Last week I shared my found poem about what teachers didn’t like about poetry. Some commenters agreed with the sentiments expressed, others found them sad. So, as promised, here’s the opposite poem – a found poem from the positives. I asked workshop participants to write either their favourite line of poetry or something they loved about poetry. At home, I played with the sticky notes till I had some sort of structure, and this is a result.
Poetry Rules!
With rhythm
With rhyming
And sometimes
Great timing
Expressing yourself:
Poetry lets me dream and hope
drifting through my soul
Lowering my blood pressure
Like stroking a cat
Anything quite like poetry
It’s personal
And brings out students’ emotions
Surprising teachers
surprising even themselves.
Poetry speaks from the heart
Both dark side and light
Endless inferred meanings
With rhyme and rhythm
The joy and pleasure it brings
Usually short
But deep
And dost like poetry
Where things
Have space to make sense.
Poetry can stay.
Where I was able to trace the lines from poems, I have made them into a hyperlink so you can go and read those original poems. Thanks to the participants at the ALEA/ACMI State Conference for their contributions and their willingness to be open to poetic possibilities.
Today’s Poetry Friday roundup will be hosted by Reading to the Core. Head over there to see all the other poetry posts across the blogosphere.
