Q2Ink - The Studio

Morning Creek Elementary School

Poway, CA

Third grade students listen as Mary reads poetry from her book "By Fools Like Me," and "Going Home."

Mary enjoys telling children about her favorite form of poetry: Odes, where the poet becomes the object of the poem and looks at things through the object's eyes. Here she reads:

I AM THE WIND

I am the wind

I fluff clothes to help them dry

Lift wings so birds can fly

Turn water wheels - light up the sky

I electrify

Bells ring for me, flags will wave

I dance - I howl - I misbehave

Hear me echo through dark caves

Undisciplined

I am the wind

25 AUG 2006

Petersburg Library

Petersburg, West Virginia

April 24, 2004
Tatiana & Erika
Dottie Hughes, Phyllis Puglese, Mary Bishop
Mary reading in Petersburg, West Virginia - the town where she was born.  Granddaughter Erika and great granddaughter Tatiana drove all the way from Alexandria, Virginia to attend this event.

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Mary read: 

LOVE LETTERS

Heart songs -

Emotions too difficult to sing out loud

But flow freely

When only the pen and paper

Are there to listen.

Poetry -

Ways of saying I love you

Using ordinary words

To write extraordinary things

To someone who has borrowed

Your heart for a lifetime.