This was not originally a poem. It was a summary of the past year and the struggle to find a new space where I could create and be fully present. It all began in Oakland about this time last year and has grown with each ensuing day.
It just happened–
I let go
Spoke without anger–
A sadness;
For what is lost.
Stared into the abyss–
Sat with unformed questions
Terrifying
The darkness;
The incompleteness.
Took stock
Looked inwards–
Accepted extended hands
Discarded baggage
Walked towards the light.
Mojo gained momentum–
Sprung up in a creative space
Simple presence
Live my truth;
With each moment’s question.
About ivonprefontaine
In keeping with bell hooks and Noam Chomsky, I consider myself a public and dissident intellectual. Part of my work is to move beyond (transcend) institutional dogmas that bind me to defend freedom, raising my voice to be heard on behalf of those who seek equity and justice in all their forms.
I completed my PhD in Philosophy of Leadership Studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA. My dissertation and research was how teachers experience becoming teachers and their role as leaders.
I focus on leading, communicating, and innovating in organizations. This includes mindfuful servant-leadership, World Cafe events, Appreciative Inquiry, and expressing one's self through creativity. I offer retreats, workshops, and presentations that can be tailored to your organzations specific needs.
I published peer reviewed articles about schools as learning organizations, currere as an ethical pursuit, and hope as an essential element of adult eductaion. I published three poems and am currently preparing my poetry to publish as an anthology of poetry.
I present on mindful leadership, servant leadership, schools as learning organizations, how teachers experience becoming teachers, assessement, and critical thinking. I facilitate mindfulness, hospitality retreats. and World Cafe Events using Appreciative Inquiry.
I am writing and researching about various forms of leadership, how teachers inform and form their identity as a particular teacher, schools as learning organizations, hope, nonviolence and its anticipatory relationship with the future, as essential elements to teaching and learning.
Academic publications can be found at Ivon Gile Prefontaine on ResearchGate
I’m learning…simplicity is a good way to start off…but in your case, your simplicity in this poem tells it all..well written. Thank you for the sharing.. 🙂
~ KeY
You are welcome KeY.
Truly words we can all live by…Thank you, “Teacher.” 😉
You are welcome.
I love your words, Ivon… They speak your truth so succinctly…!
Thank you Carolyn.
Beautifully written, Ivon.
Thank you Cher.
A beautiful poem Ivon,and the truth is so moving…
Thank you Valerie
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I love it, especially:
Simple presence
Live my truth;
With each moment’s question.
Russ
Thank you Russ.