Happy Valentine’s Weekend, All!
I won’t pry into anyone’s love life, but I’m glad you poetry lovers are out and about this Poetry Friday. As promised, I have much for you to love here today.
Our Student Haiku Poet of the Month series continues with Olivia Graner.
Olivia lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is (almost) thirteen years old and is in seventh grade at The Paideia School. She lives with her mom, her dad, her nine-year-old brother, her thirteen-year-old golden retriever, and her six-year-old goldfish. Olivia is an avid writer and reader. She also enjoys musical theater, piano, ukulele, and pogo stick-ing.
“I tend to enjoy haiku because of its simplicity (or lack thereof),” Olivia says. “An American haiku must be written with fewer than seventeen syllables, which can be a blessing or a curse. Granted, with nine or ten words, not much physical writing goes in to the actual poem, but painting a scene in which to transport the reader in three or less short lines can be rather challenging (in a good way).”
I think you’ll agree Olivia is up for the challenge! Enjoy these examples of her poetry:
morning radio
voices weave their way
into my dreams
pronation
a left shoe’s sole
worn away
creak of a door
the attic’s smell
floods the hallway
silent night
wax drips from
the memory candle
frozen bird bath
feathers
atop the ice
one night only:
stage fright
killing dreams
Poems ©Olivia Graner. All rights reserved.
I’m really struck by “silent night,” though each poem “transports” as Olivia says - don't you think?
For more posts in this series featuring talented students, please click here.
And for more poetry to love this week, please visit talented teacher and author Cathy, rounding up poems to fill your heart at Merely Day by Day.
I won’t pry into anyone’s love life, but I’m glad you poetry lovers are out and about this Poetry Friday. As promised, I have much for you to love here today.
Our Student Haiku Poet of the Month series continues with Olivia Graner.
Olivia lives in Atlanta, Georgia. She is (almost) thirteen years old and is in seventh grade at The Paideia School. She lives with her mom, her dad, her nine-year-old brother, her thirteen-year-old golden retriever, and her six-year-old goldfish. Olivia is an avid writer and reader. She also enjoys musical theater, piano, ukulele, and pogo stick-ing.
“I tend to enjoy haiku because of its simplicity (or lack thereof),” Olivia says. “An American haiku must be written with fewer than seventeen syllables, which can be a blessing or a curse. Granted, with nine or ten words, not much physical writing goes in to the actual poem, but painting a scene in which to transport the reader in three or less short lines can be rather challenging (in a good way).”
I think you’ll agree Olivia is up for the challenge! Enjoy these examples of her poetry:
morning radio
voices weave their way
into my dreams
pronation
a left shoe’s sole
worn away
creak of a door
the attic’s smell
floods the hallway
silent night
wax drips from
the memory candle
frozen bird bath
feathers
atop the ice
one night only:
stage fright
killing dreams
Poems ©Olivia Graner. All rights reserved.
I’m really struck by “silent night,” though each poem “transports” as Olivia says - don't you think?
For more posts in this series featuring talented students, please click here.
And for more poetry to love this week, please visit talented teacher and author Cathy, rounding up poems to fill your heart at Merely Day by Day.