Everyday Use

our muscles

grow strong with

everyday use

strong arms can offer

a tender embrace

a heart that is brave

can soften with compassion

a clever mind can

find time to daydream

sharp eyes can see

both sides of a problem

and the fastest feet

can slow to march

the long road

to justice

Grade levels
3 & 4
5 & 6
Tags
Ontario
Struggle
Moods
Calm
Confident
Courageous
Sober
Contest Criteria
25 Lines or Fewer

How do you keep your heart strong?

I do lots of things to keep my heart strong. Can you think of three activities you do to make your heart strong?

Dive In written by
Zetta Elliott

Adèle Barclay

RAINBOW ROCK-CLIMBING CLUB

I’m a gecko on a wall 

that simulates a cliff 

with rainbow grips 

I’ll touch any colour 

that’ll have me 

midway is high enough 

wary of emotional 

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Leonardo DiCaprio

My ex-boyfriend got measurably more attractive

and all I got was a dad bod.

Leonardo DiCaprio has a dad bod,

and for whatever reason this is reassuring to me.

Leonardo DiCaprio finally won an Oscar

Wanda Coleman

In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever

we were never caught

 

we partied the southwest, smoked it from L.A. to El Dorado

worked odd jobs between delusions of escape

drunk on the admonitions of parents, parsons & professors

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pied Beauty

Glory be to God for dappled things —

For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;

For rose-moles all in stipple…

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