Bluebonnets

Took a Professional Development Class on Given Language.  The idea is to look at other prose or poetry and use it to inspire writing.  Here are my three inspired writings during class....


Bluebonnets-  Meagen Winter

When I think of my first independence of my youth, all that I seem to remember is bluebonnets- open fields hidden by oak trees- quiet still, uninhabited, dry river beds with the sounds of past flash floods roaring, lingering in the air.  I don't know why  I should remember only the bluebonnets.  Surely, there must have been, hidden creatures- signs of other humans, tracks, laughter hiding in the leaves rustling in the humid hot wind; but memory is a translucent window--  it does not present things as they are, but as they feel.  And so, when I think of my travels to my own Terribithia, I remember only the peace of heart, God's grace and light, the courage of a conqueror, a happy go lucky girl.  And one other thing I remember, another incongruency of memory-  the fear of being alone and dying-  that old rotted out trunk that served as my bridge to the blue bonnet field.

-  inspired by "Marigold" by Eugenia W. Collier




Within me lives a

THIN Person

            who is energetic and athletic and can put
lotion on the bottom of her own feet.

She prefers , however not to eat fat free chips.


- Meagen Winter

- inspired by an advertisement for Evian Water


Crazy- Meagen Winter

You'd have to be crazy
to want to take a writing class
during the summer,

Handing over precious "me" hours,
the missed latte, and
having to set the alarm clock.

You'd have to be crazy
to want to go to class and
"share" your feelings and deep
dark secrets to strangers who are
just looking for professional development credit.

You'd  have to be crazy
to want to fill your mind with the
possibilities to empower your students
and provide them a safe place to
learn and become.

You'd have be crazy.



inspired by poem  "Crazy" by Angela Johnson