet, and it’s National Poetry Month. Just don’t laugh about the hat — it’s the only one I could find in their prop room that fit my enormous noggin. Not sure if I was trying to do a comical shot or a [...]
April is National Poetry Month, and since I’ve had this fascination with crows lately, I’d like to share a couple poems in one of my favorite forms, the cinquain.
Crows
Thick-billed.
Mocking songbirds.
Lumps of coal perched in trees.
Black brushstrokes on the horizon.
Corvids.
(Corvid is the the family of birds that includes crows, ravens, and jays.)
Even the Crows Know How [...]
For a long time, I’ve wanted to write a book of children’s poems. Now, I admit I’m no Shel Silverstein, but I did focus on poetry in graduate school, have since published poems in several literary journals and magazines, and have written numerous children’s books.
I’ve also wanted to pair my poetry with some sort of [...]
