Don Paterson Don Paterson Born in Dundee, Scotland, Don Paterson’s poetry collections include Nil Nil, God’s Gift to Women, Landing Light, and Rain. He… Grade levels 7-9 / Sec. 1-3 10-12 / Sec. 4 & 5 / CEGEP 1 Tags Isolation Outside the Box Mythology & Fantasy Exile Death Eerie Teen Spirit UK Moods Brutally Frank Depressed Despairing Discouraged Dreamy Haunted Hurt Lonely Melancholic Messed Up Snarky Sober Torn Tortured Wry Common Poetic Terms and Forms Assonance Couplet Metaphor Rhyme Rhythm Sonnet Contest Criteria 25 Lines or Fewer Michael Prior A Hundred and Fifty Pounds In some, the luggage lies open like a mouth mid-sentence. In others, closed zippers grimace: What would you have brought? Slippers, a stuffed platypus, a gold watch Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm sturgeon i twist and gasp open and close my mouth searching for air whenever a sturgeon is caught in the rainy river i know the feel of strange hands touching my body the struggle to be free Changming Yuan Chinese Chimes: Nine Detours of the Yellow River you are unaware of your obscure sources but you are explicitly sure of the vast sea as your final destination Cicely Belle Blain Dear Diaspora Child it's okay if you only learned about your culture from Google it's okay if you only read your language at the public library
