DISCUSSION:
What is an example of a “good” touch?
What is the difference between conceptualizing touch and experiencing touch?
How does poetry “touch” our hearts?
POETRY LESSON #4: Touching the heart
It is almost impossible to touch someone’s heart literally while that person is still alive (unless you are a heart surgeon!). But poetry touches our hearts.
ACTIVITY:
Shake hands. Hug. Faire la bise. Pinch yourself. Touch your hair. Touch objects around you – wood, metal, stone. Think about the nerve-endings in your fingertips!
CRAFT:
the necessity of love poems … and some common problems (like clichés!)
List of words naming and expressing emotions
TRADITION/PEER POETS:
Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz,” “I Knew a Woman,” and “Elegy for Jane.” See Selected Poems of Theodore Roethke.
WRITE:
Write a poem about an experience of being touched, a poem to touch someone’s heart, or a poem remembering when someone touched your heart.
HOMEWORK:
Congratulations! You have completed your first five days of Dr.B’s “Intro to Poetry.” Your homework is to revise the poems you have written and read poems of your choice … from Haiku Mind by Patricia Donegan.
THE POETRY PLACE 
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