Poems!

Links to Poems Written from the Outside In (By Topic)

I have hundreds of poems in print and out of print and those that will never see print, some of which have turned up in blogs over the years.  

Daydreams and ADD

• Tripping
• Outreach?
• Amused

Definition

• Alone
• Fierce
• Hiatus

Education

• Sheering
• Stepping Out (graduation, video)
• To the Young Poet Standing

Family

• My Brother
• Wanted
• Labels

Getting Along

• Cooperation (video)
• Lies
• Pout (video)
• The Storm that Was
• Thinking Small
• Violence Hurts (video)

Holidays

• December

Love

• Fast Moves
• Like a Feather Lifting (video)
• With You I’m Traveling Through This Strange Land (a glimpse at More than Friends)

My Backyard

• Ahead of Time
• A Question of Mushrooms
• Doppler Effects
• How Does Your Garden Grow?
• Oblivious (a sonnet)
• Ode to the Mosquito
• The Garden’s Fall

Pets

• The Walk

Politics

• Democracy
• Democracy
• Comment (found poem)

Risk Taking

• Fear Factor
• The Ride
• Tryouts (video)

School

• Back to School
• Creative Grades
• Head to Head Haiku
• The Library
• Summer!
• Two More Days of School

Traveling

• Vacation
• Hanoi (list poem)

War

• What’s Real
• War is the Fiercest Art
• Arab Spring: Shifting Power in the Middle (found poem, with students)

Writing

• What I do to avoid writing
• Which Way to the Dragon (and a student rewrite)

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All poems © Sara Holbrook. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 

 

OPP (Other people’s poems)

• King Al-Mu’tamid, ‘The Prisoner In Aghmat Speaks To His Chains’
• William Shakespeare, Sonnet XXXIII
• Preschool Red, American International School of Abuja, Snappy Shapes
• Students at American International School of Lagos, MySister
• Second Grade Harare International School, Simile of Me
• William Blake, The Echoing Green
• Ben Weist (Grade 3), Swirl (a definition poem)
• Poems about surviving the death of a loved one
• Simran Ahluwalia, Creativity
• Abai, A clock is a Ticking Thief
• Julia Ward Howe, A Mother’s Day Proclamation