#6 The Summer I Was...

The Summer I Was Sixteen

Geraldine Connolly

The turquoise pool rose up to meet us,
its slide a silver afterthought down which
we plunged, screaming, into a mirage of bubbles.
We did not exist beyond the gaze of a boy.
Shaking water off our limbs, we lifted
up from ladder rungs across the fern-cool
lip of rim. Afternoon. Oiled and sated,
we sunbathed, rose and paraded the concrete,
danced to the low beat of "Duke of Earl".
Past cherry colas, hot-dogs, Dreamsicles,
we came to the counter where bees staggered
into root beer cups and drowned. We gobbled
cotton candy torches, sweet as furtive kisses,
shared on benches beneath summer shadows.
Cherry. Elm. Sycamore. We spread our chenille
blankets across grass, pressed radios to our ears,
mouthing the old words, then loosened
thin bikini straps and rubbed baby oil with iodine
across sunburned shoulders, tossing a glance
through the chain link at an improbable world.


Use this poem from the 180 book, as inspiration for creating your own poem.
You decide the year etc.

The summer I was... or use the template as inspiration for the ______ I was ______

Your Own Poetical Creation! # 5

This week I would like you to pick one of the poems that you have created thus far. Polish it, make it shine and post it on your blog. You have written some beautiful poems you have shared with the class and possibly some amazing ones you have yet to share.

Pick something you like and want to share with the rest of us. I look forward to some amazing blogs this week. Blow me away with your genius!

Conversation Heart Poetry Blog #4

Although I do not think this particular candy is edible, I do love to play with them.  They are great for creating poems! I hope that you enjoyed playing with them and were able to create something extremely creative! This week post the picture of your poem from class.  Be sure that you also tape a picture of this poem in your journal! Can't wait to read your fabulous poetical creations!

This blog is extra special so it will be due on Wednesday.

Love Blog # 3

Love Padlock tree in Moscow.

As we approach Valentine's Day and look for love poems. They are all around and do not have to be written to a person!  I encourage you to read a lot to help as you begin to write your own.

 We have read in Poem Crazy about using images to encourage inspiration. I have put several images which may help to inspire you, or I encourage you to find your own.  You will want to print the image and attach it to your journal with your practice work. Really look for something that creates a strong emotion within you and use that as your muse for this poem. After playing around in your journal create a final poem to post on your blog. 

Be sure to include the image on your blog with the poem it helped to inspire.  Create your love or anti-love poem.☺

All over Europe there are love padlocks,
they started appearing in the early 2000s;
no one is sure who started each one.
 There is one in Rome where the ritual of
affixing love padlocks on the bridge
 Ponte Milvio is attributed to the book,
 I Want You by Federico Moccia.
 I think is a beautiful sentimental tradition.

El Beso is in Lima, Peru

This cute scene can be found in Ottawa

                                       

       

In Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love

I love this in the fountain in Paris

This is the meeting place by Paul Day
 at St. Pancras Railway,  in London; there
are some great statues here.

The loveseat is another padlock and tribute to love in Italy.

Of course, there is Romeo and Juliet in Central Park.

Valentine's Art in Time Square

Hearts like these are all over San Francisco.

This set of pictures is from Emily Campbell's Love Ties, it is absolutely genius the words are all about Hanley Park in  Stoke on Trent.  She created these pieces "a reminder of distant memories, of words once spoken that can and often are so easily forgotten or torn apart. As it lives in the park a permanent and solid nature the reminder of these letters is not allowed to die, they can't be retracted or torn up. Love Ties serves to remind us that despite what we may have neglected, our words can and often do live on in others."