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ry month 2026 poems april 1 listening listening april 2 clicking kitty april 3 spring morning april 4 tea april 5 team april 6 from far away april 7 on a day of april snows april 8 breakfast april 9 beep beep beep april 10 now april 11 but why april 12 winter warmies april 13 better than a touch screen april 14 swish of the brush april 15 heartbeat april 16 robin sparrow april 17 a good meal april 18 their notes april 19 the show april 20 performance april 21 grandfather clock april 22 our maillady zooms april 23 potato chips april 24 this fire april 25 sneeze music april 26 winter morning wondering here is poem 27 students living near the woods as i do at this time of year i will often hear woodpeckers loudly drumming on distant trees claiming territory and calling in mates the speaker in today s poem describes a woodpecker drilling and then speaks directly to the woodpecker itself when a poet speaks to something not present this is called an apostrophe poem the last few lines of today s poem address an absent woodpecker as the speaker thinks about its territory its claiming its life so different than that of the human speaker which faraway person or animal or object might your speaker address in a poem what might your speaker say to this person or animal or object remember the speaker of your poem need not be you the speaker of your poem can be anyone or anything at all real or imagined and if you wish you might even take a poem you already wrote and now revise it somehow as an apostrophe poem we can always turn our poems inside out and upside down they re ours to play with to learn about many of the wonderful national poetry month projects happening online this april visit the generous jama rattigan at jama s alphabet soup my hope for you today is that you will hear a nature sound that surprises you xo a please share a comment below if you wish know that your comment will only appear after i approve it if you are under 13 years old please only comment with a parent or as part of a group with your teacher posted by amy lv at 12 02 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels nature poem of address apostrophe poem woodpecker sunday april 26 2026 listen day 26 as i strive to become a better listener and to connect more with my sense of hearing national poetry month 2026 finds me writing daily handwritten index card poems inspired by sounds and listening i have begun a new notebook to collect the sounds i notice throughout the month and i will reflect on them in short poems my ears and my heart are open wide i invite you to join me in this project on any of my projects from the past 16 years or on a project of your very own to do so simply write a poem each day of april in any way you wish share or don t share as you wish your poems are your poems your projects are your projects and if you wish learn a bit more about writing poetry i welcome you to the short lessons in the tab above coaxing poems videos 2024 national poetry month 2026 poems april 1 listening listening april 2 clicking kitty april 3 spring morning april 4 tea april 5 team april 6 from far away april 7 on a day of april snows april 8 breakfast april 9 beep beep beep april 10 now april 11 but why april 12 winter warmies april 13 better than a touch screen april 14 swish of the brush april 15 heartbeat april 16 robin sparrow april 17 a good meal april 18 their notes april 19 the show april 20 performance april 21 grandfather clock april 22 our maillady zooms april 23 potato chips april 24 this fire april 25 sneeze music here is poem 26 students something i have noticed this month is that our home is a pretty quiet home we live on a country road with almost no traffic our children are grown we do not keep tv or radio on in the background we do not play video games and our cats while not totally quiet are not boisterous so as the month has gone on i have needed to push myself to think of sounds this one is a seasonal sound one we only hear during certain though many months of the year plows are loud and i loved that lie a bed time of wondering if snowy days would become official snow days for me for mark for our children for folks who live in cold climates snow days are sweet surprises one way to gather ideas for writing sound ideas or other ideas is to fold a piece of paper into four quadrants or take four separate sheets of paper and label each with one of the seasons spring summer winter fall then under each heading list some sounds or memories or images that come to you related to that season our lists will all be different depending on the weather where each of us lives to learn about many of the wonderful national poetry month projects happening online this april visit the generous jama rattigan at jama s alphabet soup i wish you a fun to think about question today xo a please share a comment below if you wish know that your comment will only appear after i approve it if you are under 13 years old please only comment with a parent or as part of a group with your teacher posted by amy lv at 12 02 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels plow question snow day snowstorm winter wonder saturday april 25 2026 listen day 25 as i strive to become a better listener and to connect more with my sense of hearing national poetry month 2026 finds me writing daily handwritten index card poems inspired by sounds and listening i have begun a new notebook to collect the sounds i notice throughout the month and i will reflect on them in short poems my ears and my heart are open wide i invite you to join me in this project on any of my projects from the past 16 years or on a project of your very own to do so simply write a poem each day of april in any way you wish share or don t share as you wish your poems are your poems your projects are your projects and if you wish learn a bit more about writing poetry i welcome you to the short lessons in the tab above coaxing poems videos 2024 national poetry month 2026 poems april 1 listening listening april 2 clicking kitty april 3 spring morning april 4 tea april 5 team april 6 from far away april 7 on a day of april snows april 8 breakfast april 9 beep beep beep april 10 now april 11 but why april 12 winter warmies april 13 better than a touch screen april 14 swish of the brush april 15 heartbeat april 16 robin sparrow april 17 a good meal april 18 their notes april 19 the show april 20 performance april 21 grandfather clock april 22 our maillady zooms april 23 potato chips april 24 this fire here is poem 25 students this little poem goes back and forth between the voice of the sneezer and the voice of the blesser the sneezer s sneezes are on the left the blessers blessings are on the right and the two voices come together at the end with a relieved phew i have often been the blesser in this sneezy situation and when i wrote today s poem i found myself thinking about the different ways that people sneeze sometimes there s an accent on the first syllable ah choo sometimes there s an accent on the second syllable ah choo sometimes both syllables are equally accented sometimes soft and sometimes loud i chose to use capital letters to indicate the accented syllables today so that readers know which syllables to stress when reading each sneeze sounds different you probably noticed that i matched the capital letters to each sneeze and blessing if you pay attention to the conversations in your day you might discover a poem silly or serious that is hiding in a conversation to learn about many of the wonderful national poetry month projects happening online this april visit the generous jama rattigan at jama s alphabet soup stay healthy my dear friends xo a please share a comment below if you wish know that your comment will only appear after i approve it if you are under 13 years old please only comment with a parent or as part of a group with your teacher posted by amy lv at 7 38 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels poem for two voices sneeze sneeze music stressed syllables friday april 24 2026 listen day 24 as i strive to become a better listener and to connect more with my sense of hearing national poetry month 2026 finds me writing daily handwritten index card poems inspired by sounds and listening i have begun a new notebook to collect the sounds i notice throughout the month and i will reflect on them in short poems my ears and my heart are open wide i invite you to join me in this project on any of my projects from the past 16 years or on a project of your very own to do so simply write a poem each day of april in any way you wish share or don t share as you wish your poems are your poems your projects are your projects and if you wish learn a bit more about writing poetry i welcome you to the short lessons in the tab above coaxing poems videos 2024 national poetry month 2026 poems april 1 listening listening april 2 clicking kitty april 3 spring morning april 4 tea april 5 team april 6 from far away april 7 on a day of april snows april 8 breakfast april 9 beep beep beep april 10 now april 11 but why april 12 winter warmies april 13 better than a touch screen april 14 swish of the brush april 15 heartbeat april 16 robin sparrow april 17 a good meal april 18 their notes april 19 the show april 20 performance april 21 grandfather clock april 22 our maillady zooms april 23 potato chips here is poem 24 students in truth a fire in the fireplace may not rustle the last words of trees for those trees become ash which returns to the soil which becomes plants which feed animals which make new noises but for this poem the actual tree wood is sharing its last words as a fire in our home i adore a good wood fire and thank goodness for that as we heat much of our home with wood and so this means stacking wood carrying wood and loading wood into the wood stove fortunately we do not need to cut the trees down and up as we barter firewood for use of tapping some of our maples for syrup today s poem feels a little bit sad and a little bit grateful to me are there any sounds in your life that have a feeling attached to them our kitties purrs make me feel loved and a loved one s sniffle makes me feel a bit worried irene is hosting today s poetry friday roundup over at live your poem with so much goodness from new book joy welcome some starry night to a new artspeak women poem each poetry friday all are invited to share poems poem books poetry ideas and friendship in this open and welcoming poetry community to learn about many of the wonderful national poetry month projects happening online this april visit the generous jama rattigan at jama s alphabet soup now i am thinking about what the last words of trees might be what are you thinking about xo a please share a comment below if you wish know that your comment will only appear after i approve it if you are under 13 years old please only comment with a parent or as part of a group with your teacher posted by amy lv at 12 02 am 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fire grateful last words personification trees winter older posts home subscribe to posts atom welcome my name is amy ludwig vanderwater and i have been blogging in this ad and ai free space since 2010 and now post on many fridays and every day of april national poetry month i welcome you to poke around xo a happy poem in your pocket day poem in your pocket day is today april 30 i wrote this book imagining the poems that animals might write if they carried poems in their own pockets from horseshoe crab to wolf to hummingbird learn more by clicking the picture of the book search poems national poetry month 2026 national poetry month 2026 finds me writing handwritten index card poems inspired by sounds and listening click the image to read about my past projects school visits i am now scheduling assemblies writing workshops and teacher staff development for 2026 2027 please contact allyson hickey through booked authors by clicking the image above xo amy book peek here is a poem from my book if this bird had pockets a poem book full of facty poems written in the voices of animals this book beautifully illustrated by emma virjan is a book for poem in your pocket day this friday to learn more about it click the image above time travel the poem farm is 16 years old and holds hundreds of poems visit this spot each week to revisit a poem from the past if you have one you d like to see again please just send me a note this one is from 2016 xo a sing along with the sound of kindness my talented friend barry lane set the sound of kindness to music and sings and strums it here click the image above to sing with barry and please let me know if you do xo a new thoughts i welcome you to read my post at the colorado reading association blog writing ideas keeping it real find the post by clicking the link above xo a podcast it is a delight to visit with ruth ayres and becca burk at their wise and hopeful podcast sticky hope in this episode we talk about kindness in the classroom and my magination press book the sound of kindness click the image to listen podcast it is an honor to visit the two writing teachers podcast where i speak with stacey shubitz about igniting a passion for poetry i have been teaching poetry for about 25 years now and there will always be so much for me to learn click the image to listen for teachers this is my poetry book for teachers filled with over 50 poems by contemporary poets and over 100 poems by young people this practical book is teeming with lessons and writing ideas click the image above to listen to the podcast in which i speak about this book social media teacher friends if you happened to follow me on twitter or instagram i am no longer on any meta platforms you may find me at bluesky at amylvpoemfarm xo amy poetry videos i created 10 short videos in 2024 each one about a different aspect of writing poetry and each about 10 minutes long these are for young writers and old writers find them all at the tab atop this blog coaxing poems xo a newest book my newest book the sound of kindness is linked at the image above where you can hear me read it and find an educator guide sharing all kinds of ways to celebrate kindness in the classroom and in life xo a spring 2021 january 2021 that missing feeling illustrated by morena forza and published by magination press is a picture book i wrote about the feeling of missing something and how writing can help us through these times it is not a story not a poem book and it has many ideas for notebookers in the back writing chats friends my 72 free and ad free notebooking videos are still available march 2020 iif you d like to make a butterfly pencil yourself ryan made a template which you can find at bit ly butterflypencil xo amy song with barry lane sometimes my good friend barry and i...