by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : January 6, 2017 Grandkids are praying for snow. Weather forecasters are predicting snow. January is the month for snow. And I’m writing about snow. Here’s my haiku for snow. snowflakes softly drifting down one by one by one grandkids...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Three Things Thursday : January 5, 2017. On this Thursday in the first week of the first month of a new year I REJOICE in the satisfaction of endings closure conclusions and grand finales I REJOICE in the opportunities for continuation something that starts where...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : December 23, 2016 The land tilts away. Sun skims the horizon For a quarter day, shortest day Vanishing into the earliest sunset. Plunged into darkness– No sunrise, no sunset– North Pole is beyond Sun’s reach. At its lowest point, Sun stands...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : December 12, 2016. It was just past 5 AM; sunrise was more than two hours away, and the temperature hovered just above freezing. Like a shroud, fog wrapped itself around everything. While family slumbered, I stepped onto my back porch to experience a...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
Poetry Friday : December 8, 2016. A couple weeks ago, Kiesha Shepard on Whispers from the Ridge shared “Leaf Dance” followed by an Invitation to Write: “Have you ever wondered what objects would say if they could speak? I wonder about this all the...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday : November 25, 2016. My day had started with the car service picking me up at 6:45 AM. Now, after a full morning visiting classrooms, I slipped to Mr. L’s office to eat a late lunch: part from the hotel breakfast bar–hard boiled egg and...
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