I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.