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 youuse cuts and say five seven fivemade 12th centuriesGus
PlantLush green reaching upto the shady blue, never endingsculpture with stained whiteMax
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