Blue Ridge blog

An egg-cellent blog post:

This is a post with levity and brevity in honor of all the chickens I photographed at the Goodnight Family Sustainable Development Farm in Valle Crucis this week.

Found on the internet:

1. "Chicken Poetry Reading"- a cartoon.
2. "Chicken Based pedogogy"- a method of teaching how to write poetry.
3. "Chicken Little"-The other version.
4. "Home to Roost"-a video of contemporary American poet Kay Ryan talking poetry.

Poetic Musings...

While walking around campus today I stopped at the Duck Pond to witness the waterfowl frolic, or whatever it is ducks do 'neath the golden canopy. Their webbed feet made this kinda cool pattern in the water. If someone could make this into a ring or bracelet, I'd buy it. Maybe.

Speaking of things which amuse me: Meet Thalia. She posts a current news story with a classic poem almost every day. The connection made between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Prozac is not only clever, but points out our weaknesses. The hardships and human suffering we face today along with our politics and follies are nothing new . She shows us, through the use of  poetry, that we've been here before.