Writing Center launches Poetry Circle: Wednesdays after school
Poetry Circle
First Meeting: Wednesday, 14th January ’09
Location: The Atrium
• Do you find that scribbling a few lines of poetry is the best way to express your deepest feelings?
• Would you like to share your verses with others who enjoy poetry as much as you do?
Bring in any poems you have written last week, last month or last year to share with the group…serious, scary, soppy, scathing, anything works as long as it is poetry and has been created by you!
Watch out for the Surprise Performance by our special guest star on Wednesday, 14th January ’09
Where Poetry Hides for You…
In the tangle of slippers on the floor of your closet?
In the chatter of voices in the school bus?
In the microwave popcorn?
In avocados, artichokes and asparagus?
In your earring collection– the junky treasures of the years?
In your older brother’s piano playing – like honey in the air?
Look for the objects, the places and the moments where your poems may be hiding.
READ THESE POEMS WRITTEN BY OUR WRITING CENTER STUDENTS:
The Darkest Deal
by Adam Carrillo
The Earth
Waning away
Like a child’s castle of sand
Towers crumble
As they reach for the sky
But before they reach it
Blackness cloaks us
The prices constantly rise
Soon it will cost us our lives
We have sold our soul
To this black gold
Nature
It is easier to destroy than to create
Nature is the consummation of thousands of years of growth all leading up to a moment
a view with an invisible meaning conveyed only through experience
an experience leaving words at a loss
a million meanings simultaneously fusing together
such is the poetry of nature
a moment eternal in our minds and memory.
None can compare, none can surpass, nature’s beauty and grace
a timeless force
a force that brings both creation and destruction
a perfect balance
such is its majesty
Life mirrors nature
flourishing
growing
believing
experiencing the worlds wonders
and then ending so that another might do the same,
an eternal cycle
The man Hitler ordered to destroy the Louvre went back and faced execution because he believed the art was more valuable than life
Would you let the greatest masterpiece of all be destroyed?
written by Muhammad Yousuf