POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY!

HAPPY POEM IN YOUR POCKET DAY!!!

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One of the beautiful aspects of my school is the work that our amazing poetry teacher puts into "Poem in Your Pocket Day". I look forward to this every year because kids walk around the school with baskets handing out poems, post them all over, and go into classrooms to read and run poetry activities. So, in homage, here is the six-word self-poem I wrote for one of the activities:

Mercury and moon danced feverishly infinitely

And another I wrote inspired by my students and the event:

"We Become"

Those who can't

Don't

Those who teach

Learn

Open up their hearts

And let the voices of the youth

Permeate 

Grow

Become

That is what I do

Observe

Listen

Lead

The beaten path

Made fresh again

For tomorrow to

Beat

Again

And beat again

My heart

it led me here

to witness

and 

become

Through you 

I grow

so full i sometimes have to

close my eyes

and

listen

Those who can teach

Can

Those who can give

Give

And the future

we will get

I watch you shine

And I become 

you become

And I shine

Beat

Beat

Beat your drum

My soul will hear it

I listen

and

we become.

I am not much of a poem writer so I love doses of inspiration that drive me to express!! There is so much I could add here because I have so many favorites by others, but I would rather read your poems!! Please  share!