A Poem a Day

As you may or may not know, I work for an education organization called Writers in the Schools (WITS).   Each year WITS celebrates National Poetry Month (April) with A Poem A Day, an outreach project that promotes poetry and the written word. WITS selects a poem by our student writers to represent each day of the month and shares that poem through emails and by displaying the poems in local Houston businesses.

To sign up, email WITS at mail@writersintheschools.org. WITS will email you a new poem each weekday in April. For local businesses, we will deliver 30 poems by children, an acrylic stand, and instructions on displaying the poems. 

Here's a sneak preview from the April collection:

She Left Me: A Cowboy Poem

She left me for another man
She took her stuff
And just left
I sat there and cried
She and I had so much time together.
She left me
I bought her shoes and food
And I bought her a house
There's only one thing to do
Buy me another horse.

I had so much fun with my new horse
That I forgot about the
other horse

A week passedAnd guess who I saw?
That's right...She was back.
Clean broke
Skinny and shoeless
And I was happy to see it.
I said "Hey."
"Hey," I said.
"Ney."
"Ney."
She cried.
I told her,
"That's what you get for leaving me."
I was a good man and I told her,
"Scram."

Carlester, 6^th grade

Comments

[Robin Reagler]

I had to add the sign-in step to the comments section because I was getting a lot of spam comments last week. Apologies for the inconvenience!

[Blondie]

Happy to sign up again this year!

[Mermaidgrrrl]

That's such a cute poem. I thought at first he was talking about a girlfriend. I luck his moral tale of not putting up with any horses shit and having self-respect in a relationship ;-)

[Mom101]

Wow, that's just amazing. It's always impressive what children are capable of if we just shut up and listen to them for a minute and give them a chance to do their thing. And your organization sounds amazing too - I'm going to spend some time over at the website just as soon as I leave this one.

Thanks so much for the nice comment over at my place and for leaving the trail back here. Your kids are gorgeous.

But now that I know what you do for a living, I really hope you don't come back and find my Poetic Suckitude post. That would just be embarrassing.