Lines from the Mind

Using the Extreme Poetry Resource, exemplar and the extension activity .. here is a poem you could create. WALT: To create a poem that captures a personal experience or topic in a summary form. Criteria: To write strongly and communicate. To use Thesaurus and Research to extend vocabulary choices and make sure every word is “precious” To collaborate with a partner to produce a shared experience by creating poems that impact readers. To understand and use alliteration and forms of grammar.

Faleva houses dappled paint skin buried in bush pockets friends for twenty years leaning drunkenly, shoulders rubbing, rubbish skipping happily past, Mates sheltering the disenfranchised home for the poor, erratic power toxic water. Trapped in the corner surrounded by politics and rich people power decisions. The bulldozer chuckles forward teeth glinting Scars rusty flexing bully muscles, Carving swathes of pain through the falvela, Crushing hopes nightmares breaking bones. Either take our money and run or pay the price, of our batons riot police advancing, Pay the price of our Olympic dreams.

Image Credits: WikiMedia, ClipArtCottage Light Emitted and absorbed light obvious and mysterious, These glimpses create more questions. Surface afterglows, in evening air Sunset, now gloomy place colours removed. City lights glow sky masking three thousand hesitant pinpricks, Cosmic energy flung clusters and scatters Universe wide. Particles float on turbulent atmosphere, Light is bent, Stars twinkle. W Grieve 2014 This poem came from a search at first on light, then sunrises and finally stars. WALT: To write a poem that communicates creatively my thoughts. Success Criteria: The words we pick fit together The ideas work together line by line To use punctuation to enhance the meaning and help the reader. I have added my own thoughts to put in my voice. To credit the sources that I used.

Image Credits: Wikimedia. A poem is not a chair, but it can make you comfortable. A poem is not a fridge, but it can leave you cold. A poem is not microwave, but it can heat the soul. A poem is not a carpet, but it covers life's flaws. A poem is not a curled cat, but it can make you feel warmth. A poem is not a LED screen, but it entertains. A poem is not a door, but it can open alternative thoughts. A poem is not a pathway, but it can take you to new places. A poem is not a gate, but it can break holes in barriers. A poem is not a pavement, but it can crack you up. A poem is not a flower, but it blooms ideas. A poem is not fresh-air, but it expands mind-lungs. A poem is not a walk, but exercises aspirations. A poem is not a scurrying ant, but embraces curiosity. A poem is not the dappled sun, but it powers creativity. A poem is not the universe, but it always expands the reader. A poem is not a bus-stop, but is an alternative beginning. WALT: To write a poem...

Dapples flicker leaf sheets wind blown branches dance shadows on the grass Torch reflecting light on words book hidden under the sheet with me reading late night parents asleep Darkness stolen centimetre by centimetre Sunrise. Hot sun through Sunday afternoon window Head nodding eyes drooping warm sleep.

In a vast universe room We are picked up By a giant hand Carefully placed on the glass slide. Lights blaze on And our opacity lowers Until self is revealed, Shadows inside out.

Mystery Not for the first time I sense something more It tugs at the corner of mist wrapped mind or maybe deeper than that somehow tugging at a corner of my mind that is connected to the universe. A mystery that is dark,  yet burns bright causes fear yet seems wrapped  in the deepest love imagined A journey that leaves me naked but wraps me in a wonderful light it opens, calls

Growing darkness Merges with the shadows of rustling, whispering trees Time of slow starlight reflection evolves into creation You stand cold wind edging your thoughts Looking at the stretched expanse shimmering star lights The world... universes... Made

A Friends hand... Credit: Pixabay.com  In the welcome smile quick, “Hi” Sharing a joke, An invitation to sit beside A game to play together Moments shared. I journey from a part to whole from alone to included A friend ship voyage.