Today, Helena Harper is here to share with us her latest work.
Image created by Kimberly Dawn Sanders.
THE TENNIS GAME
Eyes lasering in on the ball,
backspin,
top spin,
side spin,
no spin?
Legs running,
feet jumping,
toes tripping,
arms swinging,
heart pumping,
blood rushing,
lungs bursting,
mouth gasping,
cheeks blazing,
sweat pouring,
ball hitting,
ball missing,
ball in,
ball out,
hands clapping,
mouths shouting,
tongues cursing,
lips screaming,
racquets throwing,
movement thrilling,
endorphins fizzing,
exuberance peaking,
exhaustion winning,
eyes glowing.
Copyright © Helena Harper
Thank heavens for the wonderful child remote!
Children laughing,
screaming,
shouting,
frazzled mother
searching,
searching,
searching...
Children screaming,
shouting,
laughing,
frazzled mother
searching,
searching,
searching...
Children shouting,
screaming,
laughing,
frazzled mother
searching,
searching,
searching...
Where is it?
Can't find it?
Ah, got it!
Mute button pressed...
Ah, what quiet!
What bliss!
Did someone say
'Silence is golden'?
What a truly marvellous quote...
Thank heavens
for the wonderful child remote!
Copyright © Helena Harper
CONTEST!
Helena is running a contest on her Facebook fan page and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the page ("Hi, Helena!" is enough). Each week a free ecopy of "It's a Teacher's Life...!" will be sent to one of the commenters. If you're not successful one week, just leave a comment the next for another chance to win - it's that simple! This is the link: http://bit.ly/8IBMuE
Thanks very much!
Enjoy!
Image created by Kimberly Dawn Sanders.
ESSENCE OF LIGHT
Spread wide your armsand let the wings unfurl,soar into your essence of light,cradled by the loving energyrippling through the river of the universe,
weaving through the tapestry of time...And feel the freedom of your soul...
Copyright © 2009 Helena Harper
Spread wide your armsand let the wings unfurl,soar into your essence of light,cradled by the loving energyrippling through the river of the universe,
weaving through the tapestry of time...And feel the freedom of your soul...
Copyright © 2009 Helena Harper
THE TENNIS GAMEEyes lasering in on the ball,
backspin,
top spin,
side spin,
no spin?
Legs running,
feet jumping,
toes tripping,
arms swinging,
heart pumping,
blood rushing,
lungs bursting,
mouth gasping,
cheeks blazing,
sweat pouring,
ball hitting,
ball missing,
ball in,
ball out,
hands clapping,
mouths shouting,
tongues cursing,
lips screaming,
racquets throwing,
movement thrilling,
endorphins fizzing,
exuberance peaking,
exhaustion winning,
eyes glowing.
Copyright © Helena Harper
Thank heavens for the wonderful child remote!
Children laughing,
screaming,
shouting,
frazzled mother
searching,
searching,
searching...
Children screaming,
shouting,
laughing,
frazzled mother
searching,
searching,
searching...
Children shouting,
screaming,
laughing,
frazzled mother
searching,
searching,
searching...
Where is it?
Can't find it?
Ah, got it!
Mute button pressed...
Ah, what quiet!
What bliss!
Did someone say
'Silence is golden'?
What a truly marvellous quote...
Thank heavens
for the wonderful child remote!
Copyright © Helena Harper
Helena is running a contest on her Facebook fan page and all you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the page ("Hi, Helena!" is enough). Each week a free ecopy of "It's a Teacher's Life...!" will be sent to one of the commenters. If you're not successful one week, just leave a comment the next for another chance to win - it's that simple! This is the link: http://bit.ly/8IBMuE
Thanks very much!
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12 comments:
I love your poems!! Teachers would love that child mute button!
Great poems, Helena! I especially loved Essence Of Light. Thanks for sharing with us!
Love the illustrated poetry, Helena. When I edit poetry for my clients, I always tell them to pare out unneeded adjectives and adverbs. You're good with a paring knife. (-:
Thank you for bring this to us, Liana.
Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Author of multi award-winning The Frugal Editor, www.budurl.com/TheFrugalEditor
Thank you, Liana, for hosting me and thank you Kathy, Darcia and Carolyn for your comments.
You're right, Kathy - teachers would love that child remote. I could very much sympathise with my neighbour (a young mother) when she was telling me about how she wished she could just press a button and her children would be quiet - and that gave me the idea for the poem.
Darcia - the Essence of Light poem was written as part of a poetry contest in response to the picture you see.
Thank you, Carolyn - being such a versatile writer yourself and knowing so much about poetry, I really appreciate your comment. It's not something I ever remember formally learning, but I've come to realise how important 'paring' is when writing poetry, simply through practice.
If anyone would like to read extracts from my book "It's a Teacher's Life..." (a collection of stories in verse based on my own teaching experiences), then just go to my website
Helena
http://helenaharpersblog.blogspot.com
Sorry, Liana, I forgot to post the URL for my actual website. It's http://www.helenaharper.com
The poems are terrific. I love the illustrations!
What great poems! LOL Parents would love that child mute button too! Come to thing of it so would grandparents. :)
I like illustrations with children's poems. Not so much with adult poems. Not sure why. Thanks for sharing with us Helen. You definately have a way with words. And pictures.
STephen Tremp
Helena, thank you for being here! I was looking for your URL and then my programme got stuck and had to let it go...thanks for adding it. For the same reason I couldn't copy and paste a photo of yours at the top.
Thank you all for visiting!
Simply sweet and refreshing. Nice poems Helena. Thanks for sharing with us.
VERY cool poems. Loved the tennis one, as I am a huge tennis fan.
Nancy - pleased you liked the photos and the poems.
Karen - I've come to the conclusion that if I could design a child mute button, my fortune would be made!
Stephen - many thanks for the compliment.
Liana - I'm sorry you had trouble with the Blogger program. Not to worry about my photo. Hope all is working OK for you now.
Dana - you're welcome!
Katie - nice to meet another tennis fan! Unfortunately, I haven't been able to play tennis for over 2 years now because of a broken wrist. But I hope to be able to get back to playing a little this summer.
Helena
http://www.helenaharper.com
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