Tag Archives: Message poems
Free ebook for National Poetry Day which is TOMORROW!
Liz Brownlee ♦ October 5, 2016 ♦ 2 Comments
This is it – isn’t it a beautiful thing? Below is what it says on the PanMacmillan website about the book: A poetry book to celebrate National Poetry Day 2016 with poems on the theme of messages from Matt Goodfellow, Rachel McCrum, Deborah Alma, Brian Moses, Liz Brownlee, Michaela Morgan, Jan Dean, Paul Cookson, Roger …
Message to a Murrelet
Liz Brownlee ♦ August 22, 2016 ♦ 6 Comments
Here is one of my own poems – the Scripp’s Murrelet chick dives in to the sea less than 24 hours after it has hatched, and having had no food at all. It is hatched fully-feathered and a third of the size of its parents – the murrelet has the largest egg to bird ratio …
NPD Poem of the Day by Brenda Harsham
Liz Brownlee ♦ August 1, 2016 ♦ 6 Comments
. Poem of the day comes from Brenda Davis Harsham from Massachusetts: . This is just to say… . Thank you, Earth that held tight trees bent to their knees in hurricane winds and . that imprints time itself on gorges, stone and shelf, in the language of fossil hieroglyphics. . Thank you, …
National Poetry Day Message Poem of the Day – Each Day the Sea Writes
Liz Brownlee ♦ July 25, 2016 ♦ 2 Comments
A fabulous poem of the day from Bruce Black, from Sarasota, Florida: . Each Day the Sea Writes . Each day the sea writes lines On the edge of the sand, and clouds Draw messages in the sky, and laughing . Gulls swoop and swirl and plead while Sandhill cranes raise their beaks high To …
National Poetry Day 2016
Liz Brownlee ♦ July 17, 2016 ♦ 1 Comment
Say it with a Poem! National Poetry Day this year is on October 6th. The theme is messages. In my role as National Poetry Day Ambassador, but also wildlife poet, I am asking people to send me message poems to an animal, or to the world. I am imagining poems to a declining habitat, pleas …