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SPRING BREAK starts today. Wheeeeeeeee!
Thank you to Irene Latham for hosting this week's round-up at her blog, Live Your Poem AND the amazing Progressive Poem this year. My day is coming up and I've tuned into my Classic Rock station to be ready for my line on 4/14.
#NationalPoetryMonth stresses me out a tiny bit. I'm excited as a reader and writer of poetry. I'm also a Poetry advocate and want spend my time getting poetry out to everyone. I find it hard to both as well as and as much as I would like. This month I've been sharing Poetry Pandemonium progress...but none of my own writing.
I've been playing with meta-poetry. Meta poems are poems in which the poem is about poetry.
Shhhhhhh
This poem doesn’t know
it’s being written.
This poem is fast asleep
chasing poem parts
round the garden
in a dream of hide and seek.
This poem might
run after rhyme
or rhythm for a beat,
words that can be dreamed up
when a poem is fast asleep.
when a poem is fast asleep.
Shhhh, dearest reader
poem parts still run around,
let's give this poem
some sleep time
so a more perfect poem
so a more perfect poem
can be found.
(c) Linda Mitchell
Today, students vote in our final Poetry Pandemonium Match up. The two semi-finalists that won all rounds are:
She Was Beautiful by F. Scott Fitzgerald (poem of repetition)
and,
I Ate a Spicy Pepper by Kenn Nesbitt (poem of hyperbole)I will post the winner on social media as soon as we know and here after school.
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| https://www.poetry4kids.com/?s=spicy+pepper |
Enjoy some pics below of my school's Student Literacy Council hanging poems up in the wilds of our hallways, windows, bathrooms for #NationalPoetryMonth in conjunction with Poetry Pandemonium. These were the "extra" poems not selected for Pandemonium brackets...but cheerfully used in this way.
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| Poem Placement: I wrote where to place poems on sticky notes. Students selected a poem & sticky then went out to hang it up. |
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| Restrooms are a good place for brain...er, poetry breaks |
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| One of my favorite kiddos (shh don't tell I have favorites) hangs, 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou |
This poem might
ReplyDeleterun after rhyme
or rhythm for a beat,
words that can be dreamed up
when a poem is fast asleep.
My favorite line of your lovely metapoem, Linda.
Your poetry projects may seem like pandemonium, but they are spreading a love for words that will last a lifetime. I love the revision on this poem. Even poems need their rest.
ReplyDeleteYou are a poetry champion, Linda! Love the poem in the bathroom. :) And your sleeping poem... LOVE! Thank you for sharing xo
ReplyDeleteI know you've been so busy with the Pandemonium, Linda, but it is a wonderful thing for your school to celebrate poetry in a big way! I do love this clever poem asleep: "words that can be dreamed up
ReplyDeletewhen a poem is fast asleep."
Your poem is so clever. I'll be careful not to wake it :). Fun seeing the pics of poems being posted around your school. Hooray!
ReplyDeleteI like your" hide and seek" poem Linda, hope many students find it! The Pandemonium project looks and sounds like a big success, have fun with it as it weaves it way through April!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your meta poem, especially
ReplyDeleteThis poem is fast asleep
chasing poem parts
round the garden
in a dream of hide and seek.
I have had that same experience with poems. I don't think I am quite as nice as you are with them.
I love all the poetry fun you are sharing from your sleeping poem chasing parts in dreams to the poetry pandemonium to the poems hanging throughout your school. Those are some lucky students to be surrounded by so much poetry. Enjoy spring break!
ReplyDeleteFun poem, Linda! The opening made me think of Alden Nowland's poem about poems "An Exchange of Gifts." It also made me think of my "While I'm Out." Enjoy your spring break!!
ReplyDeleteLove your perfect poem, Linda. Clever! (And still in love with your Poetry Pandemonium.) You are awesome!
ReplyDeleteLinda, you are having so much fun with your Poetry Pandemonium and I am sure the students are too. Poetry in the bathrooms-very cool idea for middle schoolers. I like that the children are placing poems throughout the building. There must be quite a poetry buzz going on. As for your poem-shh! I won't wake it. I just want to give a shoutout to its creator.
ReplyDeleteReally enjoyed the Kenn Nesbitt poem and your own meta poem, Shhhhhhh. Your students are lucky to have you! Have a relaxing spring break, Linda.
ReplyDeleteI've loved reading about Poetry Pandemonium, but it's good to have your poet-voice back! Happy Spring Break!
ReplyDeleteShhhhh! is great --a poem with the perfect title that invites the reader into a poetic conspiracy! What a delight! I love the changes you made. Have a wonderful break, Linda! Breathe, relax and enjoy :)
ReplyDeleteI love the poem poem! So creative. Reminds me of the metafiction picture books that being published lately. If it is not already published, it should be!
ReplyDeleteI'm a little jealous of your spring break - ours was so long ago I can hardly remember it. And your Poetry Pandemonium sounds amazing!
ReplyDeleteClever, Linda. I love the thought of a poem sleeping and its parts running all around.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of "meta poetry." And yours is really fun. I'm still trying to pull together a list of poems to do my own poetry pandemonium. Is there any chance you would consider sharing your list? I'd be glad to gather some of the ones I'm collecting as well.
ReplyDeleteSure thing. I shared the list last week--check out the graphic of the bracket: https://awordedgewiselindamitchell.blogspot.com/2019/04/poetry-pandemonium-ii-docs-share.html
DeleteCongratulations to Kenn! I'm not at all surprised he won— Pandemonium is his middle name, isn't it? ;) (Just ask the spicy pepper!)
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful to hear your voice shine through again in today's post, as well! Yours, less pandemonium, and more "want to see what's up my sleeve? This is our little secret!" Love it!
Happy Spring Break! I love your meta-poetry idea, and you have all those Poetry Pandemonium suggestions to inspire you now.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is so busy
cooling its mouth
with bread and milk
it doesn't notice
that it's winning the
spicy contest.