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The theme for today’s Spiritual Thursday round-up is love. At first I thought, “This is easy.” However, the more I thought about it, writing about love is hard. What do I have to say that is new and refreshing or inspiring? When I have a difficult writing assignment, I often turn to form. Today I turn to Kwame Alexander and his amazing 2015 Newbery Award book in verse, The Crossover. In The Crossover, the character writes definitions in a particular form. My blogging friends, Michelle and Holly, each used the form (vocabulary poems) this month. I haven’t tried it with my students yet, but I usually like to practice before presenting them with an idea. Here’s my definition of love.
love
/ləv/
a person or thing that one loves.
as in: the curl of an infant’s
new fingers around your thumb.as in: looking through the open window
of our arms as we dance
the Lover’s Waltz.as in: let the soft body
of your heart love
what it loves.*as in: He gave his only
begotten son so that
you and I have eternal life.
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* variation of a line from Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese, my all time favorite poem.
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