Poet and children's author Lyn Littlefield Hoopes, visited Mr. Church's class recently and taught an exercise to strengthen our ability to listen to our writer's voice. Mrs. Hoopes introduced the poetry we would write, by first introducing photographs she took at Yosemite National Park. She shared a few poems that she created in the moment. Our poetry would be based on paintings from the famous artist Vincent Van Gogh. We are going to write two poems about these paintings. The first poem we worked on was from the perspective of something in the painting. After this poem is finished we are going write a second poem from a different perspective in the painting. Here are two examples of poems that students have written;
Moon Glow Lake of Life
By Mae By Andrew
Swirly the sea I am the lake
Wavy the night Lapping quietly
Stars like fireflies At the shore
Glow oh so bright The wind
And I Lightly rippling
The moon My surface
The leader of light Churning the reflections
Look down over town Of boats
Lighting the night Into beautiful patterns
The Cypress curves up And designs of art
My glow flickering down The leaves
The stone bear of the hills Of willow trees
Is guarding her cub Floating down
The city below Ever so slowly
She’ll give it some love Landing silently
The river of sky In the water
Rolls like the sea A frog hops into me
The sight’s just enough Scared off
To really calm me By father and son
The sapphire sky Cattails waving gently
The buttercup stars In the breeze
The light and the love Birds calling softly
Shining down In the still
Is enough to be shared A fish jumps
All around Landing with a splash
Its mouth full
With juicy fly
A water lilly
Floating still
A bee pollinates
Its silver bloom
I am nature
This lake within me
