Poetry
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One of my first recollections of hearing poetry as a child was the voice of Sterling Holloway on a Disne
y LP reciting Mother Goose Nursery rhymes while my sister and I lay sick in my parent’s bed. I have no doubt that those memories were the beginning of what would become a love affair with poetry.
Some years later, my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Clark, who was fond of quoting Shakespere (“To thine own self be true.”) and John Masefield (“I must go down to the sea again…”) rekindled that love for the sound of the word.
Later still, as a bilingual teacher, I discovered traditional children’s poems in Spanish. I loved reciting these with students – poems such as: “Luna, lunera, cascabelera…” and songs such as: “Un elefante, se balanceaba sobre una tela de araña…”
From these simple beginnings, I have come to children’s poetry. I have a huge collection of poetry books at home and at school, and while I’m a novice at writing and understanding the depth of all that poetry has to offer, I enjoy reading it, hearing it, and writing it, when time allows.
