Three Poems About Writing (Inspired by My Students as Writers)


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The new school year always reminds me how to think more deeply about the act of writing. I watch my students, as they write, and wonder about their minds, their imaginations, their struggles, their success on the page (digital or paper).

I wrote three short poems this week about writing: the first is about pencils (but really about word choice); the second is about erasers (but really about decisions); and the third is about paper (but really about what we write on).

Some words
never get spoken —
the pencil tip snaps,
broken thoughts
on paper.

 

My fingers
brush away
the soft pieces of
eraser — small
crumbs of stories
struggling to remain
within the lines

 

Where once we crumpled
paper, with discarded
lines and thoughts

Now we hit delete,
and think: recover what
was lost.

Peace (off the page),
Kevin

PS — these small poems are part of a daily project to write a poem every day on Mastodon.

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