Our host for the 12th day of VerseLove2025 is Kate Sjostrom, a teacher educator at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
She inspires us to write our favorite literacy memory in a poem. You can read her full prompt here.
I’m sharing a pantoum today – – of the poem that started it all for me…..my deep love of poetry comes down to one poem that mesmerized me and wouldn’t turn loose. It still holds me captive, and it’s the reason I often wear green glass beads…….Overheard on a Salt Marsh, by Harold Monro!
Falling in Love with Harold Monroe
in my closet with a flashlight
reading Childcraft Volume 1: Poems and Rhymes
I fell in love with Harold
when I was 8
reading Childcraft Volume 1: Poems and Rhymes
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
when I was 8
Give them me. / No.
Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?
Your green glass beads on a silver ring
Give them me. / NO!
Hush, I stole them out of the moon.
Your green glass beads on a silver ring
I fell in love with Harold
Hush, I stole them out of the moon
in my closet with a flashlight
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