~ from Jill

April is National Poetry Month, and what better way to start celebrating than to chalk a poem on your driveway and sidewalk!

I found it was a great way to:

express creativity

practice penmanship

involve little ones . .(they came running, “Can I help?!”)

put color in your day

get some exercise

enjoy the sunshine (at least here in Florida)

make the Pizza Delivery-man smile (now youknow what we had for dinner)

share a poem with the world ( or at least your neighbor’s children .. )

Poems used:

“If I had a Brontosaurus,” & “Ridiculous Rose,” by Sheldon Silverstein, (ironically, from “Where the Sidewalk Ends.”)

For a list of 29 more great ideas of ways to celebrate poetry each day of the month, go to Poets.org, from the Academy of American Poets.