a community poem

Here is an exercise in a community poem!

Can you each add a few abstract/ poetic lines about this subject in relation to your own life? Maybe begin with "I am a child of______" or "I am a _____ child." Afterwards we can delete our names.

Julia:

I am an island child who forgot

though I've always drank water like there's no tomorrow

and argued with paints that thought they were green



Katy:

I am a child who is grounded in the reality of imagination

who dances around the living room

whose joy cannot be contained

so whose squeals are so loud that the neighbors can hear



Rachel:

I am a child of dreamy far away-ness

I watched the butterfly tree in the afternoon

I heard the bird tree at dusk

I smelled dinner and ate a little tree called broccoli



Shane:

I am a cowboy child. Complete with boots, hat,

accent, and a gold painted scorpion bolo tie.

I wish I still had that thing, if I wore it today people would love it.

There are so many objects that

were heavy with significance to me when I was young.

Like that Smily Dinosaur watch with the googly eyes.

I broke it the first day I had it by tripping

on the bricks with ants. That was one of my

saddest cries.

Maddy:

I am a child of wild imagination

My biggest pet peeve is wet socks

I use to wear a fake tail in the super market

I once tried to make my Mother laugh in Church by sneaking plastic vampire teeth into Sunday Mass

she laughed...

I was grounded.





Amy:



Becca:



Justin:

I was a child of endless energy

I would have bottled and sold it if possible

I was a child given activities to reach exhaustion

I am an adult who never feels like he is doing enough



Kellie:

I am a dusty child.

Naked in boots.

A mirage, tainted by vitality and soul. A purpose for winter coats.