Poem-making

Santa Fe Poet Laureate Joan Logghe and musician Jeremy Bleich offered a poetry performance at the Southside Branch Library recently with a selection of twenty poems from cultures around the world. The children wrote the following poem with Joan’s help at the culmination of the event. As Joan says, “It goes to show that when things are noticed, read, and written down, a poem may occur.”

A Little Santa Fe Poem

from Joan and the Giant Pencil kids

Santa Fe is noisy, a lot of cars
like a traffic jam.

Red and green chile, they're hot.

There are golden leaves all over.
it's cold in the morning at 7:00.

A lotta trees, a willow tree
it smells really rusty.

Smoke in the air this morning,
there were fires in the fireplaces
you could smell the piñon.

Yesterday was cloudy,
I felt like it was going to rain.

Big sky. Big stores. Big Mountains.
A lotta schools.

A great big red firetruck too.