i am a love poem

In celebration of love, Maya and I wrote love poems using one of our favourite metaphor activities that asks multiple questions that begin “if you were a…….”
If you were an island what island would you be?
or
If you were a song what song would you be?
Each stanza begins with ‘I am’ and you can have as many lines in a stanza as you want!

This is a great exercise to do with kids, adults, and self if you find yourself in learning environments where creativity means getting ‘it’ (whatever it is??) right for someone other then one’s own glorious natural full bloom imaginative self!

We share our love poems with you!

I Am a Love Poem

I am a love poem
swimming in the Caribbean sea
riding my green horse into Ireland;

I am a love poem
eating sugar apples
relaxing in a hurricane
while landing into St. Lucia;

I am a love poem
China Ann McClain
Playing a drum set
licking cookie dough ice cream
on Grand Anse beach;

I am a love poem
tasting macaroni pie
while smelling a hibiscus
and reading the diary of Ann Frank
sitting by the waterfalls.

By Maya St. Clair



I Am a Love Poem

I am a love poem
floating in the south pacific
Painting the sky magenta
running with wild coyotes in Zimbabwe;

I am a love poem
sucking cherry red pomegranate seeds
waiting for a sun shower
drumming to the beat of St. Lucia;

I am a love poem
playing my mandolin
to the soft rhthyms of Etana
mocha fudge cream wrapped around my tongue
cartwheeling on the shores of Pomquet;

I am a love poem
crisp as vegetable spring rolls
bold as giant wild sunflowers
Free as the house of spirits
Ancient as carib stones.

By maureen st.clair