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Georgia Heard’s Poetry WorkshopWhere Do I Find Poetry?--Georgia HeardI open my eyes and what do I see?Poetry spinning all around me!In small ants trailing over the ground,bulldozing dry earth into cave and mound.In a hundred grains of ocean sand,that I cradle in the palm of my hand.In a lullaby of April rain,tapping softly on my windowpane.In trees dancing on a windy day,when sky is wrinkled and elephant gray.Poetry, poetry! Can be foundin, out, and all around.But take a look inside your heart.That’s where a poem truly likes to start.Heard_georgia@twitter: georgiaheard1Things by Eloise GreenfieldWent to the cornerWalked in the storeBought me some candyAin’t got it no more. Ain’t got it no more.Went to the beachPlayed on the shoreMade me a sand houseAin’t got it no more. Ain’t got it no more.Went to the kitchenLay down on the floorMade me a poemStill got it. Still got it.We Are Treesour rootsconnectwith the rootsof other treesour branchesgrow wantingto reach outto other branchesFrancisco X. AlarconValentine for Ernest MannNaomi Shihab NyeYou can’t order a poem like you order a taco.Walk up to the counter, say, “I’ll take two”and expect it to be handed back to youon a shiny plate.Still, I like your spirit.Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.So I’ll tell you a secret instead:poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes,they are sleeping. They are the shadowsdrifting across our ceilings the momentbefore we wake up. What we have to dois live in a way that lets us find them.Once I knew a man who gave his wifetwo skunks for a valentine.He couldn’t understand why she was crying.“I thought they had such beautiful eyes.”And he was serious. He was a serious manwho lived in a serious way. Nothing was uglyjust because the world said so. He really liked those skunks. So, he re-invented them as valentines and they became beautiful.At least, to him. And the poems that had been hidingin the eyes of skunks for centuriescrawled out and curled up at his feet.Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems. Check your garage, the odd sock in your drawer, the person you almost like, but not quiteand let me know.From poetry we learn the language of heart and soul, with particular attention paid to rhythm and sound, compression and precision, the power of images, and the appropriate use of figures of speech. And yet it is also the genre that is most playful in its attention to language, where rhyme, pun, and hidden meanings are constant surprises. The identification and analysis of the elements generally associated with poetry – metaphor, simile, personification, and alliteration – have an enormous impact on student reading and writing not only in poetry, but in other genres. -- from The Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum FrameworkTwo Poetry Craft Tool BoxesMeaning2. MusicImageryFigurative LanguageMetaphorSimileWord ChoicePersonificationLines and Line BreaksStanzaRhythmRhymeRepetitionAlliterationDreamsHold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.--Langston HughesDragonflyThis sky-ballerina,this glimmeringjewel,glides in a gownof lucid blue—with wings that youcould whisper through.--Rebecca Kai DotlichDucks on a Winter NightDucks asleepon the banks of the pondtuck their billsinto feathery quills,making their own bedsto keep warm in.-- Georgia HeardWho Am I?The trees ask me,And the sky,And the sea asks meWho am I?The grass asks me,And the sand,And the rocks ask me Who I am?The wind tells me,At nightfall,And the rain tells meSomeone small.Someone smallSomeone smallBut a pieceofitall.--Felice HolmanTHE TREE ON THE CORNERI’ve seen?the tree on the corner in spring bud?and summer green. Yesterday?it was yellow gold.Then a cold?wind began to blow. Now I know –?you really do not see a tree?until you see?its bones.Lilian MooreFOGHORNSThe foghorns moaned?in the bay last nightso sadso deep?I thought I heard the citycrying in its sleepLangston HughesNEW SOUNDSNew sounds to walk on today,dry?leaves?talking?in hoarse whispers?under bare trees.Lilian MooreUMBRELLASIt’s raining in the city.?I hope it rains for hours. All of the umbrellas Open up like e look out my window! Polka dots in lines?Wag their stems and tangle, Tilt to read the signs.Plaid ones cross at corners, Striped ones wave about. It’s raining in the city;?The flowers have come out.Maxine W. KuminUNTIL I SAW THE SEAUntil I saw the sea?I did not knowthat wind?could wrinkle water so,I never knew that suncould splinter a whole seaNor did I know before,?a sea breathes in and outupon a shore.Lilian MooreGeorgia Heard’s Professional Books on Teaching PoetryAwakening the Heart: Exploring Poetry in Elementary and Middle SchoolPoetry Lessons to Meet the Common Core State StandardsClimb Inside a Poem: Reading and Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades Poetry Books for Young PoetsAll the Small Poems and Fourteen More by Valerie WorthHoney, I Love and In the Land of Words by Eloise GreenfieldI Feel the Same Way and Mural On Second Avenue by Lilian MooreCreatures of Earth, Sea and Sky; Falling Down the Page: A Book of List Poems by Georgia HeardA Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms ed. by Paul JaneczkoLemonade Sun, The Spin of Things by Rebecca Kai DotlichSpin a Soft Black Song by Nikki GiovanniA Writing Kind of Day by Ralph FletcherThere Was a Place and Other Poems (out of print) by Myra Cohn LivingstonThe 20th Century Children’s Poetry Treasury selected by Jack PrelutskyLaughing Tomatoes: And Other Spring Poems by Francisco X. AlarconWake Up, Sleepy Head: Early Morning Poems Mandy RossLittle Dog Poems and Hummingbird Nest: A Journal of Poems by Kristine O’Connell GeorgeYou Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together by Mary Ann HobermanMirror Mirror: A Book of Reversible Years by Marilyn SingerA Stick Is An Excellent Thing: Poems Celebrating Outdoor Play by Marilyn SingerForget-Me-Nots: Poems to Learn by Heart ed. Mary Ann HobermanPoetry for Young People Series: Carl Sandburg; Robert Frost; Emily Dickinson; etc.ScienceSpectacular Science: A Book of Poems ed. by Lee Bennett HopkinsThe Tree That Time Built: A Celebration of Nature, Science, and Imagination ed. by Mary Ann HobermanOutside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola DaviesStep Gently Out by Helen FrostRiver of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things ed. by Pamela MichaelLizards, Frogs and Polliwogs by Douglas FlorianDark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman Footprints on the Roof: Poems about the Earth by Marlyn SingerHistory and Social StudiesMy America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States ed. Lee Bennett HopkinsLives: Poems About Famous Americans ed. by Lee Bennett HopkinsAmerica at War ed. by Lee Bennett HopkinsTour America: A Journey through Poems and Art ed. by Diane SiebertArtSide by Side: New Poems Inspired by Art from Around the World ed. by Jan GreenbergTalking to the Sun: Poems Inspired from Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ed. by Kenneth Koch and Kate FarrellSongs of Myself: Poetry and Art ed. By Georgia HeardPE/SportsOver in the Pink House: New Jump Rope Rhymes by Rebecca Kai DotlichPoem Runs by Douglas FlorianGood Sports by Jack PrelutskySlam Dunk: Basketball Poems by Lillian MorrisonRimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms by Charles R. Smith Jr.MathMarvelous Math ed. By Lee Bennett HopkinsMath Poetry: Linking Language and Math in a Fun Way by Betsy FrancoEdgar Allen Poe’s Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems by J. Patrick Lewis ................
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