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Larry and Poetry

I first got to know Larry when I took over teaching a literature class from a colleague who was too ill to continue, and Larry was a student in the class! As is often the case, the students were all rather skeptical about my ways of doing things which were very different from the previous teacher. I announced to the class that night that we would pick up at the point in the syllabus with the study of poetry--most groaned but didn't resist. After class was over, Larry approached me and said he didn't like studying poetry very much. I listened to his comments about old, dead, stuffy poets--I'm not sure why he had the idea we would be studying such poetry. I encouraged him to keep an open mind, though, and promised him that we'd try to make it interesting.

After four weeks of reading, writing and discussing poetry, he sheepishly admitted that my choice of poems and poets were "not so bad" and he thought maybe I'd like to read something. He handed me a sheet of paper on which he had written a bit of verse. I don't recall the words, but I could tell his poem was from his heart and he had something to say. Over the years since then, he has shared a few other poems that he'd written. A few years ago, when he and Debbie celebrated one of their anniversaries, he proudly announced that he all sorts of plans including a poem for his wife. I hope that each of his poems will be found and treasured by his family.

Posted by Bertha Wise
Tuesday April 26, 2011 at 9:32 pm
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