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Back To School Almost

8/16/2011

 

This is the not-yet period.
September still adumbrates; 
But school is in session
in my head.

The anticipation grows.
The need-or-want 
purchase of supplies.

The annual potential
of that have-to-get
item that will make
classroom life easier.
Sometimes, it does.

Decor decisions.
To theme or not to theme.

The toppling pile(s)
of picture and chapter
books and more books
such guilty-lovely finds,
bursting to be introduced.

The whirling, spinning of ideas;
evolving strategies;
adrenalined new thinking
to share and explore.

The excitement of
reflecting back
so to be transformed;
To go forward anew
and begin again.

The rush of back-to-school.
Tara link
8/16/2011 08:27:27 am

"Adumbrate" - what a cool word to use, perfect! Your poem really captures what I'm thinking about the new school year, too.

Jennifer link
8/16/2011 08:28:32 am

What a wonderful way to show what the beginning of the year is like! I love how you said "School is in session in my head" because that's how I feel right now too!

Linda Baie link
8/16/2011 08:54:04 am

A fine collection of just right words for this time of year. Every teacher would love to have it! I love lines 3 & 4 - 'But school is in session in my head.'

ruth
8/16/2011 10:56:02 am

Wow....just wow.
This is fantastic not only in content, but in the way you wrote it. So many phrases resonated with me that I cannot decide which to comment on. I feel almost like you reached across cyberspace and peeked into my before-school-starts mind!

elsie
8/16/2011 11:11:32 am

You have captured the right before school time perfectly. I can so identify with the stacks of books, school supplies on sale and ideas swirling in my mind.

Diana Martin link
8/19/2011 02:10:05 am

So many wonderful lines . . . "the need-or-want purchase of supplies" and "books and books such guilty-lovely finds". Love, love, love your words and how you put them together!


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