Riddle-ku

April is National Poetry Month, and I am celebrating with many other bloggers by writing and sharing poetry.  Please check out the hashtag #digipoetry on Twitter to find more poems written by  writers in our blogging community. 

Today I am trying a riddle-ku which has the traditional 5-7-5 syllable count, but is written from the point of view of an object or animal.  The reader tries to guess "what" has written the poem. Last year, Laura Purdie Salas wrote a riddle-ku a day for the month of April.  Check out her site to get ideas and resources for teaching riddle-kus.  These are so much fun to write for me and my students.  So read this riddle and scroll down to find the answer.

I don't sing or dance

I'm the life of the party

by mixing it up

Chex Party Mix

Poetry Challenge #4 - Night Pilot

This is National Poetry Month.  Yesterday I tried my first riddle-ku.  I have to admit, this was so much fun!

This week we had a visitor in our school and this morning our principal had a picture of this visitor in our weekly newsletter.  When I saw the picture, I just knew I had to do this again.

A pilot by night

Sending high-pitched signals by

Echolocation

A bat!

Yes, these little guys were flying around in our gym.  Our principal caught them and set them free outside.

Thank you to my fellow bloggers for letting me come along for the ride on this poetry adventure.  It is much more fun when you are writing, sharing, and learning together.  

For more poetry fun, check out these blogs from Linda, Margaret, Michelle, Julianne, and Cathy.

Poetry Challenge #3 - Riddle-ku

I am celebrating National Poetry Month by writing a poem every day.  I am not a poet, I am a teacher of writing.  Therefore, I must write so I can teach.

Today I am trying a riddle-ku which has the traditional 5-7-5 syllable count, but is written from the point of view of an object or animal.  The reader tries to guess "what" has written the poem.  Laura Purdie Salas is writing a riddle-ku a day for the month of April.  Check out her site to get ideas and resources for teaching riddle-kus

Getting to the point

while collecting the remnants

of your words to come

A Pencil Sharpener