Magic Words

School
Clissold Elementary School

Poet in Residence
Mayda del Valle

Date

What if you could speak a word and make something magical happen? That’s the question we started this week off with, before reading an Inuit poem called Magic Words. We had a lively discussion about all the magical things we would make happen by just saying one word out loud. Some students even made up words, like 3rd grader Emilia below. Enjoy this week’s poem!

School
Clissold Elementary School

Poet in Residence
Mayda del Valle

Date

After School Poetry Club

Exta Hope Emilia B.

Hope is a powerful word when
I think of hope I feel exta (very happy)
one night I was thinking of hope and
exta, then I had a dream. I could talk
to animals. I said I don’t care
what you are, I love every animal
equally. Then I absorbed magic powers
so I can stop people that are hurting
animals and I can also help nature.

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