On the way home from the gym this evening, I listened to Fresh Air on NPR, specifically a segment about haiku, and even more specifically, about haiku on TWITTER!!! I had no idea! Here's the link
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=127774103&m=127834132
This guy actually goes further and talks about poetry, the lack of which in children's lives he laments.....which reminded me of poems I had memorized in my life...
We performed The Highwayman (author?) ("and the highwayman goes riding, riding, riding....") in 7th grade at the 8th grade graduation.....
I learned I Must Go Down To the Sea Again (wrong title?) by John Masefield, I think probably at the British school I attended for 6th grade in Lagos, Nigeria.
Again, nostalgia. Seriously started to get into the memory of being a pre-teen, so earnest, so self-conscious, such a little smartie-pants.
Well, that's enough of that! Thanks, Fresh Air!
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