Api Taylor.
On Wednesday the 3rd of April Api Taylor came to our school and talked to a group of us about music and poetry. He was very creative with his words and his poems. I went in late to his show but from what I saw it was pretty amazing. He was interacting with the audience and making everyone laugh. After that was finished a small group of us went to a workshop with him where we went more into what write is about. He kept saying Writing Makes You Strong. He asked us to draw what we think writing makes you strong looks like ( I don't want to share mine because its embarrassing). The he said 11 words and asked us to write down the first word that comes to mind when he said the 11 words. my words were Water, Leaves, Hate, Beautiful, wet, Shine, Heart, Thunder, Sadness and Turtles. He then asked us to make a poem out of those words. My poem is The water tops shine as the beautiful turtles swim in sadness because the hate breaks their hearts for the wet leaves that got washed away in the thunder storms on the lonely days.
I really enjoyed the workshop and listening to him talk. He was very funny but also very serious all at the same time.I would love to do more workshops in the future because of how much fun they are and how good of a learning experience they are.
Izzy
ReplyDeleteGreat refection, and a tremendous poem. I also write as a way of 'having my say'. What would you poem look like as a visual metaphor, spaced out on the page?