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cherryluvr
Selected Poems of James K. Baxter | James K. Baxter, Paul Millar
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#PoetryMatters Day 26: #Test

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

TheSpineView Oh... Great choice!👍🤩🌞 11h
cherryluvr @TheSpineView thanks!! 😊 9h
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RavenclawPrincess913
A Time to Dance | Padma Venkatraman

Found one that caught my attention

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TheSpineView
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dabbe 🧡💜💛 8h
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Taylor

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.

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LibrarianRyan
1619 Project: Born on the Water | Rene Watson, Nikole Hannah-Jones
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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.

LibrarianRyan I can fully say that I thought this book was fantastic, but also realize that I am in no place to critique this book. 1d
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LibrarianRyan
Pickpick

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

LibrarianRyan dreams and reasons. And for me, one of my favorite parts was the timeline of black idioms in America. As a non-black person sometimes, I worry about accidentally saying the wrong thing. Because I know that through history, the meaning of words change. I love that this book talks about the different names Black people have been called through history, and why they‘re no longer in use. This book has a ton to offer and it‘s much more than your 1d
LibrarianRyan average picture book. 1d
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The_Penniless_Author
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#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.

BookmarkTavern I‘ve found myself thinking about the Wayside School books again recently. I think my nibling would love them. Thanks for sharing! 2d
The_Penniless_Author @BookmarkTavern It was great revisiting them with my daughter a few years back. They're just as clever and wonderfully absurd as I remembered them from when I was a kid. 2d
BookmarkTavern Oh! It looks like he wrote a new one in 2020! Now I‘m definitely going to have to revisit them. ❤️ 1d
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dabbe 🧡💜💛 1d
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AmyG
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Ha…as seen in Goodwill in Denver.

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TheBookHippie ♥️🙃 2d
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dabbe
John Keats | John Keats
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#poetrymatters
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#autumn

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

TheSpineView Lovely!🧡🍂 2d
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IndoorDame 🧡🤗🧡 2d
dabbe @IndoorDame 🧡😍💛 2d
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