I haven't written any poetry for a while ... certainly nothing that has even got close to what could be described as finished.
But today at St Chad's Sanctuary, we took a break from preparing for reading exams and wrote poetry. Once again, I was able to appreciate my students' ability to say so much with so little and to admire their capacity for creativity, as together they produced poetry which included:
Quite apart from being a whole lot of fun (at least for me, and hopefully for my students too) and being another different way of reinforcing some English vocabulary, it also inspired me to come away and use a similar premise and structure to that I had given them (somewhat extended) to write something of my own:
A Palette of Emotions
Sadness is a
monotony of grey
It is the silence
of a shadowy, starless night
It is tear-smudged
streaks across an unfinished page
It weeps
Happiness is
a warm, amber glow
It is the
harmony of voices raised in joyful song
It is swirls
of colour dripping from a brush
It laughs
Anger is a
deep, brooding red
It is scarred
and bloodied hands wrenched apart
It is a dark
stain spreading across an expanse of white
It kills
Excitement
is a sparkling yellow dashed with golden glitter
It is the warm
embrace of a long-awaited reunion
It is uncontrolled
splashes of brightness
It dances
Fear is a deep
blue as unfathomable as the ocean
It is the
toes curled against seeping damp and biting wind
It is torn-off
corners and jagged edges
It trembles
Hope is a
thousand unnamed shades of green
It is the freshness
of damp leaves after spring rain
It is a pen
poised above a blank canvas
It waits
Humanity is the
confused beauty of a well-used paint palette
It is the depth
and complexity of all our experiences
It is a new
story forever unfolding
It lives
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