Poetry Friday: p*tag

Love, love, love this poetic post by Janet and Sylvia that Cynthia Leitich Smith was kind enough to post. Here it is again from her site. Happy Poetry Friday, everyone!

By Sylvia Vardell and Janet S. Wong
Photos by Sylvia Vardell

Who did we make P*TAG for?

P*TAG is for a girl who, like Marilyn Singer, sees a pier and hears "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay";

Or for a boy like Betsy Franco’s Ovid, who might drive on the beach some night thinking about a girl with piercings;

for Allan Wolf, who burps up kittens;

for Naomi Shihab Nye, who says:

            What if, instead of war,

            we shared our buckets

            of wind and worry?

P*TAG is for you if you are tired of aunts and uncles forever asking what you want to be when you grow up (David L. Harrison);

and for you if you can look at a crowd and see “spirits...being extracted from their bodies” (Lorie Ann Grover).

What are your wishes? Heidi Mordhorst asks: “What if there were a Come-True Tree somewhere?”

Do you have secrets?

           

            Random Buddhist manifestos.

            Tattoo designs.

            Erotic poetry.

                        (Tracie Vaughn Zimmer has mystery in her blood.)

P*TAG wants you to fall in love with a guitar player. (Kathi Appelt)

And:

           

            If some night you walk down a street

            so deep inside a chorus of sad voices

            that you cannot--simply can’t--look up,

            and it all seems impossible,

            . . .

            Take another step,

                 a slow step, another,

                        another,

                                    and another.

                                           (Helen Frost)

Play along with p*tag:

http://teenpoetrytagtime.blogspot.com

Read more about it:

www.PoetryTagTime.com

Buy it here:

Nook version: http://bit.ly/ncGiqo

Kindle version:http://amzn.to/nNsWPs

(also in the iTunes store)