Poetry begins with the utterance of a single word, but not just any word, a singular word.
Think bevelled. Toothsome. Quintessential and Zenith.
This month, we will explore a vast array of wonderful words and ways you might inspire your students to become word collectors.
With words, we build phrases—another inky night sky, that supercilious salamander, you marvelous prickly cactus.
With phrases we form sentences. Take this one, crafted by Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas about poetry (an Ars Poetica sentence, if you will):
“Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own.”
Stay tuned this month as we share all things poetic.
~Kimberly