“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…” – Henry David Thoreau

Thursday, May 26, 2016

Recipe Poems



Recipe or poem? Emily Dickinson’s recipe for “Cocoa Nut” cake. 445B: courtesy of Amherst College Archives and Special Collections by permission of the Trustees of Amherst College.

To Make a Prairie 

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, 
One clover, and a bee. 
And revery. 
The revery alone will do, 
If bees are few.

Today, you'll use Emily Dickinson's poem as a model for your own recipe poem about a body of water.  Click here and follow the directions for writing a recipe poem.


Source: Illinois.English.edu
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Amherst, Massachusetts; poet; wrote nearly 1800 poems during her lifetime

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