tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post7586505696519308010..comments2024-03-16T16:16:08.511-04:00Comments on The Miss Rumphius Effect: Choosing Three--JUST THREE--Favorites - Oh Help!Triciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350907653629775293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-26606471706417681522009-09-21T22:11:23.157-04:002009-09-21T22:11:23.157-04:00Reading your post, a poem sprang into my mind, Wal...Reading your post, a poem sprang into my mind, Walter de la Mare's Silver, which begins, "Slowly, silently, now the moon/Walks the night in her silver shoon..." It's one of those poems which still makes me shiver with delight when I read it. Emily Dickens "A narrow fellow in the grass," especially "zero at the bone," does that too me, as well. But yes, not a Kate Coombshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138566291199003171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7320080607016581524.post-81349637213058962392009-09-21T07:09:40.592-04:002009-09-21T07:09:40.592-04:00Oh my...that IS an impossible task! My very favori...Oh my...that IS an impossible task! My very favorite poems for kids share the same qualities you already mentioned.<br /><br />Probably the two most consistent for me are vivid nouns and words that make me feel like I am THERE, in that world of the poem, and poems that contain a surprise of some kind, whether that's a twist ending or just something unexpected, like a poem that makes an laurasalashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13807781795919555208noreply@blogger.com