Last week the Sunday Night Swaggers posted Nestling poems, like Irene Latham in This Poem is a Nest. I couldn’t stop there. I had to share the concept with my student writers. I had planned to teach the inaugural poem by Richard Blanco, One Today. I have the picture book, and it’s just an amazing poem all the way around. It’s especially full of nestlings for writers to find.
I filled two notebook pages with them. I copied a few into a Canva design. (My student helped with titles.)
Kaia and I wrote this one together, each choosing lines back and forth.
millions of faces
arrayed
all of us
we keep dreaming
many prayers
buon giorno
every language spoken
into one sky
by Kaia and Mrs. Simon
trains whistle
like a silent
drum tapping
on every rooftop
a birthday tune
by Chloe (She asks you to guess the title)
For the Winter Poem Swap, I received a gift poem all the way from Australia, along with the cutest little carrying bags with an original print of an echidna. Kat Apel and I muse about how similar and how different our landscape is. We often post similar pictures on Instagram of canoeing and walking about. Her poem is a delightful back and forth about our similar, yet different homes.
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Reflections on the Teche 