What Baby Sarah Knows – A Poem

baby I have been known to carry a thermos of my green drink just about everywhere. I wrote this poem after yet another grandchild asked to taste it and then ran to spit it out. The drink is called Bieler’s Soup, after Dr. Henry Bieler, who developed it. It consists of...

Mommy’s Lap – A Poem

mom From time to time I’ll share a poem I’ve written for children, often from the child’s point of view. I wrote this poem after watching a very young child bravely try to adjust to the new baby who had recently joined the family. Mommy’s Lap I love my baby brother,...

On Discovering I Could Draw

art Whenever I give workshops to elementary school students – usually on art, calligraphy, and poetry or some combination thereof, I always share with them my work-in progress. I will read to them and show them illustrated pages and they will be enthralled and always...

Girls – A Poem

girl From time to time I’ll share a poem I’ve written for children, often from the child’s point of view. I wrote this poem for a workshop I did for a class of third grade girls. I wanted to make them smile – and teach them iambic tetrameter! Girls Melissa schemes and...