The "Try It Out" for this week's poetry workshop was writing "How To Be" Poems. We shared a few and then tried out a group poem: "How To Be the First Snowflake" (appropriate for the day, we thought). This inspired many interesting, thoughtful and creative poems. Please see just a sample below.
How To Be Anything
Be
Live
Think
Hope
Dream
Thing Big
Reach for the Sky
Love What You Do
And make sure to
Believe
How To Be the First Snowflake
Descend on the first of December
Be in the clouds ready to drop
Get an early start and fall
Dive down and feel like a plane
Gliding through the air,
Crystal clear
How To Be a Light Bulb
Soak up electricity
Be bright
Be smart
Sometimes burn out
Symbolize ideas
Turn on and off
Flicker and spark and
Shine your soul
How To Be a Light Bulb
Soak up electricity
Get hotter and hotter
Start glowing
Reply to the call of the switch
Give lots of light
Symbolize ideas
Freak people out by flickering
Repel the monsters under the bed
End your life with a final flicker
How To Be a Doodler
Imagine your creatures
Use your surroundings
Give it your best try
Use your best skill to create it
Have fun with it
Take your time
Keep doing it
Draw what you can
Take it from someone who knows
Don’t care what other people think
It’s the best by how much love you put into it.
Hello, how wonderful to see an excerpt from Mattie's "For Our World" poem on your page here! One of the biggest goals of the Mattie J.T. Stepanek Foundation is to support educators and others in learning about, understanding, and 'being' a message of hope and peace to others. So good to see that you are sharing this with your students. Peace to you,
ReplyDeleteJeni Stepanek, Ph.D. ("Mattie's mom").
www.mattieonline.com