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!
For today’s magnipoem, I was looking up close and personal at the zipper on my little cloth bag that I keep in the car. It holds my hand san, my eyeglass cleaner, emergency toothpaste, etc. Its zipper is not big and metal. Like many zippers now, it’s plastic, and since the bag is small, the zipper is delicate.
And here’s a pic of my process. What really struck me about the zipper was the idea of two separate sides coming together to coordinate into something useful.
And if you’re looking for something different, check out the resources on my Poetry Page for some more ideas.
[My Classroom Connections posts share a way to connect one of my books or poems to a classroom topic–often something timely that you might be covering in the next month or so. Please share this post if you have educator friends who might be interested–thanks!]
5 Responses
Love your Zipper-licious poem so much packed in between those two delicate and narrow tracks, thanks Laura!
Hey Laura, the above comments from me, Michelle Kogan—wonderful poem thanks again!
Thanks, Michelle–and I love zipper-licious!
Laura, you make your process seem so easy. I think adding your steps are wonderful tidbits for teachers and students.
Laura, I resonate with your plastic zipper magnipoem because I can’t always rezip them together. I love how visual your first stanza is with all those /s/ and /k/ sounds. Then, the first stanza becomes the second stanza like magic. I like your rhymes and how your second stanza could be referring to something else, too. I love how this stanza “one row, a woven flow, holds everything together” flows off your tongue. Thank you for showing your process, too.