Rudy Fransisco is an American poet and author who’s won several awards and published multiple poetry books. In this poem, Rudy challenges us to stop complaining and start living. What is your favorite line from this poem?
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Amanda Gorman, age 22 and the first Youth Poet Laureate, delivers a beautiful original poem at President Joe Biden’s Inauguration. This poem is a wonderful example of the power of the spoken word. Her words touched the hearts of people across this country at a time when we needed it most.
This animated poem teaches the five steps it takes to write a slam poem. The illustrations are both beautiful and inspiring. The words are a powerful testament to the poetic process. This is a lesson of transformation in poetry, by Ms. Gayle Danley.
The pleasure of poetry comes from the pleasure of the rhythm of language. This is a lesson on repetition in language and the importance of balancing our own repetition with the rest of the world. Created by David Silverstein.
“We are our greatest gift.” Imagine everything we have and will be able to achieve with a world of shared emotion. Tomorrow is in our hands. Together, we can make it a better place.
A poem about acceptance. A poem about loneliness. A poem about belonging. Scott is what we all are.
Mathematics is powerful poem on immigration and what that means today. With over 65 million people displaced from their homes in 2015 due to conflict and persecution, it’s time we start looking at immigrants and refugees differently.
Want to accomplish your dreams? Want to fulfill your destiny? Want to do something with you life? You got to RUN AFTER YOUR DESTINY to make it happen. Need a kick in the butt to get started? Watch this video.
The flower with a Dream
I watch the flower
on the lady’s shirt in front of me
float away,
But every time I look back
there it still lays.
Forever stuck in a sea of cotton,
pretending to be free
with petals shaped to move.
The flower sees me looking.
Me, moving freely.
And it almost turns green with envy
but not really because
its color can never change
while it lays on the cotton shirt.
Perhaps one day it will learn
to move.
I doubt it
but who am I to stifle dreams.
– Katie Rose Waechter
