The other night, this was on the TV. After a “what the heck was THAT!?” moment, I realized this little piece of animated goodness is the BBC’s tribute to the Olympics in Beijing.<\/p>\n
BBC’s Monkey<\/a> is apparently based on a traditional Chinese folklore Journey to the West<\/i>, and is actually pretty cool for an icon whose destiny it is to be made into a plush doll. <\/p>\n All the Olympic madness brought to mind playing games — and a poem about a favored American game in the spring and summertime.<\/p>\n by Philip E. Burnham, Jr<\/a>(from Housekeeping: Poems Out of the Ordinary<\/em>)<\/p>\n And on the ninth day, God<\/p>\n In His infinite playfulness<\/p>\n Grass green grass, sky blue sky,<\/p>\n Separated the infield from the outfield,<\/p>\n Formed a skin of clay, <\/p>\n Assigned bases of safety<\/p>\n On cardinal points of the compass<\/p>\n Circling the mountain of deliverance,<\/p>\n Fashioned a wandering moon<\/p>\n From a horse, a string and a gum tree,<\/p>\n Tempered weapons of ash,<\/p>\n ~ find the rest of this poem here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Assignment #1: Write a poem about Baseball and God,<\/i> by Philip E. Burnham, Jr. from Housekeeping: Poems Out of the Ordinary.<\/i><\/b> \u00a9 Ibbetson Street Press, 2005. Poetry Friday is at Beck’s Book Reviews<\/a>, so join the game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The other night, this was on the TV. After a “what the heck was THAT!?” moment, I realized this little piece of animated goodness…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,10],"class_list":["post-1885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-poetry-friday","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5068,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Assignment #1: Write a poem about Baseball and God<\/h2>\n