"Where I'm From"

My pre-service teacher did a lesson teaching this style of poetry. I loved creating my own! Check it out:

I am from good advice and proud embraces, 


From roiling sibling rivalry,

And the new adult love we have for each other.

I am from a tight-knit town with friends and family I’d die for,

From long rides to church and from the River family.

I am from sleepless college nights filled with darkness of soul,

From the black grip of depression and its deep stain.

I am from a relationship with Jesus Christ who changed my life,

From the One who can raise dead men from the grave

and who gave this girl her hope back.

I am from friends who stay friends for decades,

From sleepovers and manhunt and spoons,

From Jumping Ship and pigging out.

I am from innocence and Polly Pockets
From barrel-rolling down hills and picking strawberries

I am from Frank Peretti, Christy Miller, Mandie and C.S. Lewis.

From Charles Dickens, Stephenie Meyer, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Shakespeare.

I am from my completely opposite freshman roommate who I will always love,

From my sweet E, English connoisseur and soundboard.

I am from my high school sweetheart who is now my amazing husband

From sweet notes, starry nights, and feeling pretty.

I am from LAHS, the school I call home,

From each of my amazing students who make me love it here.

I am from Barbara Streisand, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant
From It’s a Wonderful Life and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Dick Clark.”

I am from being missions-minded,

From social justice, Philadelphia streets, and Messiah-Temple.

I am from TobyMac and old-school “Jesus Freak” rock,

From Creation and “Comatose.”

I am from thirty Chinese students who taught me their culture,

From teaching English in both our West and their East,

From two amazing teams of teachers brave enough to go.

I am from men and women who loved me enough to teach me,

From Jerry Wise, Bill Walborn, Shari Taylor-Stuckey, Crystal Downing and Nancy Shoemaker,

From Jan Simmons, Mark Ritzman, Dr. Peterson, and Professor Miller.

I am from “joy unspeakable and full of glory,”

From “no guilt in life, no fear in death.”

I am from a huge family and a small one, 


From beautiful, tall women and strong, hard-working men,

From Poland, Germany, Wales, Ireland, England, and the First Nation,

From a brand-new one filled with people who love me

From Osterreich and "Das ist Wurst" and great big belly laughs.

I am from so much love.