Poetry Friday: Mosaic
It's Poetry Friday so click over to Katya Czaja's blog for lots of poetry links. I'm joining today with an original poem about the cherry tree.
After 30 days of poetry about objects, I was excited to realize that today I could let my poem find me once again. There's a little freedom in just waiting on a poem to tap you on the shoulder. Of course, my first graders really directed me to today's poem. We were talking about drawing into poetry so I shared a few links from Amy Ludwig VanDerwater's 2013 poem project. I showed them the way she drew about her idea and then added words all around it. We decided we'd try it together with a tree outside our window. As we collected words and phrases, I started to notice a play with words beginning with "bl" such as blooming, blow, blossoms. They really wanted me to try to turn this into a poem for them….so here it goes.
Mosaic
beautiful blossoms
bloom,
painting the landscape
dots of
fuchsia,
pink,
ivory.
blushing upon arrival
then turning pale.
finally drifting,
floating,
blowing
in the breeze.
blanketing
the world
in color.
© Cathy L. Mere 2014
beautiful blossoms
bloom,
painting the landscape
dots of
fuchsia,
pink,
ivory.
blushing upon arrival
then turning pale.
finally drifting,
floating,
blowing
in the breeze.
blanketing
the world
in color.
© Cathy L. Mere 2014
Very nice... I love the kids in your class and their imaginations..
ReplyDeleteMissed this yesterday, Cathy. Love all the b words, "blushing upon arrival" is great, just what they do! Fun to hear what you did with your class!
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous poem. You're instilling word sensitivity into your students that will stay with them a lifetime.
ReplyDeleteA lovely poem, Cathy! I love the image of the petals "blanketing the world with color."
ReplyDeleteGood job, little poem! You found the right poet to make you! I like how she BLends "bloom, blush, blow, blanket" through the poem!
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