Join the Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life Challenge.
Rather convenient that the last day of the Slice of Life Challenge month fell on a Monday, so the regular Tuesday Slice of Life followed. No rest for the weary. Let’s just keep up the momentum. Why stop now?
That’s what I said to my students as they wrote their final slices. Let’s keep this going. So my plans for the month of April is to challenge my students to write a poem a day. Now April is a busy month. Next week we have state testing all week. The last week of April is our Easter/Spring break. I hope you will visit occasionally on our kidblog to read their poems and comment.
National Poetry Month 2014 is exciting and busy! I will try to post a poem a day using different forms. I have a few guest posts coming up; one for Caroline Starr Rose about writing poems using anaphora, and another one about source poems for Laura Shovan. I will link up on the days that these are posted. I am also participating in Irene Latham’s Progressive Poem (links on the sidebar.)
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Let’s begin with a poem about poetry. This poem was prompted by a quote from Amy Vanderwater in an interview posted on Jone MacCullough’s site: Check it out.
“usually I just let a poem find the voice it wants to find.”
Let a poem find the voice it wants to find.
Real things can happen there,
even imaginary ones.
Dreams…yes,
dreams, too.Poems hide in unexpected places,
their voices buried in the sand.
Grab your shovel.
Let’s dig them out.Take me with you on the walk with your new poem.
Let’s build a castle together.
Whisper softly the sound of the ocean waves.I’ll know when I hear your special voice.
Words will find me watching.
Words will find the hearts they need to find.–Margaret Simon, all rights reserved.
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