Poetry Friday: Lost
It's Poetry Friday. Today's event is hosted by Mary Lee Hahn at A Year of Reading . Stop by today's round up for more poetry . In a week I begin a new journey as I move from my first grade classroom to a reading intervention position in our building. It's the first time I've been without a classroom to arrange, a class list to call my own, or a classroom community to begin to build. It's a little unsettling. I'm excited about this new opportunity and am beginning to rethink my community --- it's just larger. Find my class list --- it's the classes I will be working with in the upcoming year. I stumbled upon this poem this evening that seemed fitting as I find my way in this new place. Lost by David Wagoner from Collected Poems 1956-1976 © Indiana University Press. Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a power...