Wednesday, May 27, 2009

For a Good Time, Call...


The Bathroom Poetry Project Progressive Reading was a hoot! About 25 brave poetry fans walked with us to 15 downtown shops in Front Royal, VA on May 21 to hear great bathroom poetry. Actually, the poems had nothing to do with bathrooms--we just hung some of them in bathrooms where patrons' cannot help but see and read them.

Thanks to all who came out! We'll have another reading in a few months with a second round of poems by local adult and teen writers!

A Poem by Maggie


Here is a poem by Maggie, who is 5. Watch out, Mary Oliver!


The Butterfly Wind


I was playing outside in the grass

and my mother called me for dinner.

The berry blossoms sprang open.

It was a late night.

The dazzle blossoms sprung closed.

I walked into the house.

They were having flower dazzles.

The bluebirds burst out of their eggs

and flew over the fields of grain.

It was morning.

The bluebirds turned into giant eagles.