Abandoned Poem
Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Abandoned poem I am so excited because this past weekend I was told that I will be part of the Acadiana Writing Institute this summer. I will spend 5 weeks learning new and innovative techniques to enhance my personal writing, my students' writing, and my dept. Coaching Day was this past Saturday and one assignment I completed was to create a first person free verse poem based on a photograph. My poem follows and is based on a similar picture to this one that I found at Wednesday, April 25, 2007 http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0509/katrina31.html - the original picture that my poem is based on is this scene from a different angle and can be found in the book Eyes of the Storm: Hurricane Katrina and Rita The Photographic Story . My poem is from the perspective of the elderly lady. Abandoned I survived another tragedy She's left me again to death Yet I continue alive, alone, assured of one thing -- abandonment I know her reasons I understand h
