The kids and I have returned to the habit of reading poetry. We have also gone back to reciting poetry as well. Each child has their own poet for the next few months. Robert Louis Stevenson is MIssy's poet. Rocky will be reciting poems from Christina Rossetti and Mia's poet is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Mia is learning The Arrow and the Song by Longfellow right now. What a beautiful poem!
The Arrow and the Song
I shot an arrow into the air
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.