SJT and Poetry Friday, Week 10: The Gathering of Young Poets

Welcome to Spiritual Journey Thursday (late edition) and Poetry Friday. How are we into week ten of the year? I'm a tad late as yesterday's dubbing job was a whirlwind of checking in books, meeting with students. Then leaving early as my husband has a dental emergency which requires the pulling of a tooth. so unexpected.  

This month Ramona from Pleasures from the Page asks us to reflect on 'Gather".  I instantly thought about how the Poetry Friday community gathers each week to share from our little corners of the world. 

We gather
words
family
friends

We gather
observations
the weather
the seasons

We gather
goodness
faith
wonder

creating poems
from moments 
of this life
~jone rush macculloch, 2024

For Poetry Friday, Laura at Laura Purdie Salas is gathering us all and sharing news of her latest book, Oskar’s Voyage . it looks to be a very cool adventure.
I have had the opportunity to  teach poetry in two different classrooms in the last month. The first graders were to write snowman poems in January but we were snowed out. So when February arrived, the teacher asked if it was still winter and could we do the snowman poems. we also created our snow people. He has seventeen students but not everyone was in the room when we wrote the poems.

Later in the week, I was asked to sub in a third grade class where they had been working  similes (it shows).  I used a poem from my WIP as a mentor text on How to Have a Friend.