A taste of poetry

First day of Fall! Well its not today, it already passed but I was hoping for something a little brighter for my blog so in honor of fall, this is what I came up with, we'll see how long it lasts. (It didn't last long...I had the orange leaf background but it was too light at the top so at least this one is brownish, which is a fall color!)

Can I just say, I love fall but it still doesn't quite seem like fall. I think it might be because I am in Mississippi and it still feels like summer and spring. One of these days, however, I want to get some of those cinnamon broom sticks, pine cones, or something to help bring in the scents of fall! I should get some candy corn and pretty fall flowers too and put them in the quad. Not sure when that will happen but a girl can try, right?

Whew now that we got that taken care of...

I didnt realize how much I like children's poetry/mother goose rhymes. I read three books of them late last night and found a few I really liked so I thought I'd pass them along :)

The following are from Amen Brother Ben, A Mississippi Collection of Children's Rhymes by Marice C. Brown

"Remember-
Never let a kiss fool you
And never let a fool kiss you."

"G.I. Haircut,
G.I. Hat,
G.I. This and
G.I. That.
G.I. Love you,
G.I. Do
G.I. Hope you love me too."

"Read see that me?"
up will I love
and you love you
down and you. Do

*this one you read down and then up, down and then up

These three were written by kids in something called Autograph books, kind of like how we would sign a yearbook. If only I knew this when I was in middle and high school!

Sing-Song, A Nursery Rhyme Book for Children
by Christina G. Rossetti

I love the play on words in this one!

"....The peacock has a score of eyes
With which he cannot see;
The cod-fish has a silent sound,
However that may be;

No dandelions tell the time,
Although they turn to clocks:
Cat's-cradle does not hold the cat,
Nor foxglove fit the fox."

This one's good too!

"If all were rain and never sun,
No bow could span the hill;
If all were sun and never rain,
There'd be no rainbow still."

Don't worry, I also read Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. I picked at least 3 favorites from this one but I shall just leave you the titles so you can look them up when you find a spare moment and enjoy them for yourself!

1. My Shadow
2. Sun rise and set
3. To my Mother