2.28.08

Poetry... Today's scan comes from a 3rd grade poem I penned. My poetry was doomed from the beginning. I can still remember the day w had to write this. I couldn't get my original poem to rhyme. I remember I went to my teacher (Mrs. Anderson) and I broke down in tears. She instructed me to to write about my current feelings. How insightful of that educator to allow me to express my feelings of death at the age of a 3rd grader. What she doesn't know is that this poem has brought me great laughter and entertainment since then. It has also encouraged me to the fact that I am not a poet.