LICKETY-SPLICKETY

Lickety-spickety
Where are we going?
Lickety-spickety
What shall we do?

Lickety-spickety
Put on your puddle boots.
Lickety-spickety
grab your umbrella too.

    We have been having monsoon rains.  It is fun to have rain.  The cacti plump up with water.  The creosote bushes blossom.  The Paloverde trees get new leaves, and if we are very lucky, we get to go out in the rain and it feels wonderfully cool.
     Lickety-spickety is a nonsense word which can mean hurry up; can you try writing a poem today that uses a rhyming nonsense word in the poem?  Have fun writing. 

A CONCRETE POEM

M

Y

U

M

B

R

E

L

L

A

My

Um

Brella

keeps

me from

getting wet.

It is so good

it's not

rained

y

e

t.

     Can you see the shape of an umbrella?  Do you know why it is closed?  I do like writing concrete poems, but more often than not, I just start out to write a poem and then after it is written, the poem tells me it wants to be concrete.  And once I know what shape the poem wants to be, it is so much fun seeing if I can shape the poem.  (Yes, I know if you are reading this post on your cell phone all the spaces have been deleted, so you can't see the concrete poem. RATS!) Have fun writing your own poem today.