Traveling Poetry Friday

Thanks to Carol at Carol's Corner for being our host this week!


          It's very late, but I wanted to share a poem about this week, and what it's meant to me.  I am at the All Write Conference in Warsaw, Indiana, seeing amazing people present, meeting all, ALL those with whom I'm written for over two years now--Ruth, Stacey, Mary Helen, Amy, Bonnie, Christy, Deb G., Karen, Katherine, Ramona and Nancy. And meeting new people too, connecting because we are interested in being better educators.  It's been a marvelous day and there's one more to go!


          And I'm meeting and talking with these wonderful people kind of like we've know each other a long time.  And while it hasn't been many years, the time has passed, and stories have been told and read and appreciated.  What an inspiring group!

I found a poem about what we do, that speaks to the courage writers take when they put out their words for others.  I hope you like it as much as I do.

The poet is Anne Sexton, and the poem is Courage.

It begins:
         

It is in the small things we see it.
The child's first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.

      and the rest is here!