National Poetry Month: & the Words In-Between...

A few of the poems this month didn't quite fit into Death, Life or Work so those became "the words in-between." Here's one of those poems that didn't quite fit, a history in haiku form...

Family complete.

History Haiku

A winter night

in LA thick with cosmos

and love at first sight.

Moved here for some boy

but I stayed in this city

all because of you.

Single apartment

a futon and a circle

commute. Our courtship.

No-ring proposal

A summer evening wedding

Baseball honeymoon.

We didn’t know how

to be married but were good

at pretending house.

We buried ourselves

in truths and somehow became

perfect together.

First there was the pup

and then a daughter. A bite

and we lost our dog.

Unexpected loss

brings our baby boy to us

family complete.  

52 Poems: Week 36 Night Haiku

Night
by Noriko Nakada

It only takes one
breath, one blink, one sigh, to take
in a starry sky

52 Poems: Weeks 27, 28, and 29

Ah, I was doing so well, but vacation does strange things so I didn't post or read any poems for the past few weeks. Here are a few haiku I've penned along with some photos from vacation to get us caught up.

Lincoln

A sweltering day
wading in a cool green pool
cousins sweet laughter

 Portland

Family and friends

on perfect, long summer days

finish with ice cream

 Bend

No longer the town

where I grew up but the

river, the mountains 

GOT Teachers?

I attended one of the most disheartening of meetings today. My employer unveiled a new process for which I will not be evaluated. It's called, wait for it, G.O.T. or Growth Over Time. It's a way my value as a teacher will be not be judged based on how well my students bubble in answers on a flawed assessment. Well, I won't be evaluated or judged by it yet.

Awesome.

Now, I could go on, and on, and on... about how much this sucks but I thought instead I would write about something I love about teaching. And hey, it's NaPoWriMo, National Poetry Month so I figured I would write a little something about my second job. It's a haiku. It's all I could muster.

When students mistook
Sasquatch for a vegetable
It made me chuckle

I dare you. It's April. Write a haiku comment. All the cool kids are doing it.

If you want to read more about GOT, here's a link to Emerson's PD Blog.