Today is Post #190, ten more days to #200. I may make cupcakes.

In the 6th grade today, we read a poem in Wu-Yen-Shih Meter. Say that again, out loud, Wu Yen Shih. Ah, now here is the poem:

Pools and Wells

Rain pools heed no dreams,
but wells, deep, reach far,
drink earth's chill dark streams,
tell us who we are.

I just sought the poet by typing in the title and first half of the first line. The first entry is about Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man" (best musical EVER) :

young ones peekin' in the pool hall window after school Ya got trouble, folks, right here in .... Oho, the Wells Fargo Wagon is a-comin' down the street ...

Next is a Walter de la Mare poem reference:

George Herbert Clarke, ed. (1873–1953). A Treasury of War Poetry. 1917. 56. The Pool Rings his Bells. By Walter de la Mare ...

on to H.G. Wells:

And far away beyond the ditches and pools and the heaps was a forest on the mountain flank ...... “‘I have taken no heed of any news for many days,’ I said. ...ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wells/hg/w45tw/complete.html - 440k -

then George Sand:

The Devil’s Pool George Sand The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. ...... Despite the Cold LITTLE MARIE seemed to give no more heed to the child’s odd ...www.scribd.com/doc/395560/George-Sand-Devils-Pool - 271k -

and from Lyrics and Comments:

Fear no alder black! Heed no hoary willow! Fear neither root nor bough! Tom goes on before you .... Sand and stone, and pool and dell Fare you well! ...

But I digress.

We continued writing Lunes in ELL classes which today was one large teeming noisy chaotic and productive hive. Here are some lunes by kids in the beginning and second level ELL classes (grades 6-8):

brick scream loud
chair fall down, cry out
loud, forgive brick.

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ducks like rain
and Toyota Corolla in the
park as always.

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Sun through snow
melt the cold of season
shine our day


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I write my
story at my school and
at my house

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I saw mother
in my heart and father
in my lung

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sleep in New York
I will read in Monchasa
as you dream

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the pretty princess
she is in the castle
she has toes

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In Philippines there's
alot of fruit that they
planted and harvested

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go to Africa
to the Heaven and boxing
the people's houses

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Window is broken
wind is coming from outside
it is cold

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Superman sleep flying
Batman sleep jumping and the
Spiderman sleep webbing

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there's a book
that talks about a werewolf
that pushes rocks


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These are all lunes, the rule for which is three lines, first line three words, second line five words, third line, three words