YAY, Evan!!!! Bravo!!!

I co-wrote this ZENO triptych poem with my 8-year-old son. He was curious about my efforts to create poems for submitting to an anthology about ice and the environment and wanted to contribute a poem. He loves animals and so he wished to write about polar bears. He has written, with my help, a handful of poems about animals and two about the environment. With this poem, he wrote more than 50% of the words with encouragement from me to simplify or use a thesaurus to expand how he could say something. I then took the prose we had created and utilized the “zeno” form created by J. Patrick Lewis to f…
For the Arctic Bruins
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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Nov 20, 2024
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YAY, Evan!!!! Bravo!!!
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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