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This Photo Wants to be a Poem: Dancer

Posted in Photography, Poetry, This Photo Wants to be a Poem, Writing, tagged , , , , on April 19, 2023| 28 Comments »

My classroom neighbor is connected with a door between our rooms. Often she or I will knock and visit. One of those visits I talked about my weekly blog post of a photo, and she showed me photographs from her dance troupe. I was moved by the seeming still life of a dancer in flight. Kim got permission from both the photographer, Jon Rabalais, and the dancer, Lacey LeBlanc, for me to post this photo as a poem prompt. I hope you are inspired as I was to write about this amazing photo. Thanks to Jon and Lacey for sharing it with us.

My poem is a bit of word play, changing nouns to verbs. I enjoyed creating my poem. Please leave a small poem in the comments and encourage other writers with your comments. Honor the artistry of dance and photography with words.

Photo by Jon Rabalais. Dancer is Lacey LeBlanc.

I bird-dance
fling-flash
my winged hands
I leg-lift
flamingo-stance
prance
I body-rise

Margaret Simon, draft

The Kidlit Progressive Poem is gaining suspense in the garden. Check out today’s line at Carol’s blog: https://theapplesinmyorchard.com/

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Playing with Words

Posted in clmooc, Poetry Friday, Writing, tagged , , on July 10, 2015| 12 Comments »

Poetry Friday round up is at The Logonauts.

Poetry Friday round up is at The Logonauts.

 

Have you ever played Apples to Apples?  It’s a game my gifted students enjoy, especially the highly verbal ones.  There are two sets of cards, green and red.  The green cards are adjectives.  The red ones, nouns.  The players each hold 5 red cards.  The judge for the round (rotates from player to player) places a green card in the middle.  Everyone plays a red card.  The judge chooses the best noun that fits with the adjective.  Simple, right?

I like simple.  I have been reading posts by the intelligent group of teachers participating in the CLMOOC, a collaborative learning community sponsored by the National Writing Project.  I have associated with NWP for 20 years now, and I am constantly challenged to think beyond the borders.  But with this make cycle, game design, much of the process and thinking has traveled well above my head.  I’m hanging in, though.  I decided to take what I know and just remake it to something I love.

I know Apples to Apples and I love poetry.  There you go…a new game.  I chose 3 sets of cards to play around with myself and then took pictures of 3 more sets for others to play with.  I have added a few sets and invite you to play a little bit today.  Follow the link to Google slides.  Have fun!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MkeeS6tn1XSnBGSrWB8MHZzWmw0a4NllG74aOb1ayiw/edit?usp=sharing

Slide1

 

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