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#PoetryMatters Day 26: #Test

I thought this poem was fitting for the changing seasons! 🌻🌳 📖

Found one that caught my attention

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Some women wait for themselves
around the next corner
and call the empty spot peace
but the opposite of living
is only not living
and the stars do not care.

Some women wait for something
to change and nothing
does change
so they change
themselves.

4 ⭐ I am not the right person to critique this book. I liked this book. It‘s part of the 1619 Project about the history of Black Americans and how they came to be in this country. What is unique about this book is, it‘s all poetry that creates one story. This is normally found in much bigger longer works. The illustrations are strange, but beautiful. They put emotion to the paper to match the words.

4.5 ⭐This story is precious. It reminds people that black may not be in a rainbow, but it is still a color. But it‘s not only a color, it‘s a culture, it‘s a movement. The stanzas in the stories in this book is quite well done. While not rhyming it has a cadence and a flow. It‘s slam poetry at its finest. After the story, there are fantastic things such as a playlist of songs. There are explanations on some of the stanzas within the book, such as

#sundayfunday @BookmarkTavern

Little late to the game here, but I think any kid introduced to Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl, and Louis Sachar (especially the Wayside School books) at a young age will develop a love of language and a decent sense of humor.

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#Terra

Ha…as seen in Goodwill in Denver.

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#autumn

Taking @IndoorDame's cue, here is my favorite poem on autumn. 🧡🍁💛