Monday, April 26, 2010 Everyday Heroes
"Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them."
— Dennis Gabor

A Poem Is

A Poem Is
Nancy Weber shares: "As the director of a creative writing organization, I have heard a lot of amazing, wildly creative poems and stories written by young writers in our workshops. However, I was absolutely stunned by this beautiful poem by Sadie McCann, a five year=old girl from our workshop at the Brooklyn Public Library, Bay Ridge branch. If she hadn't written it right in front of me, I would not have believed that she really wrote it herself. I have the poem hanging above my computer, and I refer to it whenever I need to be reminded that writing a poem is indeed a pure act of love." Sadie's poem:

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