Poetry and Kidschool

I love poetry! It is so amazing to me the way that art so seemingly effortlessly communicates on so many levels, with precision, economy and beauty!

When my family and I learn poetry together, several things take place:

• The poetry unifies our minds in a shared experience that we can all appreciate for our own reasons.
• The poems become a part of our family’s story, and we can use citations and allusions to color our expression and communication.
• They help us to think symbolically and creatively, and they teach respect for the power of language.
• Poetry teaches the discipline of memorization (with subject matter that you can recur to over and over again with ever-growing relevance–no diminishing returns like cramming for a test!!).
• It creates a personal intimacy with meter, rhyme, tone, style and imagery that feels like you are the one who wrote the poem in the first place. What a way to come face-to-face with greatness, no matter the age!

I wanted to share with you a few poems that have been fun for our family, especially when we were all younger.

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