We had SUCH fun recording announcements.... but technology disagreed! So here's a screenshot to prove we were all there and smiling!
Mrs. Borgione shared something she is very passionate about - Poetry!!
Tomorrow, Thursday, April 30th, is National Poem in Your Pocket Day. You can celebrate by selecting a poem, carrying it with you, and sharing it with others. Join in and channel your inner bard! (Of course, we invite you to share poems any and every day year-round!
Here are some ways you can celebrate Poem in Your Pocket Day:
Choose a poem from
our collection (or yours!) and give the gift of a poem to others! Print copies of the poem or share it digitally. Come up with a creative way to distribute it, such as in the form of a folded-paper animal or object or in a short .Video with sound and images―a decorated scroll, a poem tree, or a bookmark. Get creative and have fun!
- Hold a virtual poetry reading with friends and family.
- Compose an original poem! Don’t fret over rhyme, rhythm, syllables or length―poems come in all sizes and shapes!
- Share a picture with jdrozd@orangecsd.org of you reading or writing poems!
Today, I share this poem with you!
Instructions on Not Giving Up
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate
sky of Spring rains, it’s the greening of the trees
that really gets to me. When all the shock of white
and taffy, the world’s baubles and trinkets, leave
the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath,
the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.
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Today, our National Poetry Month continues with a poem that is most fitting for this time. So many people are working to keep us safe and provide us with necessary services. We are grateful for everyone who is giving! In the poem, When Giving Is All We Have, by award-winning poet Alberto Rios, he shares the importance of giving, no matter how little it may be. Enjoy today's selection here.
