Welcome to Keri Recommends!
I’ve blogged since 2006, but had a catastrophic loss of content in June 2014. Only my text remains, minus all of the fun photos and videos I’d embedded in the blog.
I’m a happy member of the Poetry Friday blog party and post about my life, book recommendations, recipes, quotes, and poetry.
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are you the same Keri Collins that attended the Atlantic Center for the Arts a few years ago.
If so I have been trying a few musical ideas with your poetry
Alex! How are you? I am the same Keri Collins, and would love to hear what you are up to these days.
Keri, you wrote a marvelous haiku about fall that Michelle Barnes showcased on her blog. It is simple, elegant, and a glorious tribute to the beauty of autumn as the leaf stands tall to give a nod to the season. I was wondering if you might like to post this poem in the “Finding Fall Gallery” that I am creating. If so, you can see my thoughts at http://beyondliteracylink.blogspot.com/2014/09/falling-into-place-as-season-turns.html. Thanks for sharing the message fall brings in your haiku.
I want to follow this blog
Thanks, Tabitha! I thought I had fixed it but I hadn’t so thanks for this message. I think it’s fixed now — there’s a place to put in your email on the bottom of the blog. Let me know if you have any trouble.
Helo Keri,
I so enjoyed reading all the many interesting comments and learning about upcoming author and illustrator, Suzy Lee, and the reverso poems. I feel excited and challenged by the invitation to write one! But I would like to try one that would have a comforting sentiment once written in reverse. I think I will try (smile). Thanks for hosting this blog. Leslie Skimmings
Hello, again!
I tried writing a reverso haiku, but it doesn’t quite work. It has about the same meaning either way you read it. But here it is, and I would welcome a photo to go with it if anyone has one to share. Thanks.
ah! a bit of flame
a flash of fire to warm the whitescape
this cardinal in flight
-Leslie Skimmings
Opps, the beat is off. How’s this one? Better?
ah! a bit of flame
a flash fire to warm the whitescape
cardinal in flight
-Leslie Skimmings
I like them both, Leslie! I like the contrast between “flash fire” and “whitescape.” You could invent your own compound word with “flashfire”!
So glad you liked the haiku, Keri. Thank you!
Hey Kerri, I met your husband Mark at the gym Monday. Wonderful guy, he said you could recommend some good books to read with my 5 and 6 yr old girls.