Ayuh to Z Challenge - G

There's a squirrel distracting me this morning.  He's taking corn off the cob we threw out there a couple of days ago, and he's burying each kernel on our lawn or in the woods.  You know they never find them again, don't you?  I think we'll have a garden this year, thanks to Rocky.  Yesterday we watched a lone turkey out there, two days ago it was five deer.  The osprey returned on the 4th and 5th (one each day).  It must be spring! 

Slight revision - 13 turkeys keep appearing out of the woods to peck around on the lawn today, then disappear to reappear later like it's all brand new territory.  Maybe they are digging up the kernels of corn.
Wow!  And 7 deer with tails straight up, white torches, just now blazed through the woods in back of the house!  This is a great place to sit!  Oh, no!  All the big ones passed about three minutes ago, and now here comes a little one, a fawn, all by itself picking its way slowly through the woods.  At least it appears to be headed in the right direction.
There's not a G word in this...Goodness!  See below if you want to get inundated with the letter G.

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My theme: Book Titles A to Z written by Maine authors,
and a poem for that title each day for the month of April.  The poem is not about the book, but is written with the title as inspiration!
Today there were four good titles, so I've used all four in one poem!

Welcome to G!

G is for 

Grandma’s Secret Letter
by Maggie Davis

A Garden of Whales
by Maggie Davis

A Gift from the Sea
by Kate Banks

Gossamer

by Lois Lowry

I am not sure of the title to this.  I think it's the first - "Grandma's Secret Letter".  I've used all four titles in this poem.

Grandma’s Secret Letter ♥ A Garden of Whales ♥ A Gift from the Sea
♥
Gossamer

the day my ocean grandma died

mom handed me a brown package tied

with gossamer ribbons

“grandma said it was

her secret letter for you,

valerie”

mom put the package

in my hands

i gently untied its featherlight bands

and unwrapped the brown paper

there inside

rested

in the paper

nested

a little gold heart with a V

and a book

my small hands shook

as I read the title

“a gift from the sea”

with shells all named

and fish of all sorts

swimming across the page

and a handwritten note

above the fish

on a boat

in its sails

it said “look for

a garden of whales”

turning more

i saw whales galore

whales and more whales

swimming together

not whales of a feather

but a big ocean garden

of none of the same

red letters hand-traced

in each name

BOWHEAD - PILOT - BELUGA

HUMPBACK - GREY - MINKE - ORCA

“granddaughter, please,

unscramble these”

said a note written on

the sea

“use this for a V”

mom whispered to me

as she pointed to

the gold heart.

OILUYEO♥

i wrote them down

and messed them around

until grandma’s secret

letter revealed

I LO♥E YOU!

“fore♥er and e♥er

Grandma ~

i will lo♥e you,
too!”

©Donna JT Smith, 2014

Grandma's Secret Letter by Maggie Davis
A child's secret letter from Grandma tells her get to her grandmother's house, and tells her of the elves, ghosts, witches, and dragons she will meet along the way.
Maggie Davis lives in East Blue Hill, writing and publishing books for children and adults.

A Garden of Whales by Maggie Davis
A young boy is concerned with how the whales are disappearing from the earth.  He  imagines how the whales could be saved.
Maggie Davis lives in East Blue Hill with her husband. She founded her own publishing company, Heartsong Books, in 1993. She's published books for children and adults.
A Garden of Whales

A Gift from the Sea by Kate Banks (Banks, Katherine)
A boy finds a rock on the beach. As he looks at it in his hand, he doesn't realize the story of that rock and how it as come to be where it is.  But he does know that it is a gift from the sea. 
Katherine Anne (Kate) Banks was born and grew up in Maine, and now lives in France. She has written many books for children and young adults.
A Gift from the Sea

Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Gossamer is about dream makers who gather memories from the things in our home, and then give them to us in our dreams. But it is also about how the boy in the story, in foster care, is dealing with the affects of an alcoholic, abusive father.  So that puts it in the upper ages for kid's books, probably middle school.
Lois Lowry's family was in the military and she became a military wife, so she has lived in different places all over the world. She lives in Cambridge, MA and in Maine. She attended Brown University and received her degree from the University of Southern Maine.

This post was brought to you by the letter G!

G-r-r-r-eat!

See you tomorrow H!