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Molly Hogan's avatar

Oh! I love "how to" poems and the form is a great fit for this challenge! The contrast of the still and the spinning in your first stanza really pulled me in. Your poem also feels quite apropos as you're on the brink of mapping out a new school year. I hope it's all smooth sailing!

Denise Krebs's avatar

What a delightful mapmaking poem and challenge to make one's own map. Maybe you'll share this with students. Have a great new school year, building relationships and maps for where to go together.

Catherine Flynn's avatar

Your poem is so full of possibilities, and I love that friends are going on this journey together.

Linda Baie's avatar

I hope this might be an assignment for your students, Linda, and love the idea of teaching your pencil! It's wonderful to imagine our own created journeys! Wishing you a grand start to the school year!

Mary Lee Hahn's avatar

I love this creative, mark-making, way-finding, world-learning poem, with its tribute at the and to every "you" who has accompanied us on...or showed us the pathway for our journeys!

Michelle Kogan's avatar

How delightful and inviting, let’s go!!! 💜 it all the twists, turns, sense of adventure, and imagination!!!

Margaret Simon's avatar

I love this poem that leads me on a map of the imagination. I especially like the stanza that begins, “Teach your pencil twists and turns and mountains-“. I have a practical question about formatting on Substack. Did you copy and paste the poem in or were you able to format within the article with spaces?