Walking down Main Street you may find a poem in a window.
Or you can stop in at A&E Gallery and see that poets have been there.
Space Man and Space Dog
walk the moon alone,
with only each other
to keep company
on the long way home
–Vannisa
Paul Schexnayder has started a series of Circus Gators in his paintings. This makes for a crazy circus poem.
Cirque du Gator
a green gator circus,
a scaly trapeze,
two mingy gymnasts,
and a sharp-toothed dancer.
–Emily
$100 is the price
for a patriotic watermelon sunrise.
A alligator
stealing a watermelon from a chubaka?
Greedy green gator
masking the red white and blue.
–Kaiden
Beauty marks the spot.
An angel from high above is calling.
I won’t let go of your baby boy,
I promise.
–Kielan
I joined in the secret poem walk and wrote to the work in progress.
An empty frame
waits
layers
of color
build
a world,
a circus
of imagination.
–Margaret Simon
A field trip down Main Street can be a poetic treat.
These are so beautiful. You’ve inspired me to think about doing a gallery of poetry. PS I’m doing a poetry challenge with my whole grades 3-5 school. Anyone who wants to join can come for writing workshop once a week. http://petsaddlife.org/childrens-poetry-contest
Thanks for this link to a poetry contest. My kids would love this. Many of them are doing their “passion projects” on animals.
Margaret, what a splendid idea to share the students’ poetry with the community and this validates the childrens’ voices as young poets. Enjoy the spirit of the holidays.
“the secret poem walk”
Ah, magic lives everywhere…you have uncovered it!
Thank you!
xo
Oh, my. Scaly trapeze and greedy gators and the great heart of your poets–just wonderful. Thank you for sharing!
Love these art-inspired poems! Thanks so much for sharing, Margaret!
These are some talented kids you’re writing with, Margaret (I’ll bet your students would love to hear Carole King singing Chicken Soup with Rice, which you’ve got me singing now!)
Margaret, these are fabulous responses written for the art. I love the Sendak too. Lovely that the students got to do this.
Circus gators making me smile and Keilan’s poem giving me a lump in the throat…. magic and wonder, indeed! Thank you for sharing, Margaret. xo
Oh, circus gators alone would be enough to send me flying down to Main Street! It looks like the young poets enjoyed their flight, too.
This is so cool! There’s certainly no stopping you and your class, Margaret. Then again, who would want to?
Love the walk with you and your kids!
Children
jump
from
picture
to
picture
to
find
their verse.
You captured it just right. You can imagine them bouncing from art to art finding the one they could hear speaking to them. I was in the gallery this morning and saw the signs again and my hear was full.
Now THAT’s a literary walk they will never forget!
We don’t have close access to a business area, but perhaps a poem walk around the school, leaving poetic responses to hallway displays???