In honor of Poetry Month, Easter, Passover,
and all things rabbity, my free-verse picture book,
To Rabbittown, originally published by Scholastic,
is 99 cents on iTunes, Kindle, Nook–yippee!
Download the free Kindle for PCÂ
if you don’t have an eReader.
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…for more children’s poetry links go to
this delicious blog:
Jama’s Alphabet Soup
Hi there! Welcome to RuffDrafts.com–I’m glad you’re here!
My original poems, posted each day of National Poetry Month 2013, are imperfect. Messy. This is your chance to sneak a peek behind the scenes—before a poem is polished and published! (For my poems in 2010, 2011 & 2012, click on the Poetry link in the menu above.)
My friend Bruce Balan and I critique each other’s poems every day…so you’ll see Bruce’s comments on some of the poems.
Thanks for following so well. I’m tempted to take you to the dog park and let you romp off-leash… Ready? Let’s begin!
April 5
HELLO, TREE, SAYS THE DOG
by April Halprin Wayland
Hello, Tree.
Thank you for your upright trunk—
it’s fabulous to sniff.
I love that I don’t have to beg,
when I line you up against my leg
and lift.
This is an apostrophe poem, also called a poem of address.
Bruce liked it.Â
Eli is chasing a squirrel. Up a tree.
He did not get the squirrel.
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A tree-climbing dog who reads books. That’s my kind of canine! Thanks for sharing. :0)