Wherever You Are & Spark 18!

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Students - Today's poem was my inspiration piece for Amy Souza as part of our collaboration for Spark 18.  I sent her the poem, and then she had 10 days to respond artistically to the words.  Look below!

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acrylic, pen, and collage on board and paper, played around with digitally

by Amy Souza

Isn't this a cool painting? I like to think that the poem holds a kernel of forgiveness, and the joyful colors in Amy's painting offer this same feeling.

Today's poem is written in quatrains, meaning there are four lines in each stanza.  Often I will write a poem in one big block, and only afterward realize that it should be broken up into quatrains.  You can do that in your writing too. Just get the words down, and then afterward...fly above the poem and see what shape it wishes to be!

Here is our Georgia, a long time ago, feeding one of abandoned kittens we found along our road.  Yes, this really did happen to us and so today's poem really is to a stranger who abandoned kittens... 

Georgia Feeding Kittens Many Years Ago

by Amy LV

You can see the inspiration artwork that Amy sent to me and read my poem response in Friday's post. 

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Poem #21 & TV Turnoff #3 - A Roll of Foil

For all time and in all corners of our world, children have played with small bits of things, making their own toys from very simple materials.  Even though we have gadgets and gizmos galore in our modern world and wealthy country, we can still do this:

 

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This picture book about a young boy in an African village who builds his own toy vehicle out of wire scraps is a good story to recapture a sense of building something out of what may appear to be nothing.

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If you are interested in allowing children to live out their complete childhoods, you may wish to read this article by Lenore Skenazy at the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. 

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