And now for something completely different....

It's been a while but I'm back - this time it's for revenge. I'm going to post mini phrases, lyrics and/or poems using the super-duper, fool-proof Kate method. During my practice teaching I used a method of eliciting descriptions from my grade 7/8 students using word tickets - with the hopes ofcourse of encouraging them to write poems. I had the students 1) think of their favourite words, 2) write them on game/admission/liquor tickets(available at any $1 store), 3) place them in my poetry hat(a horse helmut I bought at a garage sale for $.25) and then 4) draw 7 words from that hat to write a phrase, description or poem. It worked fabulously. Dave and I tried it last night with much success. Here is today's poem. The words in bold are the ones I selected.

From Purgatory's house, I sit at the kitchen table drawing with an azure pencil, the skies I see from the sink window, anticipating Heaven.