Greetings, haiku lovers! I hope this new year continues to sparkle with new inspirations for you. There's a guaranteed shine from my blog each time I get to share a student poet and his or her work.
Today, we have a special luster to enjoy - our Student Poet of the Month is Pearl Sullivan, a former student of Tom Painting's at The Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pearl is 15 years old and a sophomore at Paideia.
She has lived in Atlanta for most of her life but she lived in Dublin, Ireland, for two years, moving there with her family when she was five and moving back at age seven.
"I like hanging out with my friends and family, reading, and playing sports," she says. "I started writing haiku in 7th grade as homework and grew to really love how every poem is simple but also has a deeper meaning."
Here are some of Pearls' wonderful poems:
my excuse
to rise from slumber
blood moon
raindrops
slide off the shingles
singing in the rain
history class
I discover
myself
an old song
on the radio
my breath quickens
new snowfall
blood red berries
among the thorns
frozen mid-laugh memories
Poems ©Pearl Sullivan. All rights reserved.
Many thanks to Pearl for sharing her thoughtful poetry with us today. Which ones especially strike you? [I'm a sucker for the punch of a great one-line haiku (sometimes called a monoku), and the final poem here I find very effective!]
For more posts in this series featuring talented students, please click here.
To continue our journey in a new year of wonderful poetry, please make your way to The Opposite of Indifference, where the ever-shiny Tabatha hosts our Roundup today.
Today, we have a special luster to enjoy - our Student Poet of the Month is Pearl Sullivan, a former student of Tom Painting's at The Paideia School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Pearl is 15 years old and a sophomore at Paideia.
She has lived in Atlanta for most of her life but she lived in Dublin, Ireland, for two years, moving there with her family when she was five and moving back at age seven.
"I like hanging out with my friends and family, reading, and playing sports," she says. "I started writing haiku in 7th grade as homework and grew to really love how every poem is simple but also has a deeper meaning."
Here are some of Pearls' wonderful poems:
my excuse
to rise from slumber
blood moon
raindrops
slide off the shingles
singing in the rain
history class
I discover
myself
an old song
on the radio
my breath quickens
new snowfall
blood red berries
among the thorns
frozen mid-laugh memories
Poems ©Pearl Sullivan. All rights reserved.
Many thanks to Pearl for sharing her thoughtful poetry with us today. Which ones especially strike you? [I'm a sucker for the punch of a great one-line haiku (sometimes called a monoku), and the final poem here I find very effective!]
For more posts in this series featuring talented students, please click here.
To continue our journey in a new year of wonderful poetry, please make your way to The Opposite of Indifference, where the ever-shiny Tabatha hosts our Roundup today.