The prompt for the day is science.  Today I encouraged my ninth grade poets to break out beyond the sense to simply create interesting connections with words.  That’s what I am doing here.  I decided to embed each line inside syllables that would sound roughly like the word science.  With more time, it could be fun to try to tweak something like this into a more elegant poem.

Silent as a mouse creeping along a fence,
Simple the patterns, but intricate the sense,
Since what’s in the center is often intense,
Sift carefully through all the evidence,
Silt washes away, leaving behind reverence.

Gratitude List:
1. This morning’s sunrise, so intense I almost had to stop the car.
2. Green!  Skunk cabbages in the little creek-hollow along Ducktown Road, the briars beginning to green in the understory of the woods, ferns unfurling, lilies of the valley, chickweed, catnip, myrtle.
3. Pink trees
4. My delightful colleagues
5. The sweet concern of my students for my health.  Yesterday, I put on my Smart Board: “Voice Lost.  If found, please return to Room 206.  Also, bring chocolate.”  One student brought me brownies this morning and a get-well card she had made, with hilarious sayings about chocolate.  Yet another student recommended I take honey and lemon, this time with apple cider vinegar.  And now, my voice is returning.

May we walk in Beauty!