Hi, and welcome! During National Poetry Month, I’m posting a magnipoem each day that I can. That’s a poem inspired by my simply looking at an object under a magnifying glass for 1 minute each day, and then jotting a poem. Feel free to try this with students (you can have them just get up close and personal to something and study it closely for a minute). If you want to share online, tag me (@LauraPSalas) or share here in the comments! You can see all my magnipoems here.
It would be so easy to look at just leaves and seeds and foods all month. Today, I looked for a little something more unusual to study, and I grabbed an old protractor that my dad used in his career. I found I wasn’t really studying the protractor as an object as much as I was thinking about how much it represented the personality of the person it belonged to. Oh well. I didn’t set up too many rules for this month, because I wanted to see where just looking at things would take me. Here’s today’s magnipoem. [ETA: Oops, This is a compass, NOT a protractor. Thank you, Mary Lee Hahn, for catching my brain burp.]
And here are my drafts, plus the protractor itself!
Looking for some more poetry ideas for National Poetry Month? Check out the resources on my Poetry Page!