Pause for some Poetry!

Over the past few months, I have been introduced to a number of texts that are designed to help teachers teach students how to access their inner poet. One of the most emphasized takeaways gathered from across the texts, regardless of whether it targets younger students, adolescents, or adult learners, is the value in sharing our writing. Writing can be one of the most vulnerable spaces that we have because it is a relationship built between the individual and the blank page. For me, writing is therapeutic and a journey of self-discovery; I write for myself. Sometimes it ends up being a love letter, sometimes it is a much needed pep talk, sometimes it is an apology and other times it is an account of undeserved forgiveness; more often than not, poetry gives a voice to the things that are beyond the language we have at our disposal. So, with that being said, I present to the world some of the pieces I have been working on recently, inspired by the invitations extended by poets and poems that also seek to understand the crazy world we live in.

XOXO,

Miss S

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a.m. duties

concrete poem (inspired by Thanku: Poems of Gratitude)

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wind song

inspired by similarly structured poems in Thanku: Poems of Gratitude

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writer's block

after Defining Words from Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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song of silence

soundscape poem inspired by Mentor Texts invitation(7.3)

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[untitled]

inspired by Georgia Heard

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Let me know what inspires you and PLEASE share some of your writing with me via the comments below or on social media (don't forget to tag @miss_s.ongey and use #writeon)!!