PoetScribe Week 3--Poems for National Poetry Month

Why Copying Poems Helps Your Brain Remember

For National Poetry Month—a free download of 12 poems, PoetScribe table of contents & blank pages for scribing.

To commemorate April’s National Poetry Month I thought it would be fun to offer Subscribers an opportunity to scribe (or copy) poems for memorizing into a notebook, all classroom-like as a way of writing and remembering poems in rhyme and meter. That sounds fun! I thought. As a retired teacher I know that writing or copying written work helps us remember. And having poems in your memory bank can only be a good thing. (For new readers, here’s some background in the first and second post about PoetScribe, introducing an opportunity to read, write and copy 12 inspiring and amusing poems, featuring both contemporary and classical poets.)

This project is perfect for crafting your own Poetry Notebook….or if you’re homeschooling kiddos.

So What’s Included this Week?

A 25-Page PoetScribe Notebook for downloading, printing and hole-punching - a la 3-ring-binder-with the following:

• A Cover Page for a your notebook/binder (pictured above)

• Table of Contents (see below) with authors and poems (all in the Public Domain or shared with permission)

• Blank pages for copying poems

• The poems themselves-12 all together

Here is the PoetScribe Notebook Table of Contents (available as an all-in-one-doc via the button below). FREE for you to use and enjoy.

Poem Number Title, Author

1. Grammar, Jody Collins (from my book Hearts on Pilgrimage)

2. VII October, K.C. Ireton, from “A Yellow Wood and Other Stories”

3. Accompaniment, Jody Collins (from my book Mining the Bright Birds)

4. A slash of Blue, Emily Dickinson

5. Ye Shall Live Also, Lucy Larcom

6. Barter, Sara Teasdale

7. Daffodowndilly, Alan Alexander Milne

8. #25 from The Church Porch, George Herbert

9. Happiness, Alan Alexander Milne

10. Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay

11. The Early Morning, Hillaire Belloc

12. There is a Budding Morrow in Midnight, Christina Rosetti

You could print everything and simply keep the pages as they are or copy down the poems included, all monk-like in your Scriptorium (or at your desk) and add your own marginalia and embellishments.

This first button will take you to the Cover Page, Table of Contents and the 12 poems

Click this button for 12 blank pages for copying poems OR your own reflections.

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I hope you’ll take advantage of this fun and inspiring project and begin your own Poetry Notebook, reading, scribing and remembering some inspiring poems!

And if there’s a glitch—email me? jodyo@jodyleecollins.com. The permissions are all set to ‘Share’ but you know how things go….

Please share a favorite poem or how these landed for you in the Comments. I love hearing from Readers!

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It took a significant amount of time to collate and create this 25 page resource for you. Should you like to honor these efforts, you can leave a tip in my tip jar.

~Jody