Inspired by blogger Molly Hogan over at Nix the Comfort Zone, I decided to try my hand at some found poetry…and to introduce my students to this process as well.  To ensure student choice and accessible reading, I decided to head over to Wonderopolis and choose a Wonder of the Day as my source for a found poem.

I picked the article, Where Does Sea Glass Come From? and set off to select words that would become my own original poem.  Following Molly’s model, I decided that I would only use words I “found,” not changing word endings or adding any words of my own.

Sea Glass

 

Stained

Works of art

Ocean recycles

Frosted, smooth

Mermaid’s tears

 

Tumbling

Water, waves, and sand

Tossed

Etches

Bottles, jars

 

Treasures

Collect glass

Collect art

 

Examine colors

Green

Brown

Blue

And clear

Weathered

Scarcity

Sea glass

 

Douillard 2018

My students selected their own wonders today and started reading and selecting the words they would use for their own found poems.  We ran out of time before they finished, so you’ll have to wait until tomorrow for some examples of their found poetry.

I do have a couple of Haiku from the two students who have not yet had a poem appear on my blog yet this month.  The first is a Haiku about Haiku:

Haiku

a Haiku makes you

use cuts and say five seven five

made 12th centuries

Gus

Plant

Lush green reaching up

to the shady blue, never ending

sculpture with stained white

Max