SOLSC 24/31 & Poetry Friday: Dilemma Solved!

Today I join my fellow bloggers in "serving up a slice" 

to the Slice of Life (SOL) community.

Thanks to Stacey, Betsy, Beth, Kathleen,

Deb, Lisa, Melanie, and Lanny

for hosting this meeting place each day in March

and for nurturing our writing lives.

Head over to Catherine's blog, 

Reading to the Core, for this week's

round-up of poetic goodness.  

Thanks, Catherine, for hosting this week!

How to solve a common dilemma . . . 

Too Many Stickies

One Minute till Bedtime

I finished this morning

but it was due

yesterday.

I had a simple plan.

Mark favorite poems

with a colorful sticky

and copy my favorites.

It wasn’t long before

I knew

I certainly

was in trouble.

Within these pages

I met friends

and filled the book

with stickies.

“Our Kittens”

by Amy

and “A Hard Rain”

by Greg.

And silly Jon Scieszka’s

“All At Once.”

A “Stuffed Animal Collection

by Eileen Spinelli.

Liz’s “This is the Hour”

and Lee’s “Sleepy” song
seem destined to

rock one to sleep.

And some I want to memorize,

Dennis Lee’s “Bigger Than Big,”

Joan’s “Tuck a Poem in Your Head,”

and Juanita’s  skimming “Canoe.”

It’s clear today

I’ll return this book

and head to the

bookstore instead.

-Ramona Behnke

Poems referenced:
"Our Kittens" by Amy Ludwig VanDerwater p. 22
"A Hard Rain" by Greg Pincus p. 37
"All At Once" by Jon Scieszka p.32
"Stuffed Animal Collection" by Eileen Spinelli p. 7
"This is the Hour by Liz Brownlee p. 65
"Sleepy" by Lee Bennett Hopkins p. 66
"Bigger Than Big" by Dennis Lee p. 50
"Tuck a Poem in Your Head" by Joan Bransfield Graham p. 106
"Canoe" by Juanita Havill p. 145

And there are more poems to love on every page of One Minute till Bedtime!