Creativity (Monday Poem)

by Eileen Spinelli

 

 

An artist takes:

 

colored pencil

piece of yarn

wooden slat from 

some old barn

sidewalk chalk

or spool of wire

can of paint 

or junkyard tire

twig or twine

or river rock

seed or seashell

woolen sock

bar of soap

or paper heart

and turns it

happily

to art.

 

Perhaps you have:

a shard of plate

a hinge from someone's

garden gate

a scrap of quilt

or rusty screw . . . .

 

then you can be 

an artist too.

 

 

from Falling Down the Page

edited by Georgia Heard

Roaring Brook Press, 2009