It’s Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day! As always, I had several poems in my pockets. I’ve been telling my students about this for weeks now. Yesterday, to make sure they were prepared for the day, I brought a bunch of poems to class so that students could choose one for their pockets.
And choose they did. I hadn’t expected them to be [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Unhand that poem!
Posted in NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, teaching, using our words, writing, tagged Hughes, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka, teaching, using our words, writing on 30 April 2009 | 8 Comments »
Tuckered (but not ‘tanka-ed’) Out
Posted in NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, writing, tagged NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka, writing on 29 April 2009 | 3 Comments »
All I seem able to do lately is say I’m exhausted and post a poem, say I’m exhausted and post a poem. Yeah, well …
so many missteps
so much I have forgotten
soft lips against skin
I find this path back to you
my touch reading you like Braille
It amazes me that today is April 29th and I have [...]
Mix and Match
Posted in NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, choose your own adventure, poetry, writing, tagged acrostic, choose your own adventure, NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka, writing on 28 April 2009 | 8 Comments »
This morning I was over at Two Writing Teachers and saw Ruth’s prompt for today’s poem: to write an acrostic. At first I thought I’d have to ignore the prompt because of my insane lack of flexibility dogged insistence on writing tanka every day. But then I realized that I could maybe do both. After all, there are plenty [...]
And when’s that vacation going to be?
Posted in NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, work, writing, tagged NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka, work, writing on 27 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
Mayor’s office meeting
State Ed, job training, budgets
a day of BUSY
welcome to the working week
time slipping through my fingers
Today was one of those days, the kind that just runs at a crazy breakneck pace from beginning to end. A crazy whirlwind. Not a bad day, just hard to keep hold of. And as the dust settles [...]
So soon …
Posted in NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, writing, tagged NaPoMo, NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka, writing on 26 April 2009 | 2 Comments »
our lives in school years
seem so long in September
but nine months (not twelve)
fly fast, leaving us in spring
too soon to say our goodbyes
I am thinking about the wonderful social work interns we’ve had with us this year. We only get to have them for the school year — for their school year, which is shorter than ours [...]
