Your Majesty
Lion looks so lazy, watching day-life pass,
Yet searing eyes are stalking shadows in the grass.
Inside a mighty golden throat, he stores his
Nightmare roar that sends his subjects
Galloping across the sunstruck floor.
Untamed
What
Interest have zebras in
Leather tethers or
Dusty saddles?
Since only
The wind
Reins In their
Power, and sun so
Easily
Straddles.
These poems can be drunk in quickly in long droughts of gold and dusk or drawn out lazily to savor the multiple levels. The back of the book includes notes on the African animals, information about the poetic form, and information about the photography done on location in Namibia. I would strongly recommend this book for poets and children of all ages; to absorb, enjoy and learn from in delight and surprise. If you are building your classroom or home library in preparation for a new school year you need this poetry book added to your curriculum!
Other blog reviews: (more poems from the book & photos)
Miss Rumphius (also links to an interview with Alex Harley)
books4yourkids
Kids Lit
Becky's Book Reviews
Today's Friday Poetry roundup is hosted by Heidi Mordhorst's my juicy little universe. Enjoy!
9 comments:
Ooh, this looks like a great book. Thanks for sharing.
I love how the sun plays a role in both poems. Thanks for sharing the review.
Thanks friends! I had to put comment moderation on because of all the Chinese spam. I hope it doesn't discourage anyone from "real" comments.
(Spam comments are the reason we have comment moderation on, too. Frustrating.)
I LOVE using this book to show my students models of acrostic poems that SAY SOMETHING. I work very hard to make sure my students don't write any of the acrostic drivel Heidi found on eHow.com!
Thank you for highlighting this book, Andromeda. These poems are better than many of the acrostic poems I have read.
Laura Evans
I need to get this book for my classroom. Thanks for sharing it!
Hear hear!
These are great acrostics...thank you for renewing my faith in this form, Andromeda.
A.
Hey, I just discovered your blog! Must say I'm quite impressed (and that book looks pretty awesome as well).
Nice to find a fellow book blogger ;-)
Excellent, can use these as a metaphor in some of my blogs. Thanks for sharing.
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