Poetry lets you express yourself through the words. It can be rapping or telling a short story.
Writing a poem can help us to express the feelings that we feel in our hearts.
Poetry can be written in many different ways. Not all poems have to rhyme.
Poetry tells a story in a different way.
Poetry is good to express your feelings to someone you love, hate and all what you can feel for someone.
Poetry is good to write about what you see, on the street and the world, to express what you see.
You are like a whole new person when you write poems because new things come in your mind.
Poetry gives us freedom of mind. Poetry is a stress reliever and makes you calm.
Poetry is important because you express yourself and let your imagination run wild through writing. If you are happy or angry about something you can let it all out in a poem.
Poetry makes you talk about life and what’s going on around you. You can make a poem out of anything whether it’s your life, the weather or the months.
Writing is important for so many simple reasons. It’s how we express ourselves.
Writing is an art and through it channels many interpretations and visions for others to see and hear.
We communicate through writing such as simple short stories or a text message to a friend.
Writing is a lifestyle, a way of life.
Writing is everywhere in the world. It can help people understand each other.
Writing is the most important subject people can learn. The more you write, the better you can be. It has helped me in the past to deal with certain situations.
In this world we live in, you must know how to write.
Without words we would be silent.
Writing is important because it helps us to learn, remember and invent. Writing teaches us to read and helps us to learn because it is visual. We remember things better when they are written.
In this world we live in, you must know how to write.
Without words we would be silent.
The following three poem drafts were inspired by words from several articles we read in class. Each poem was a collaboration and were chosen by the Literacy Arts classes to be published in the next volume of Scribbled Blue Dreams.
The Novice
by Karina B., Joseph M. and Nyador R.
Her eyes are glistening
as she tumbles down the stairs
her normality perishes
I try to woo her
she’s dissociating herself
her soul flowing away from her body
as if the devil is kidnapping her soul
she’s very terrified
I try to find courage in myself
but I’m a novice
Glistening Day
by Caleb N., Dee T. and Dee Dee M.
On a glistening day a car bombing brings
desolation. The streets are flowing with blood from
the victims. People are suffocating from not only dust and
smoke, but from fear. The tragedy brings an already decrepit
area into a terrified war zone. These regular acts of
evil prove to be a diversion for peace. This broken
society is far from being mended. Evil has become
the normalcy in the region where the loss of courage
has become an epidemic.
No Where to Run
by Breanna K., Joanne R., Johna B. and Jenna H.
The glistening stars above
are so beautiful It takes
your breath away, like a
pillow suffocating you. It’s
like you’re terrified of the
flowing sparkling water. There
was a car bombing and you
started to run. run to where
who knows, then you
stopped because of a diversion
There's a sparkle
coming out of the ground
so you can gain some courage
to walk over, you give yourself
permission to interact with
the sparkle. Then you fall into
the sparkle into desolation. Everything
that sparkles isn't gold
Super.Hero is our first choral poem with contributions from all of the students in Literacy Arts. We thought about important people in our lives and then imagined we were superheroes who could do anything we wanted take care of our loved ones.
Super.hero
I learned that there is more to tape. A.D.
I learned that in poetry you can never be satisfied with a first draft. You have to put as much time and effort into it as possible. I’ll remember that every time I write a poem. J.P.
Poems don’t have to rhyme-it just has to come from your heart. T.M.
My favorite thing about the residency was the idea of expressing one’s self through poetry and hearing the different voices in each poem. You can make anything out of something. A.R.
I couldn’t cut the tape at first but then when I learned the skill, I couldn’t stop cutting tape. M.Y.
I learned that art/reading is not what others think but what you feel. P.L.
I really enjoyed doing things I had never done before. I learned a part of myself that is poetry because I realized I’m a good writer. I remember when I mixed my poem with the other student, we put it together and we shared our thoughts to make one beautiful poem. I’ll use this residency outside of the school. I’ll buy tapes of many colors and I’ll decorate my t-shirts. I learned how to be creative doing just simple things. O.Z.
