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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The sunshine finally came out for this sonshine! Nicholas Craig , we can’t wait to see what you cook up!!! We love you and we couldn’t be more proud of the work you’ve done!🎓👨‍🍳

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 13/06/2026

“Be consistent, but flexible. Love them unconditionally, but hold them accountable. Give them voice, but be the leader.” —Rae Rudzinski, Teacher

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I abandoned that book because I couldn’t fit it in my purse 😂

Monte Syrie @montesyrie.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

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30 years of learning to teach. 🙂 🙏 @edutopia.org

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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 14/05/2026

Happy birthday to George Lucas, Edutopia’s founder! 🎉

"When people tell you it's impossible, you're on the right track." –George Lucas

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yup. Imagine if lawyers complained about their clients online. Or doctors about their patients. Or hairdressers about their customers. Or waitstaff about diners. Or cleaning professionals about the slobs whose houses they cleaned. Can’t imagine it? Yup…

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

As Billy Collins says, "poetry is the history of the human heart." None of the poems I wrote early every morning this month is perfect. All are practice, which helps me find my voice every day. #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Day 30: Most poems I wrote this month were beside mentor poems but today's was inspired by an "outtake" photo on a weekend getaway. Remember when half the photos you took were outtakes you had to sift through? 📷 #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

April 30: At Ithaca Falls

A photo that wasn’t supposed to be taken, a snapshot off kilter demands self compassion, the crepey neck lines the broadness of a fac...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Day 29: Written beside “Bending Sound” by Paula Gordon Lepp, this poem is both process analysis & object lesson. Writing about the everyday beside #MentorTexts inspires poetry to emerge! #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

April 29: Father’s Day and Cheesecake

The cheesecake cooling overnight inside the powered down oven, belted in its springform pan, took time to make well. He had to pay att...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Day 28: Some days we use poems to sort things out in our own minds. This is an example of one of those poems and one of those days. Written beside “The Thanksgiving Cactus” by Nathan Spoon #PoetryasPractice #MentorTexts #NationalPoetryMonth #Mindfulness poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

April 28: House of the Living

Here in the kitchen, in a sea of haste, with a brood of boys, I’m happy to be giving, truly at my most happy not to think of me, whi...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Day 27: Written beside “This Year Peonies” by Marjorie Moorhead, today's poem alludes to lines from "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B. Yeats, which I memorized as a teen. #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #EcoPoetry #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Day 26: 5 days remain in #NationalPoetryMonth & what a month it's been! Today's poem was written beside “It Matters” by Laura Foley. The chapter "Poetry as Argument," in #PoetryPauses by @thevogelman.bsky.social inspired this one too! #PoetryasPractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

now more than ever amidst such turbulence, matters that we engage, talk about and around all we think we understand, though we unders...

April 26: It Matters

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Day 25: Written beside “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason, today's poem "Close to Never" fun and whimsical poem to write. One of the many things I love about poetry is its capacity to create #WritingJoy #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #MentorTexts poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Day 24: "Brownies" is the title of my poem today, which was written beside “Balance” by Dorianne Laux. I asked #GeminiAI to illustrate the poem and we agreed to disagree, so I cropped out the captions 🤣 #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Day 23: Only 1 week left in #NationalPoetryMonth & the time has flown! Written beside “Can You Hear It?” by Paula Lepp, this #ecopoem underscores #mindfulmoments found in simple daily tasks and within our imaginations! #PoetryasPractice #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Thanks, Tim! We create to learn 💜

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Day 22: Today's poem was written beside “Locust” by #JuliaAlvarez & a reminder: It's never too late to be patient w/ ourselves & try something again or for the 1st time ever! #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Poetry returned in menopause reunited white space expanse of words awaiting kinder reception of a brain besotted… I’d built success o...

April 22: Poems

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Day 21: Written beside “Heavenly Bodies” by Alison Luterman, today's poem was drafted in my notebook late last spring prior to my husband's and my 20th wedding anniversary. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

We’re falling asleep side by side. I can touch his lower back, silky and broad across ligaments, a back that bears weight most days...

April 21: Earthly Bodies

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Day 20: Also written beside “Ribollita” by D. Hilbert. One #mentortext & two totally different poems. Again, some #GeminiAI line art representations of my poems pique my interest. Others just make me laugh. #nuance #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Day 19: One of two poems I wrote beside “Ribollita” by Donna Hilbert. Reminds me that #MentorTexts function in a plethora of ways. This one helped me to zoom in, then out on a simple act. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

I praise the way you make the bed left to air too long, thwack of blanket hitting air— smack of pillows too deflated ever for show, bu...

April 19: Partner

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Day 18: Written beside “Lost and Found” by Laura Foley, this chronicles a middle school science field trip. Moving it from notebook to screen, I cut a lot to focus on the essence of the experience. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #ecopoetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Day 17: Today's poem reckons with the many sciences of reading. "Poetry as Argument" in @thevogelman.bsky.social #PoetryPauses inspires me to see arguments in poetry. This one uses Comparison/Contrast. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Day 15: This was written beside "Water" by Rudy Francisco. It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor's statement: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Day 14: Today's poem, written beside “Nothing Wants to Suffer” by Danusha Lameris, is a good reminder that #MentorTexts introduce us to new versions of our writing selves every time we utilize them! #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #Motherhood poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

April 14: Warrior Worrier

No mother wants a child to suffer no cut cleansed with peroxide no sizzling on blisters scraping shoe against growing heel No mother w...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Day 13: Something I've been tinkering with is using #GoogleGemini to create line art "reflecting" the poem. I'd never visualize this, but it does convey some of the original meaning... #PoetryasPractice #AIinEducation #Visualization #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Day 11: Today's poem was written beside Naomi Shihab Nye's "Red Brocade." It reminds me that sometimes it takes years to see the results of your parental efforts 🥰 #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #MentorTexts #NationalPoetryMonth #Poetry #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

My grandmother used to say Don't go empty-handed… I never heard her speak the words, words I've inherited from her daughter, my mother, ...

April 11: Hospitality

Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Day 9: This is a POV "talk back" poem written beside “Chore” by Angela Narciso Torres. According to Gemini, the theme is: "true spirituality cannot be manufactured." Yeah... but more than that 🤣 #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #NWP poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

April 9: A Note from the Lenten Laundry

You’ve turned me into a prayer, but I think it's cheating to shave off time in a cathedral for minutes washing. It's an act. Admit it. ...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Day 7: One of my notebook "seasons" this year was writing back to a poem's original speaker from another P-O-V. This poem is a "writeback" to Zoe Higgin's "Ode," where the speaker celebrates the undone. #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...

April 7: A Note from the Kitchen Drawer

Today is going to be the day you notice hardened crumbs nesting in vertices. Today you are going to take a damp cloth to these corners,...

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Day 6: Sometimes reading a poem leads to writing a poem not inspired by it but talking back to it. This happened when a sappy gratitude poem ticked me off 🤣 #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLifehttps://poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/april-6-breaking-night.html

Nothing takes away motherhood’s terrors. Every splinter in a tender barefoot toe, moan of dread, vomit peals breaking night, willing th...

April 6: Breaking Night

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

THREAD: It's April! Which means #NationalPoetryMonth. This year is less about volume & more about mining notebooks to write "micro" pieces. I’m prioritizing wellness and discovery over a polished product with short, sustainable daily poems. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife

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Oona Marie Abrams @oonziela.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Cake pans, board games, cameras, wedding gowns, and now… seeds! Picked up some packets today when I stopped in. Yet another reason why #librariesrock