{"id":1023,"date":"2023-01-13T14:56:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ouramazingpoems\/?page_id=1023"},"modified":"2023-01-13T15:05:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:05:56","slug":"grasshoppers-and-kittens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/pk\/ouramazingpoems\/grasshoppers-and-kittens\/","title":{"rendered":"Grasshoppers and Kittens"},"content":{"rendered":"

These poems are written after Mary Oliver’s<\/a>, A Summer’s Day<\/a>.
\nIn her poem Oliver asks big questions of the world and all the wild souls that inhabit it. She describes a Grasshopper as if in slow motion.<\/p>\n

We have chosen an animal we know well and tried to do the same, asking big questions and describing small details.<\/p>\n

Jemima, aged 12, has also done this with her poem, Kitten<\/a>. You can hear influences of Mary Oliver and Jemima in our work below. Thank you to both poets.<\/p>\n