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SuzanneG
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Anyone up for a Summer Poetry Party this year?
A couple years ago, I remember reading about Poetry Parties on MacBeth's Opinion - How to Hold a Poetry Party and Higher Up and Further In ~ The Art of Public Speaking and we've been doing it ever since! A couple times a year. My kids are still young, so we've just done it with our own family, sometimes when a grandparent is visiting. Just after dinner or on a Sat. afternoon, little snack or dessert afterwards to celebrate.
**Each child recites one of their poems that they've been working on (memorized)
**Adults read a longer poem (no memorization nec  )
**Usually having to do with the particular season or time of year, but not always
**In addition to their memorized poem, the 2 older girls are now also reciting (but not nec memorizing) a longer poem together alternating stanzas.
This summer we invited our neighbors who have an 8 yo and they were SO EXCITED! Plus, my sister will be here in July or August. And, then it got mentioned to our other neighbors and they want to come too! (a couple in their 40's/50's with older kids not living at home.) The husband is a "closet-poet" and wanted to know if he could recite something that he's written.  
We'll probably do it after dinner and serve dessert. Recite out on the lawn, and then maybe a bon fire. 7 adults and 6 kids!!
Anyone else planning something for this summer?
Any blog posts to link?
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That sounds like a great idea! I'll have to plan one of these. Thanks, Suzanne.
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Oh, Suzanne... this is a really good idea. And I had been thinking this past week of what we could do. It came to me today when you reposted the Moon and Stars for Littles link in the Apollo 11 thread. There was the Robert Louis Stevenson poem, the Moon that I had posted there. It hit me then...we are going to make our summer poetry party a MOON themed one. I'm finding all kinds of great moon poems - particularly at this site.
From The Rime of the Acient Mariner:
The moving Moon went up the sky.
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside-
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
TO THE MOON
Art thou pale for weariness
Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,
Wandering companionless
Among the stars that have a different birth,
And ever changing, like a Joyless eye
That finds no object worth its constancy?
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Is the moon tired? she looks so pale
Within her misty veil:
She scales the sky from east to west,
And takes no rest.
Before the coming of the night
The moon shows papery white;
Before the dawning of the day
She fades away.
From "Sing-Song" by Christina Rossetti
And also from "Sing-Song" (great science lesson in this verse!):
0 Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east;
Shine, be increased:
0 Lady Moon, your horns point toward the west;
Wane, be at rest.
This is one I remember memorizing in grade school
SILVER
Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy coat the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.
- Walter de la Mare
And if you need ones for the littles, these nursery rhymes:
I see the moon,
The moon sees me
God bless the moon,
And God bless me.
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed to see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
I am so excited about this ... you could say that I'm "over the moon..." hee hee
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