A Poem A Day

Even though National Poetry Month was in April, I didn't want to backdate this post and have it get lost in your blogger readers.

I found these bookmarks on a shelf at The Teahouse, and thought these two poems were amazing, even more so when you learn they were written by 3rd graders!

This one is by Skye --

A poet writes words,

And she thinks of happy places.

A poet dreams and

feels like she is floating.

A poet sleeps, and

she feels like flying.

A poet thinks about

a ladder and feels like

climbing it.

In light of all the school budget cutbacks, it's even more important to support programs like this.

Click here for information about their summer workshops.

Be sure to sign up next year for April's A Poem A Day delivered to your email address.

Writers in the Schools (WITS)
engages children in the pleasure and power of reading and writing. WITS writers work in year-long programs in over 350 classrooms in order to help students develop their creative and analytical thinking skills. With a focus on at-risk, inner city students, WITS also offers workshops in art museums, hospitals, community centers, private schools, and juvenile detention centers.
WITS leads the WITS Alliance, a national initiative that involves mentoring similar writers-in-schools programs, serving as a model for multidisciplinary arts educators, and sharing innovative approaches to teaching. WITS was recently ranked the #1 literary organization in the state by the Texas Commission on the Arts.