POETRY WRITING

These Inklings are inkblots from the inkwell of my mind.

She Fumbles in Beauty

She fumbles in beauty, you see,

the night sometimes brings the unforseen.

With the hop and skip of the day she is seen

Springing, skipping, skitting...or whatever she may... in her elegant ways.

Toward the graitational pull spellbound, she replies, we all have our ups and downs.

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Rain

Brilliant, wet

filtered through syncopated Trajectories,

knocking down Trust

fumbling through pungent Words,

stalking Confidence

pulverizing Dreams

knotted Promises

falling to pulmonary Arrest,

pelting my tongue - jewels from a child's eyes.

3/6/09

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Principal's Office Visit for Three Voices

In my office right away?

Please, can't it wait inwardly whispered decompressed

And miss the rest of the spoken word show?

Hesitating class eyes careen sideways, sneaking, peeking

Through the door, clickety, snickety, heckedy,

You're going to get in trouble!

I follow demurely; she, quite surely.

Eyes of perverse pleasure signaling, better you than me!

Have a seat.

Those poets are quite inspiring!

Stone-walled, granite statuesque, unapplauding hands-

An oxymoron in her seat.

Living language playing on stage of nuance, craft and form.

Quite an opportunity! I take it, you do not agree.

Those young men are not role models!

They are not!?

Their language inappropriate; students deserve better than this.

You deem these poets vulgar? I hear ribald, my head recalls.

Did you meet them? Did you greet them?

Of their stories, what do you know?

Have you listened from your heart to recognize this art?

When did you start putting them through a standardized test?

The N word was said!

It will be repeated by those who have had it flung in their historied faces.

Oh, yes, there was that reference to sex.

Did you not interpret it as inference?

I have heard much worse from students who curse!

Did they not pass the 6 Trait Writing Assessment?

Organization a

Grammar a

Vocabulary Choice except for the N word

But that could be called

Voice a

Author's style a

Yes, as you were saying.....something else was playing out ahead.

Who would you want your students to become: repressed and out of date like you or articulate and passionate like them?

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Notes: Three speaking voices are identified by font styles below:

Times New Roman italics text = Principal's voice

Tempus Sans text = class (chorus) voice

Arial text = Protagonist's voice

(Feb. 9; April 6, 2009)

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