HAIKU

A train's long echo
whistles calling through the night
who else is awake


  This is a short little poem based on sound.  Can you try writing your own sound poem?  What does the hum from your computer remind you of? 

TRAVELING

You can travel by car
or travel by plane.
You can go by boat,
or go by train.
But wherever you travel,
and what ever you do
take me along so I
can stay close to you.


     Here is the question for today--what is your favorite way to travel?  Can you write a poem about that today?  Personally, I really like going on the back of a flying frog.

MY TRAIN

Chug, Chug. Chug
goes the train
moving down the track.
The engine starts the front.
The caboose brings up the back.

Behind the engine 
rolls the coal car
it helps the train
travel very far.

In the middle
roll the flat cars,
and the box cars, too.
Chug, Chug, Chug.
They're coming to visit you.

     What is your favorite toy in the toy box?  Can you write a poem about it today?

    

4 AM

The clock

on my nightstand

gleams red

4 AM.

It is dark.

 I'm still a bed.

Across the night air

comes the whistle

of a train

and in my dream

I'm riding

the Santa Fe

through the rain,

through the snow,

all the way

to the moon.

Clackety-clack, clackety-clack.

I'll be there soon.

     This is one of what I call my dream poems.  Many famous poets, have written poems about their dreams.  John Barrymore, Langston Hughes, Edgar Allen Poe--
just to name a few.  My dreams are usually short.  What are your dreams like?  Do you write your dreams down?  I keep a dream journal on my night stand.
It doesn't take long to write your dreams down first thing in the morning so you can keep them.  Otherwise all those good ideas that come to you in the night get lost.  Today's challenge is to write a poem about one of your dreams.  Do you think dreams are important to your life?  Why?  What do dream poems do for you?