Happy August everyone! Today was my first day with a wonderful group of students that I get to teach creative writing for the month of August. We started the week with Acrostic Poems. These fours poems are ones that I wrote during our free writing time. The students got to pick out themes so we had lots of summer, fantasy, and animal poems.
Sunlight is hot on these long days
Under cloudless skies wishing for
Mist and rain and cold popsicles in bright colors
Melting on hands and faces like clowns, we
Exist slowly in these moments, waiting for
Relief from the heat when the sun sets on summer nights.
White, silver, inky black, dirt brown fur
On the move under the moon
Loping in single file down the path through
Valleys and forests, across rivers and streams
Every wolf stops to howl, their
Soulful songs float through the sky
All night long digging for
Ants. Long ears listening for tiny feet
Running through underground tunnels. He
Drags his long claws through the hill
Violently hungry for an insect meal.
After, he sniffs the air with his piggy nose and
Returns to his burrow to wait out the day
Knowing when the sun sets he’ll eat under another desert moon.
Dangerous and powerful, their noble heads
Rear back on sinuous necks as they blink their cat-like pupils.
And yet they are often kinder than you or I.
Great wisdom is their birthright, and we are jealous
Of their intelligence and mercy. So we chase them
Near to extinction, as they fly from us with tired wings.
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