tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552083088916942937.post255633867994147026..comments2023-12-13T03:19:15.138-08:00Comments on The Drift Record : The Mortimer Minute - My Turn with the Children's Poetry Blog Hop! Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552083088916942937.post-81172626897697062772013-10-07T14:04:44.230-07:002013-10-07T14:04:44.230-07:00Took some time and effort jumping through several ...Took some time and effort jumping through several links to get here, but I was rewarded with such a thoroughly enjoyable Mortimer Minute! Thanks Julie... and to Mortimer as well, who was undoubtedly responsible for all the jumping around. ;)Michelle Heidenrich Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02051827857519159837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552083088916942937.post-70364695790867072392013-10-05T07:20:03.947-07:002013-10-05T07:20:03.947-07:00Hi Julie! I'm excited to have tagged by you a...Hi Julie! I'm excited to have tagged by you and I'm looking forward to next Friday. (Although I don't think I can match the glowing ears!) Diane Mayrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767689319000732296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552083088916942937.post-15769700385591914372013-10-05T06:51:27.296-07:002013-10-05T06:51:27.296-07:00I think you REALLY need to write a poem about the ...I think you REALLY need to write a poem about the "flashlight behind the ear lobe" trick, Julie! And then post a little reading (and demonstration) on YouTube!!!Janet Wonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06335945237210886655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552083088916942937.post-56224982726197820062013-10-05T00:11:28.710-07:002013-10-05T00:11:28.710-07:00TEE HEE! Oh, and GUFFAW!
What an adorable Mortime...TEE HEE! Oh, and GUFFAW!<br /><br />What an adorable Mortimer Minute this is. And I LOVE that you are being haunted by a Yeats poem. We should all have such problems.<br /><br />SEA FEVER has been on my list of classic poems to perform for two years now. I recently noticed that all the classics I do are "dark and haunting," as Laura puts it, so this would fit right in. And I have the perfect setting for it.<br /><br />Thanks for having Mortimer over for a spell. You should definitely write the ears poem!Renee LaTulippehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13520719663052253627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8552083088916942937.post-38649944116028582282013-10-04T20:07:00.793-07:002013-10-04T20:07:00.793-07:00Love the whiskers--ha!
What a gorgeous, gorgeous ...Love the whiskers--ha!<br /><br />What a gorgeous, gorgeous poem. The poem I almost shared by Esbensen is about seagulls and the sea. It's called "The Return," and if you click here: http://books.google.com/books?id=yqRo70ExYvEC&pg=PT15&lpg=PT15&dq=%22barbara+juster+esbensen%22+and+%22wedge+of+cry%22&source=bl&ots=_iNWKY_gEy&sig=1-FzgutIuQbtfcEmxBqNJGi0KtA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=bYFPUqG2MMegyAHM14GYCg&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22barbara%20juster%20esbensen%22%20and%20%22wedge%20of%20cry%22&f=false Yikes, sorry that is so long! But if you click on that and then search for "wedge," you'll see this poem, which might be my favorite of hers. Dark and haunting verse is perhaps my favorite kind of poetry. I love it in this Masefield poem--it may not seem as dark to some people, but to me there's a deep loneliness and inevitability of man's smallness and death in it. But it's beautiful and celebratory at the same time. I need to figure out how some poets make that magic!laurasalashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807781795919555208noreply@blogger.com