September 23, 2016 by margaretsmn
Poetry Friday is with Catherine at Reading to the Core.
I am a big fan of poet Laura Purdie Salas. Every Thursday she posts an image and invites her readers to write a poem in 15 words or less. I love this challenge. Her post yesterday reminded me of sparklers. I left the computer, made coffee, and these words came into my head. Then last night’s Good2Great chat (#G2Great) was about Dreaming Big. This is what my Big Dream is all about: lighting that fire of passion in my students.
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Our address on the Bayou Teche
1 Donna Smith at Mainly Write
2 Irene Latham at Live Your Poem
3 Jone MacCulloch, deowriter
4 Liz Steinglass
5 Buffy Silverman
6 Kay McGriff at https://kaymcgriff.edublogs.org/
7 Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
8 Tara Smith at Going to Walden
9 Carol Varsalona at Beyond Literacy Link
10 Matt Forrest Esenwine at Radio, Rhythm, and Rhyme
11 Janet Fagel, hosted at Reflections on the Teche
12 Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
13 Kat Apel at Kat Whiskers
14 Margaret at Reflections on the Teche
15 Leigh Anne Eck at A Day in the Life
16 Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
17 Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
18 Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading
19 Tabatha at Opposite of Indifference
20 Rose Cappelli at Imagine the Possibilities
21 Janice Scully at Salt City Verse
22 Julieanne Harmatz at To Read, To Write, To Be
23 Ruth, thereisnosuchthingasagodforsakentown.blogspot.com
24 Christie Wyman at Wondering and Wandering
25 Amy at The Poem Farm
26 Dani Burtsfield at Doing the Work That Matters
27 Robyn Hood Black at Life on the Deckle Edge
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29 Fran Haley at lit bits and pieces
30 Michelle Kogan 
Gorgeous, and like so many, poems show what’s truth.
YES! What a wonderful reminder for us educators to always seek to light that sparkler, and to nurture it and keep it burning brightly.
Absolutely! What a great challenge you shared as well. Have a spectacular weekend, Margaret!
Yes! And you are always at the ready with a flame. Brilliant. 🙂
Margaret, this is so inspiring and so YOU! When teachers feel that way about their students, when people feel that way about children in general, a child in such a person’s sphere can’t help but sparkle.
I love this, Margaret! It’s such a joy to see that inner sparkler begin to glimmer. I’m going to print it and post it by my desk!
I love this! First, I didn’t know about the Thursday challenge. I tell you what…..EVERY Poetry Friday I learn something wonderful and new from friends. And, the idea of sparklers to be lit. Yes, that’s it….that’s it exactly. I may need to make a poster of this for my office door. Thank you Margaret for the spark that you are to your students — me included.
Fabulous. I love that it sparks more than a fire does. A sparkler is perfect.
Love it. Adults, do, too! 🙂
I’m so glad you shared this, Margaret. It’s rather devastating in its clarity and urgency! Plus it’s beautiful. And thanks for the 15WOL shoutout:>)
Beautiful image, Margaret – I immediately thought of my 24-year-old-teacher-daughter, starting her third year as a third-grade teacher. It’s been amazing to “see” her finding that hidden sparkler in her kids. Happy Fall!
Aw, that’s great, Margaret! What a beautiful thing to see.