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POETIC LAURELS
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Poetic
Laurels on the Web
2007
JOSIE WHITEHEAD
Josie's Poems and
you sure find her all over the web as you surf through the
Kidsfreesouls
Google Search!
You will discover
a treasure trove of freely available poems with attached voice
recordings to both to enhance your reading of the poems and to
help with the difficulties of the English language on
Josie's Poems.
A poet employs the
appropriate rhythm, music and word pictures to invest his
creation with beauty. And here's Josie Whitehead, a Poet and a
teacher, who enjoyed working with children and has her poetic
spell on them. Her poems range from fun story poems with rhyme
and rhythm which younger children especially enjoy. Even if you
like Poetry, Josie's poems are all for the young and old too!
Josie's Journey
began as an English Teacher in Yorkshire,
who started
writing poetry twelve years ago and she discovered the joys of
writing poetry. She is
married to Mike,
who make the website for the poems and she has a lovely two
delightful little grandchildren. Josie offered her services as a
volunteer in a local school to read out poems when she first
read her poem
"Mickledy-Me"
who is a really
naughty invisible friend. The children were too happy to
interact with her about their visible friends too. She
then wrote
"Mickledy-Me Goes
to School"
and the children loved this poem too. As a result, Josie decided
to go on the web and share her Poetic verses to all children
round the globe. Josie says, "You don't just want to spend your
life using simple words when the English language is so packed
with wonderful language. I have also written poems in completely
different styles so that you can see that, although rhyming and
rhythmic poems are lots of fun, there are many more different
ways to express yourselves poetically. Blank verse can be great
fun, Petrarchan sonnets extremely hard to keep to the rigid
guidelines needed." As such, Josie has made use of the
Petrarchan Sonnet, better known as Italian Sonnet as she
experiments with the same in some of her Sonnet forms. This
consist of more rhymed lines than any other Sonnet. The
Petrarchan Sonnet consist of an octave eight line stanza
followed by a six line stanza. The rhyme scheme of the Octave is
abbaabba. The sestet (six line stanza) rhyme scheme varies but
often is cdecde or abcdcd. This style is influenced by Petrarch,
a great Italian poet who had an unparalleled influence on world
Literature who wrote more than 400 poems in Italian. Josie also
is keen to use the Blank verse consisting of unrhymed lines of
iambic pentameter. Paradise Lost by John Milton is one example
of a Blank Verse.
Josie has
wonderful word play and rhyme in some of her unique poems found
in her
Subject areas like World Issues (Environmentally Friendly,
Don't let the World Die, Slavery 2007 and Sept 11) as we find
the concerns worldwide. You can find a wider topic area here.
What impresses a reader is the vivid imagination she portrays
with her keen love for children and nature as well as we see her
flair of writing skills all through her poetry compositions.
Some of Josie's
poems just dance across the page, some teach you some
educational facts, and some, stir up a discussion in the
classroom. Being a teacher, she has lot of unique ideas and
Lesson Plans for use of Poetry in the classroom. She brings
poetry to life in classrooms. Her Poetry style is varied and so
is her subject area. She aims to teach iambic feet and
trochees apart from the rhyme and rhythm, style and phonics as
she has even recorded her poems to download on your ipod and or
just listen Online. Josie has wonderful resources too, with Help
for Teachers and Students and Help for Parents and Teachers with
Literacy.
A lot more for kids to make
Birthday cards, links to resource sites, etc.
Children can make cards
with Josie's poems as card insets.
Josie has adopted the latest
technology and embraced the Skype. You can introduce your
Classroom to Skype by meeting Josie and listening her poetry as
she reads out her creations. Children will love to meet the
Poet, listen to her, interact with her and show her what they
are doing.
Josie is actively involved
with Schools, Libraries, Literature Festivals and special
events.
So, here's Josie's Poems on
the Web with more to feature Random Pick of
Josie's Poem on Kidsfreesouls. And,
JOSIE WHITEHEAD - POET OF THE YEAR 2007
- a rare selection for all
Teachers, Parents, Children and all interested in Poetry. Enjoy!
Josie with Jessica
and Daniel - Her Grandchildren
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Poetic
Laurels on the Web
2006
NIKHIL
PAREKH
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary awarded Blog, the word of the
year" in 2004. In that particular year, the percentage of
Internet users who had read blogs spiked sharply from 17% to 27%.
It's 2006 and the Blogging is become a 'Revolution'. About one in
five Internet users visit blogs. Estimated at more than 700,000
worldwide, the topics range from News & current affairs,
Literature & Poems, Books & music reviews, arts &
photography, Religion & spirituality, Food & Drink or
recipes, Tech briefs or Games, to Personal Diaries, Hobbies -
blogging has as many applications and varieties you can imagine or
say, you can cope to write. Why, even ‘Corporate
Blogging’ is on a rise and the major revolutionary
‘Promotional Campaign in the Business world.
Nikhil Parekh, an Ahmedabad based Poet is
blogging his way to fame with the most largest, longest and most
prolific Poetry Blog on the web.
His blog http://www.nikhilparekh.blogspot.com
already has 550 posts in just 7
days of blogging. At the rate of 60 posts a day, he
would be rolling 2060 posts within the end of the month with a
word count of over 13.6 lac words and 8000 pages. This would be
the Largest/Longest/Most prolific blog on the Internet
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A born genius and a Poet, Nikhil Parekh is the
recipient of several international awards and has been published
in the World's leading magazines and websites. A complete listing
of his poems, awards, media coverage can be viewed at his website http://www.nikhilparekh.com.
He is a 24 X 7 fantasy man, immersed into winds of poetry and
admiring God's infinite natural creations. Nikhil has to his
credits 2000 plus poetry written in categories like Anti Terror, World
Peace, Environment & Wildlife Conservation, HIV & Aids
Awareness, Immortal Love, Friendship, Humanity, Unity, Adopting
the Girl Child and many other countless global topics. A recipient
of Limca Book of World Records India in December 2005 for ‘Most
number of letters written to and received from World Leaders and
World Organizations’, this category of record was created for
the first time in 17 year old history of the Limca book. The Limca
Book of world records 2006 will include the information. Nikhil is
set to win with his accomplishments and his records will also
appear in 2006 in the EPPIE award 2006 for best poetry e-book
entering the EPPIE award winning lists as the first Indian in the
history of the award . This record entry of the poet would be
published in the 2007 edition of the Limca Book of Records.
International EPPIE Awards are the highest honor given in the
world to e-books in every genre of writing. They are awarded
annually by EPIC-Electronically published Internet Connection, www.epicauthors.org
in the USA. With many more feathers in the cap, Nikhil ‘s poem
has been selected in an anthology ‘Spirit of Humanity’ which
will be released at the AFABW 6th Annual Arts Festival
in Hollywood in October 2006.
Nikhil Parekh has
published more than 54 different Poetry Book titles which is
available for sale in print and Electronic format on websites like
www.cafepress.com , www.lulu.com
, www.authorsden.com , www.ebookomatic.com
etc. His poems on globally compelling issues have also been
adapted into Flash Poetry Movies which are a rare and unique blend
of Poetry- heart rendering music and vibrant images, by www.flashpoetry.net.
A classic and
Contemporary Poet, Nikhil Parekh emerged to shine with modern
poetry, as varied and as flexible as the world we live in. A new
and unique form of poetry, that relates to language and
expression. His war poems are filled with the bizarre and terrible
pain with expressions of psychological and moral realities. His
love poems emerge with musical pauses. He writes with a passion
and impulsively with lyricism and romanticism. Some of his poems
has the foot-verse metre involving both the number of syllables
and the position of the stressed syllables. He has scaled to
Imagery levels in his some poetical forms with language that
creates sensations in mind. These sensations, or images are often
thought of as being like pictures and we sense the meaning of his
words. He is found to depict reality and concerns in form of
poetry with expertise. Some of his poetry are free verse whereas
some reflect the feel of sonnets. Some poems have adoped the style
of alliteration, consonance and assonance. His words spell
magic with openness and honesty and influences his role as
'Inspirational Role Model' to the younger generation with the
rhythm and rhyme.
As Nikhil Parekh
enjoys the joy of achievement, his accomplishments are featured on
his website at http://www.nikhilparekh.com/asp/accomplish.asp to
sight links and information pertaining to Parekh’s unique
records, achievements, publications and awards. You can also
download his World Record Electronic Poetry Book in pdf format
published by Universal
Journal, US – The association of Young Journalists &
Writers. This e-book measures over 7030 pages, over 2000 poems by
Nikhil Parekh and 12.4 lac words.
Indeed, Nikhil has
achieved greatness by making spaces on web with his website and
blogs. Space to be
creative, space to reflect, space to pursue dreams. He has put his
best resources on the web with bigger opportunities to scale
higher to newer heights. Every dream that started off small grows
step by step. It’s the attitude that makes a difference . Dream
Big and you can do it – Nikhil Parekh shines on the web – You
can do it too!
KAVYA BY NIKHIL
PAREKH
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RANDOM PICK OF JOSIE'S POEM |
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Rhyming is contagious
By Josie Whitehead |
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Did you know that:
Rhyming is contagious
Well this is what we’re told.
It quickly spreads through children
But it’s dreadful when you’re old.
It’s passed by reading poetry –
Or rhymes passed from your mouth.
It travels quickly through the schools
And runs from north to south.
When I visit children’s classrooms
And read them a little rhyme –
The children catch my rhyming –
It takes just a little time.
I feel guilty as I leave them-
When I think what I have done.
But the teachers seem quite happy
For it’s part of Key Stage One. |
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More Poems Like This,
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DAY
OF EXAMS
By Josie Whitehead |
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Today is the day when the raindrops patter;
When the wind blows and the leaves scatter.
Today my mind’s running hither and thither.
It’s a day when my nerves feel all in a dither.
Through the pattering rain and leaves that blow –
Nearer and nearer to the school I go –
Amidst forming chaos and the panic stations,
The churning stomach and the expectations -
To a desk in the corner with a paper and pen.
Then I’m on the starting line, flag waved and then –
Its eyes to paper, the mind on the job –
Now, brain in gear – how my temples throb!
I must read the questions, have time to think –
Then its pen to paper and here comes the ink.
Read what you’ve written – did you comprehend?
“Time’s up, stop writing, your exams at an end.” |
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Josie lives in
Ilkley, in the Yorkshire Dales,
which is in the north of England, not far from Leeds. A beautiful
place on earth and she write poems about the beauty of God's
heaven on earth, the beauty of the animals and birds around her.
Josie posing with
her little Jack Russell Terrier, Gemma, who, sadly, died at the
age of eighteen and a half years. |
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WOMAN WHY WEEPEST THOU?
- By Josie Whitehead
(A Poem for Easter about Mary Magdalen - a True Disciple of Jesus) |
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I weep with those who’ve lost men they adored,
Whose fathers, sons and husbands are no more;
Their young lives spent by cruelties of war –
By gunfire, bombs by torture or the sword.
I weep for those brave souls who, in their lives
Faced death for values decent folk uphold.
Faced hatred, degradation – things untold –
Returned no more to family, friends and wives.
I weep for Him who sadly paid the price
For preaching love and caring to mankind.
Who healed the sick, the leper and the blind.
Did this, for other people, not suffice?
“But weep no more, sweet Mary, do not grieve –
Look on me now, sweet lady, strong and brave.
See, Death cannot contain me in its grave.
I live today for those who can believe.”
Copyright 2008
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This poem highlights Mary Magdalen, a woman who I feel is much
overlooked in the Bible, but who was constantly by the side of the
one who she loved so much – Jesus. She stood by him, when his male
disciples fled; she watched him die, and was amongst the first of
the mourners at the tomb. Many women weep for the men in their
lives who are taken from them because they have stood up for what
they believed was right, and Mary Magdalen would empathise with
them as this happened to her. This poem, not only highlights the
fact that she was the first to realize that Jesus had not died,
but that she saw clearly that he still lived, and this is why it
is more important to concentrate on the empty cross
rather than the cruxifix, on Easter Day, I think.
This poem is written in iambic pentameter with rhyming that was
popular in Petrarchan sonnets: abba etc
- Josie Whitehead
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