Adoption Carnival: Poetry
Submitted by admin on May 30, 2010 – 7:13 am20 Comments
As a Middle School teacher I always ended my school year with poetry because my students were always squirrelly. For me, poetry was exciting to teach the final weeks of school. The grass was green, the trees were in bloom, the flowers were sweet. And Middle Schoolers?
Ah, the sweet puppy love. Cute 7th graders held hands and stared at each other across the lunch table. They shared cute little text messages and walked each other to class. Who am I kidding? 7th graders were getting more nookie than I was some days. Hurumph.
And, they knew how to write about it in some of their poems.
But this isn’t about them. This is about you.
Carnival:
Write a poem about adoption. Simple…
Link up to Mr. Linky
Mine’s up, and I didn’t follow directions, because I roll like that.
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I pulled out an oldie but a goodie from my archives.
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I’m in too…but I don’t think I probablly fall into the category of happy adoptive gooey crap (I read the two before me and I’m thinking that is apparently where I should have fit in…but not that surprised to not fit in anywhere…tis the life right now). I’m starting a new trend of “MAD for my kid…MAD for me…MAD about the lies and deceit… WANTING ANSWERS SO IT STOPS HAPPENING TO MOSTLY KIND AND WELL MEANING PEOPLE AND ALWAYS CONFUSED AND HURT CHILDREN”
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Done. Thanks for the prompt. (Though I recycled)
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Posted my poem — although I kind of cheated; it is a poem written by my son’s 2nd grade friend — but I couldn’t have done better!
Hartley
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It wasn’t easy, but it’s done. Thanks for this carnival… we all need our inner poets awakened once in awhile.
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[...] I saw Suz’s entry in the GIMH Carnival for adoption poetry, I pulled up my old, locked archives. (Remember, I’ve been blogging since 2001. It’s [...]
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[...] Grown In My Heart » Blog Archive » Adoption Carnival: Poetry [...]
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This is my first submission. And so it goes.
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[...] It’s carnival time at Grown in My Heart, and this month’s topic is Poetry. [...]
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Ok, mine’s up…..I feel like we need to read these outloud at a coffee house somewhere…..
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Okies, put one up from my archives as well.
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I recycled one that I wrote when I was a teenager (a LONG time ago!) and posted recently on my adoption blog.
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This is about the pictures my surrendered son sends me. We have an email relationship only at this point. Add to your poetry if you wish.
Pictures
My son sends me pictures
Digital dreams float on screen
Water, water everywhere
splash of streams, sparkle bright
Hudson river flows, sweeps on
to lakes of deepest blue
a mystery
Paths through dappled green,
magic sunlight, mystic trees,
solitude
interspersed
by warning signs
So many layers of stone,
ancient mountains worn
to smooth hills, sleeping
Lush velvet summer, late gift
blue haze on the Catskills
Bridge that passes to another day
Trails to heaven, roads and ruins
no human face or hand
but his, in rare frame
fishing
He sent me this
To let me see
the sacred space
a window
On all the camera catches
that soothes his soul
that heals my soul
that speaks like water
precious word.
mary anne cohen
Aug.2009
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My kids wrote the poems for this one — Zoe, age 9, and Maya, age 6.
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Up!
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Sweet. Technology works! Posted.
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