Poetry Friday round-up is with Carol at Beyond Literacy Link.
One of my favorite books in my rather large collection of poetry books is What the Heart Knows by Joyce Sidman. This week I shared the poem Happiness, a chant invoking happiness. We talked about writing from the perspective of direct address to an emotion. I directed my students to choose an emotion and to try using imagery to make the emotion personified. I played along with my kiddos and took out the magnetic poetry cookie sheets. Finding the word poems mused me to write a direct address to poems. Karson and I both used the imagery of a monarch butterfly drawing on our experience of hatching and releasing monarchs this week.
Poems,
You hide in shadows
of oak trees.
You whisper words
in the breeze.
You shudder my heart.Poems,
When we meet eye to eye,
I am amazed
by your strength,
unexpected yet welcome.Poems,
Your delicate wings
unfold before our eyes
surprising us
with your ease of flight.–Margaret Simon, draft, 2019
Free image from Pixabay.
Excitement,
too much thrill can bring confusion
and confusion leads to mystery.
You are like the breeze on the top of a mountain.
When I see the brightness of the moon, I feel you.
You are the feeling when a monarch flies into the distance.
Curiosity,
You are full of forest mazes
that my mind gets stuck in.
My eyes show the way.
You bring me thoughts,
you make me think,
Curiosity
Reflections on the Teche 