A place that is yours

Please think of a place that you feel somehow belongs to you. It doesn't have to be your room, it could be somewhere that you go by yourself or with friends. But think of it and describe both it and your history with it.

Please write the story of this picture.

Please partner up and answer the following questions.

Please start your letter with the name of the person that you would like to aplolgize to. Then, be thorough in your apology. Recount why you are sorry. Mean it. This doesn't mean that you will ever give this to anyone, but it might just make you feel better anyway.

Hope
   
It hovers in dark corners
before the lights are turned on,
it shakes sleep from its eyes
and drops from mushroom gills,
it explodes in the starry heads
of dandelions turned sages,
it sticks to the wings of green angels
that sail from the tops of maples.

It sprouts in each occluded eye
of the many-eyed potato,
it lives in each earthworm segment
surviving cruelty,
it is the motion that runs the tail of a dog,
it is the mouth that inflates the lungs
of the child that has just been born.

It is the singular gift
we cannot destroy in ourselves,
the argument that refutes death,
the genius that invents the future,
all we know of God.

It is the serum which makes us swear
not to betray one another;
it is in this poem, trying to speak.
   
~ Lisel Mueller ~

After reading the poem above, try to describe one of the following emotions with a poem of your own, taking into consideration the use of imagry that Lisel Mueller uses to push her idea forward.

Try it with:

Despair    Anger     Compassion    Pride, or choose another emotion of your own.