17 April 2013

Imagery

I am working with some of my students on haiku right now and trying to teach them about imagery.  Here is a beautiful image for you.

Butterfly

Can you paint a psalm?
Can you wallpaper a dream?
I can -- with my wings.

by Jane Yolen, from Least Things: Poems About Small Natures, page 12.

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