~Josephina Green
For Poetry Friday, a poem (a ghazal!) from the 2019 Rattle Young Poets Anthology:
ON FOREVER
by Josephina Green (age 8)
a ghazal
There is a road that goes on forever.
A road that is sprayed with a hose forever.
There is a girl that will paint her toes forever.
She’ll smell its odor with her nose forever.
As she takes the camera they make a pose forever.
And her dad gives her a watered rose forever...
read the rest here
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More Rattle Young Poet favorites:
Question by Saoirse Stice
The Dress by Elinor Koning
Thank God for Sheep by Arthur Santos
Oranges by Caroline Blumer
Salt City Verse has the Poetry Friday round-up. Thanks, Janice!
So much inspiration in these young voices! I, too, shop for "new dotted clothes forever". (Wearing my polka dotted dress as I type these words...).
ReplyDeleteThanks for the smile and ghazal today, Tabatha. :)
Whenever someone questions the wisdom of children, I disagree. They are not listening. Lovely poem from this young poet, Tabatha.
ReplyDeleteI've struggled myself to write a ghazal and here is a brilliant one from an 8 year old! Amazing!
ReplyDeleteThis is poem beguiling! What a great piece of work from a young poet. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYou reminded me that I received my copy of the Rattle Young Poets edition just before we moved. I laid it aside. Now, I have to get it out. Thanks for the reminder. I look forward to reading their publications.
ReplyDeleteWHAT?!?! A ghazal by an EIGHT YEAR-OLD?!?! Wowser. This girl is GOING places!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a marvelous collection of poems by these up and coming young poets—Wow,they're inspiring, thanks Tabatha!!!
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