Lines from the Mind

Remembered instants heartbeats of significance, recognition and recall memories shared, thoughts painted in our relationship capturing the moments: we laughed together, paused together, dreamed together, looked at life together through time's eye. These memories make us fully human, alive to the best and worst of who we are. Even as we remember do the memories change? Elusive wisps of clouds morphing into different colours and shapes, changing our thoughts feelings of treasured minutes or painful pasts. Credits: Image from: Pixabay.com Ideas from: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/memories http://www.human-memory.net/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-our-brains-make-memories-14466850/?no-ist WALT:   To create a poem that captures what memories mean to people so your readers feel your emotion and thinking. Success Criteria:  The words we pick fit together  The ideas work together line by line  To use ...

  It started... just a tickle of noise transferred through tin roof, then thundered louder as white marbles hit, bouncing also on tarmac. Boys faces lit with excitement, bodies quivered and reading Animal Farm was lost. Faces scrunched against windows, Asked for Release, Set free they ran into the pain shirt soaked wanting to experience hailstones on heads Crazy moments at school.

Part of Professional Development today was to write something...yay! We talked a lot about our beliefs of writing - here is a pic: We read a poem and asked what is the sense of the poem? How did she write? What are the words she used a lot of? - look for verb use. WALT: To capture a memory using the 'feeling' sense mainly.  To use commas to separate ideas for the reader  To use ellipsis (can be used to indicate a pause in the flow of a sentence), fullstops and capital letters. Bush Shadows On inside rain-trapped days.... My eyes remember Bush dark ferns, manuka trunks, Sunlight strokes, Shaping shadows, My feet remember dirt track, dust covered boots, My face remembers light breeze just stirring, My body remembers stationary silence- leaning to beauty, My heart, my mind remembers peaceful colours, tranquil contrasts. Sunset dips, Night bucket fills, Painting black.

Image Credit: pixabay.com It starts with a whisper a rustle of leaves breathed on by wind, Scudding clouds arrive gusts slam branches protest, bending pain to grey black clouds. Tree fingers are broken falling pain to sodden grass. Rain knives slash from overloaded buckets driving deep into my clothes. I stand waiting for a bus, Cold, excited loving the whipped movements, the power, the storm. WALT: Learning how to write free form poetry to capture in words an experience. Criteria: One idea per line Strong vocabulary Cut small words Use commas to set the rhythm of the poem Credit pictures

Black cat god arches, flicks her tail, art hieroglyphics revere felines across a thousand walls, centuries years old now. -----sand hourglass time trickle----- My black cat stretches Lazy in heated sun A God of just one family Scratching the door to be let out, to be fed. The mighty Nile Seasonal Floods Rich blessings for ------generations pass------ Dairy, cropping, forests, farms Stretch patchwork across Canterbury Plains Waimakariri scatters its braids sprawling to the ocean. Yellow Sand, clay walls seared in scorching sun, Neighbours crowded water carried dry the bones ----- existences come and go----- Christchurch city wood and brick dwellings stretched over flat plains,  meandering Avon Artesian crystal clear water piped  toilets, drinking, cooking Just turn the tap. Crowned Pharaoh supreme God of Pyramid, Sand and Nile Words that command life, death ------ time moves by---------- Commands wealth Captains of industry multinationa...

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

Your browser does not support this audio GOLDEN MASK - Credit: Wikipedia Once I eternally slept nightmare tossing, dark traps sprung, death tonnes of pyramid granite fell on tunnelling robbers. I silently laughed but they relentlessly came for my riches. I am Mighty Pharaoh Army surrounding, protecting me, Servants entombed alongside ready for my royal decree. As robbers break last barriers I command; Disconnected Failed None responds My wealth plundered with pitch tar torches and scrabbling fingers, Even my face lifted in triumph Gone... Stolen security. Dreams now wrapped dry warmth again, Sensing walls once more Prying touching fingers, Unknown words painted on walls around, crude, not like the picture words that gracefully adorn my bandages, A tomb solid but disgracefully invisible like an empty soul window, They tap on my walls but so close to touching me they turn back. I laugh, The God's smile. I am stolen yet slum...

Picture remixed from Pixabay.com. Can you see my eys? Excuse my squashed writing For I am writing this poem From inside a couch, Just yesterday, I fell asleep in the sun Streaming hot through the window And I slipped through the cushion gap To join the lost coins, gathered dust and dried food crumbs. I hear the outside world muffled by leather and foam I'm interior, you're exterior I hope you can read this note I slipped out. For I'm squish writing this poem From inside a couch. Success Criteria We read, "It's Dark in Here" a poem by Shel Silverstein to inspire us in our "point of view" poetry.... The boys followed this model closely and then with larger variations as they produced two pieces to reflect how writers have a point of view. The montages were produced with creative commons images using layering, masking and montage techniques with Pages on their macBooks. To write in a poetry style that has been given. To tre...

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.