Getting to Know You--Name Poems
For our first assignment, we wrote 'name-poems' using the following guidelines:
- name
- describe where you live
- what are your dreams/hopes
- what are your fears
- questions you may have about the world
- what do you bring to the world
- what do you need/take from the world
- one or two words that are inspiring to you... or a clever ending
We encourage you to write one too and post it here so we can get to know each other!
Here are a few entries:
Brandy Lawrence
A doodler in the margins
I am not familiar with formality
Do not believe in normality
Likes to be odd,
Not full of conformity
But that's enough of the simple lines
and cliché rhymes,
but there we go,
a few more just jumped the boat
so what can I say,
I suppose I like being this way
Different and unexpected
A change both in face
And creative ways
I don't know you,
You don't know me,
That might always be
Or it may change
But who can say
When the lead won't stop
And I don't know enough
But hey,
Its okay
You won't say
Its like my privacy
Kailey Rinder
Kailey
Hmmm, I wonder
Creative sparks
Ooo
I made this dress!
No right no wrong
Must be wrong and right
Tucked away
In the trees
Tucked in childish melodies
Dancing, running
Leaping, humming
Please don't make fun of me!
Sarcastic, yup.
Sorry
I'm sorry
Sorry
Dreamery
Feary
Uptight
Hush and listen
Hope to be...
Hope to stay...
Hope to always be the little
KayRay
Beth White
She who goes by many names
A one-year-old pronounced d her Kit-Kit
Strangers mutter, "Hey Red"
Friends settle on Carrot
She, a farm girl
With her dog in back
Dreams with one foot in the past
Holding too tightly to
Lost loves,
Old stories,
Seeing youth
Slip
Away
Aiming to bring
Joy
Hope, and
Smiles
To the dark world
She sometimes feels like a failure
Taking tales
Stories and
Lessons
In return
She, this redheaded warrior,
Presses-on
Day in, day out.