Poetry Friday: From What Have You Lost?
I am revisiting the Naomi Shihab Nye books in preparation for her upcoming visit here in Portland, OR (which I THOUGHT I got to introduce her but I am doing the intro to the student who will intro her, communication glitch)
Found the book What Have You Lost? collected by Naomi Shihab Nye
here yet be dragons
so many languages have fallen
off the edge of the world
into the dragon’s mouth. some
where there be monsters whose teeth
are sharp and sparkle with lost
people. lost poems. who
among us can imagine ourselves
unimagined? who
among us can speak so fragile
tongue and remain proud?
–Lucille Clifton
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Happy Reading. Next week the conference. Woohoo!!
MsMac
September 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I’m so happy that you’ll be meeting her! When will she be there again?
And thanks for that poem.
Jules
7-Imp