Disconnected
Photo by Louise M.
Students - We all have things in our lives that trouble us, that we see as worries or dangers. For me, one of these things is the way that technology connects us...but sometimes seems to disconnect us even more. Today's poem explains the way I feel sometimes. Perhaps you have felt this way too. Life is full of ups and downs and beauties and concerns.
And we can write about any and all of them.
We can comment on the world through our poems. And when we're lucky, the poems we write will meet others at the right time for them. Most of the time, we will never even know when this happens. But we still write. I would love to read some statement poems by young writers, so if you're writing them, please feel free to share them with me through your teacher.
Writing can lift the world.
Speaking of goodness, over at my other blog, Sharing Our Notebooks, I am happy to welcome third grade teacher Dina Bolan and her third grade writers from Alexander Hamilton Elementary School in Glen Rock, New Jersey. Take a peek at their nonfiction notebook entries, and leave a comment to be entered into a drawing for a new notebook of your own!
Thank you to Librarian Jone McCullough for featuring my READ! READ! READ! with illustrator Ryan O'Rourke over at Check It Out today! There's a giveaway for the book, thanks to Boyds Mills Press, so if you leave a comment by next Thursday...you may win a copy.
Catherine is hosting today's Poetry Friday roundup by celebrating the wonderful new book CAN I TOUCH YOUR HAIR: POEMS OF RACE, MISTAKES, AND FRIENDSHIP by Irene Latham and Charles Waters over at Reading to the Core. Please visit!
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