Pink Smash Folio - Where I'm From

Look another blog post! I have another page to share from my pink smash folio. This page is a bit special, as it has a poem that I wrote rather recently. It was an assignment for one of my college classes actually.  I am an Education major and one of my method classes was how to effectively teach the language arts to future students. I absolutely adored my teacher that semester and could gush about her for hours, but I promise I won't. I do want to share her book however for those who would like to try writing poetry.

First i want to share my page and poem:

Where I am From

I am from city slickers in a small town

farms and factories built on native ground

I'm from shopping at the mom and pop

before Walmart came around

I am from ghost stories and Stephen King

watching behind closed hands on the old wooden tv

I am from home cooked meals and southern hospitality

tastes of cornbread and cowboy beans

I am from the backyard gang of free rein 

double dutching where the green grass grows

close your eyes and count to five

18 on a 3 of a kind is where you'd find me

I am from bare feet overtop gravel

headed to get my belly full of sweets 

down at the end end carry out 

where Julie greets me with a smile

I am form the middle branch of the tallest tree

the backyard of honeysuckles and poison ivy

I am from pipe tobacco and old westerns

From bubble baths to Alan Jackson

I am from the old man struck down by fate

with his coin collecting and songs on tape

I am from old hands in gardening gloves

bible verses and quilts sewn with love

I am from that small corner in the thrift store

buried beneath a pile of books

a bathtub filled with pillows and weird looks

livin' happily in my own world with just me

I am from big dreams of breaking free

small town life not quite right for me

I am from goodbye kisses and farewell wishes

I am off to find me

I decorated the page next to the poem with pictures from my childhood. My cousins and I are at my maternal grandmothers house in the top left-hand corner. The bottom photo is my paternal grandmother's house. The woods behind that house is where a majority of my childhood was spent. 

If you are at all interested in writing poems I recommend this book by my former professor:

Wounded Writers Ask: Am I Doing it Write?

S. Rebecca Leigh

Amazon Link

The book is intended to be poetry prompts for students of all ages really. She had us work through the prompts in class and for me it was magic! I use to write poetry in high school, but it was awful. I hid it away in a notebook and shared it with no one. The poems I've written based on this book, I want to proudly share with the world. If my future career fails I could be a street poet! Just kidding.... maybe