“Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.”
~Aileen Fisher
Read a profile of poet Aileen Fisher by Lee Bennet Hopkins.
Time for Rabbits
“Look!” says the catkin
in its gray hatkin.
“Look!” say the larks and sparrows.
“The pasture is stirring,
the willows are purring,
and sunlight is shooting its arrows.”
“Look!” wind is humming.
“Easter is coming.
Hear how the brooklet rushes.
It’s time for the rabbits
with Easter-egg habits
to get out their paints and brushes.”
from Cricket in a Thicket by Aileen Fisher.
The book Cricket in a Thicket is copyrighted 1963, and I assume my copy was printed prior to 1985, therefore banned by the CPSIA police. The illustrations in the book are pen and ink or pencil drawing by Feodor Rojankovsky, the delightfully talented illustrator whose book Frog Went A-Courtin’ won the Caldecott Medal in 1956.
Z-baby, inspired by Rojan, as he was sometimes called, and by Ms. Fisher’s poem, drew this picture with charcoals:
I’m so sorry I haven’t been around your blog for a long time. I haven’t been blogging much myself, but I just wanted to drop by and say hi, wish you a good weekend and a nice Easter and apologize for being scarce.
I am finishing my Master thesis and this takes up most of my time. Hopefully, by the end of May, I will be able to blog more and participate more around the blogosphere.
I am still reviewing books from time to time on my blog, but I am not really active.
I don’t expect you to come running visiting and commenting, I just wanted to let you know that I am very much alive and I miss reading and commenting on your blog very much.
This is a personal message written to all the blogowner, whose delightful blogs I visit on a regular basis, but it has been copy/pasted. So if you find it on other blogger’s blogs, that is why.
I look very much forward to be active again – and apologize once again for not being active the past month and not being able to be active for another month or two.
Louise,
http://louspages.blogspot.com
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