Once again, fellow writer/blogger Michelle H. Barnes has had a massive response to a little challenge, and I’m happy to be included among those who participated!
Earlier this month, Michelle interviewed children’s poet and blogger (yes, we’re all bloggers!) Amy Ludwig VanDerwater about writing, inspiration, and her brand-new book, Every Day Birds (Orchard/Scholastic, 2016). Amy challenged readers to write poems about “small things.” All March long, folks have been submitting their poems…and today Michelle is sharing all of them on her blog!
Click HERE to read my poem as well as all of the poems that Michelle has received, and for all of today’s Poetry Friday links and fun, please visit Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe!
(Oh, and if you’re wondering what it’s like to be a stay-at-home parent trying to raise two kids while running a business AND being a children’s writer, I share a little insight in this past Tuesday’s post!)
========================================================
Radio, Rhythm & Rhyme 
Thank you for pointing your readers in my direction, Matt, and most especially for your own perceptive little ditty. Atoms? Photons?? Quarks??? Bosons???? Somehow you always find a way to baffle and delight me with your words.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Michelle, I really appreciate that! As I’ve told you before, I just try to find an angle no one else has gone. Sometimes it works, sometimes…well, you know!
LikeLike
Love your poem, Matt. You really took “little” to heart! 🙂
LikeLike
Glad you liked it, Tabatha! I figured as long as we were talking ‘small’ I’d go all the way!
LikeLike
I, too, enjoyed your space-y poem. Thank you! (And yes, juggling all these roles can be really tough! Thanks for your tips.)
LikeLike
Thank YOU, Irene, for your support – and I’m looking forward to the Progressive Poem again!
LikeLike
You might be dedicated as a delver and a digger,
But if you cast your gaze aloft–there’s always something bigger.
Loved your scholar/smaller rhyme, Matt. Both directions lead wide, don’t they?
LikeLike
Thanks, Heidi! Ha, true, there’s always something bigger AND smaller…which makes one ponder even deeper, yes?
LikeLike
It’s certainly “little”, & says much about our world, ever growing in what we know. I think your might go beautifully in a child’s science magazine, Matt.
LikeLike
Had’t thought of that, Linda – but you may be right! Thanks!
LikeLike
Nice one, Matt! Very small indeed.
LikeLike
Thanks, Brenda!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Love your small poem, Matt. It’s amazing to me how much we don’t know about our universe! I wonder what the next discover will be.
LikeLike
Thanks, Catherine. As Heidi mentioned, no matter how ‘big’ or ‘small,’ we are constantly discovering new things!
LikeLiked by 1 person
FORREST POWER!!!!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Well, she said to write about small things…I just went as small as I could!
LikeLike
An entire universe to explore in such a tiny point. A universe of love and opportunity to find in those demands. We can get lost in the big and the small. Take a deep breath and you’ll find your way.
LikeLike
Thank you, Dori!
LikeLike