This episode of Saba Reads is quite different from the previous ones.

This is a reading of Sitting QiGong Meditation from Bill Douglas's book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tai Chi and QiGong.

I used this as an exercise in my QiGong for Emotional Balance workshop.

Find a place where you won't be interrupted for about 20 minutes, sit back, relax, breath, and enjoy being with yourself.

1. Third Snowfall, Marilyn Hacker

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=34093

2. The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day,  Lydia Maria Child  

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43942/the-new-england-boys-song-about-thanksgiving-day

also known as

Thanksgiving Day [“Over the river and through the wood”] 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42918/thanksgiving-day

3. A Country Boy in Winter, Sarah Orne Jewett 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47688/a-country-boy-in-winter

4. Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening, Dorothy Wordsworth 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51922/address-to-a-child-during-a-boisterous-winter-evening

5. A Visit from St. Nicholas, Clement Clarke Moore 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas

Longfellow: 1. Daylight And Moonlight americanliterature.com/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/poem/daylight-and-moonlight 2. A Day Of Sunshine americanliterature.com/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/poem/a-day-of-sunshine Thoreau 3. The Inward Morning americanliterature.com/author/henry-david-thoreau/poem/the-inward-morning Hemingway 4. Oily Weather americanliterature.com/author/ernest-hemingway/poem/oily-weather 5. Along with Youth americanliterature.com/author/ernest-hemingway/poem/along-with-youth

Five more poems from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories 1. How the Camel Got His Hump 2. 
How the Whale Got His Throat 3. The Elephant's Child 4. The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo 5. The Crab That Played with the Sea

Five poems from Kipling's "Just So" stories: 1. How the Leopard Got His Spots 2. The Beginning of the Armadilloes 3. The Cat That Walked by Himself 4. How the Rhinoceros got His Skin 5. The Butterfly That Stamped If you want to read along, you'll find the poems at https://americanliterature.com/author/rudyard-kipling/poem/just-so-stories-poems

1. Goblin Feet by J.R.R. Tolkien https://americanliterature.com/author/jrr-tolkien/poem/goblin-feet 2. Ebb Tide by Sara Teasdale https://americanliterature.com/author/sara-teasdale/poem/ebb-tide 3.There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale https://americanliterature.com/author/sara-teasdale/poem/there-will-come-soft-rains I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud by William Wordsworth https://americanliterature.com/author/william-wordsworth/poem/i-wandered-lonely-as-a-cloud

1. Little Orphant Annie, by James Whitcomb Riley https://americanliterature.com/author/james-whitcomb-riley/poem/little-orphant-annie 2. Five Little Speckled Frogs, by Anonymous https://americanliterature.com/author/anonymous/nursery-rhyme/five-little-speckled-frogs 3. The Railway Train, by Emily Dickinson https://americanliterature.com/author/emily-dickinson/poem/the-railway-train 4. Monosyllabics, by Laura E. Richards https://americanliterature.com/author/laura-e-richards/poem/monosyllabics

Such excitement! I'm not sure I can contain myself! Adventure! Danger! The eternal theme of good versus evil! If you want to read along, here's the link: https://americanliterature.com/childrens-stories/jack-and-the-beanstalk

Two poems from "The Real Mother Goose" * London Bridge * When Three poems from "Favorite Poems Old and New" * Apple Song * Milking Time * A Man With a Little Pleated Piano

The tale (no pun intended) of The Wonky Donkey, words and music by Craig Smith, illustrations by Katz Cowley, Scholastic Books, 2009. You can hear the musical version at www.scholastic.com/wonkydonkey .

* The Letter A * Little Boy Blue * My Doggy Ate My Essay * Recess, Oh, Recess! * Our Grandma Kissed a Pumpkin And the amazing "Q Theme" by the exceptionally talented Canadian guitarist/composer, Luke Doucet.

Roald Dahl: * The Dentist and the Crocodile (from Rhyme Stew, published by Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 1989) * The Tummy Beast (from Dirty Beasts, published by Penguin Random House LLC.  Copyright © 1983) * The Pig (from Dirty Beasts, published by Penguin Random House LLC.  Copyright © 1983) Darren Sardelli: * The Silliest Teacher in School (from Galaxy Pizza and Meteor Pie. Copyright © 2009 by Laugh-A-Lot Books.)

* My Shadow * There Was an Old Man of the Cape * Rain * Come Here is Adieu to the City * I Love to be Warm by the Red Fireside * My Kingdom

* The Swing * A Good Boy * Summer Sun * From a Railway Carriage * Picture-Books in Winter

* Jabberwocky * Humpty Dumpty's Song * He Thought He Saw An Elephant * Little Birds

* Brother And Sister * Beautiful Soup * A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life is But a Dream) * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat!

Messy Room Picture Puzzle Piece The Little Boy and the Old Man The Toucan

One Inch Tall Where the Sidewalk Ends Danny O’Dare It's Dark in Here

I cannot go to school today! Bear In There Boa Constrictor * Rain * Here is a link to hear Peter, Paul, and Mary singing the Boa Constrictor song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa48bc0P0XI

This week's poems: 1. The Mirror 2. Buckingham Palace 3. Teddy Bear