Madison's Poem

t's 8:15 on a Thursday evening. In preparation for our upcoming poetry celebration, I'm scanning in all the poems that our students will be sharing. It's tedious work, but I enjoy reading over each child's poems as I feed them into the scanner and save them to the computer. I ran across this poem by Madison that I really liked.

My Writing Notebook

I fill you up with
good ideas.
Each on so
different
in
so
so
many ways.
Unique words
fil each line,
as my pencil
glides
across the
paper.
Revise,
Edit,
Publish,
Finish!

It wasn't one she chose to share at our celebration, but I think it's one of my favorites. I love how Madison sees her writer's notebook - it's a place to look at the world and capture her ideas. But it's never really finished, is it? Our writing keeps leading us to new ideas and new thoughts. Madison's inspired me to be more diligent with my own notebook. I hope she has inspired you, too.