Don’t let April slip away without writing a poem. It’s poetry month after all. Not sure how to start? Be a part of building our group poem on facebook or try your hand at a “My Name Is” poem. Don’t think too hard, just fill in the blanks by writing the word or phrase that comes to mind:
Today my name is ________________________. Yesterday my name was ______________________. Tomorrow my name will be ___________________. In my dream my name was ____________________. My _______ thinks my name is ________________.
Below is Donielle Hetrick’s version of a My Name Is poem. Donielle is an AmeriCorps VISTA with CIS and has been working out at Linden Grove Middle School and Northglade Montessori Elementary School since October 2012. She completed the poem as part of a warm-up exercise we did as part of VISTA training last week. Stop down to City Hall today between noon and one and you can meet Donielle and our six other AmeriCorps VISTAs who will be with Mayor Bobby Hopewell and former NFL player and Loy Norrix graduate, TJ Duckett, for Ready, Set, College! For one hour these folks will all be sharing the same name: “one who is collecting college gear for students soon graduating from high school.”
My Name Is
Today my name is drank expired milk for breakfast.
Yesterday my name was lover of pj’s.
Tomorrow my name will be sunshine lady.
In my dream my name was henchman #3.
My grandma thinks my name is Katie, Pat, Deb, Donielle.
What’s your name? Who will you be tomorrow?
Tags: AmeriCorps VISTA, Christina Czuhajewski, CIS, Communities In Schools of Kalamazoo, Courtney Galloway, Donielle Hetrick, Eun Lee, Lauren Longwell, Mayor Bobby Hopewell, Mayors' Day of Service, New World Flood, Peggy Korpela, poetry month, Ready Set College!, Shereen Allen, TJ Duckett
