Bob O’Meally wrote this poem. As I read it, it reminded me whatever I choose in life, it is music. I am grateful for creative spaces as a learner and teacher. They provide music in my life.
I left the poem on the left margin to stress the way the poet formatted the poem.
Make music with your life
a
jagged
silver tune
cuts every deepday madness
Into jewels that you wear
Carry 16 bars of old blues
wit/you
everywhere you go
walk thru azure sadness
howlin’
Like a guitar player
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
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Teacher as Transformer 
Beautiful!
It definitely is.
YES!!!!!
It is a beautiful poem.
A lovely way to live, and expressed so well in so few words. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, the poet did a great job with minimal words. You are welcome Lizzie.
Life, with is many rhythms, is musical. I love it! Great post, Ivon! Thanks for sharing! 😀
You are welcome and thank you for the comments.
Thanks again, and a very happy and Merry Christmas to you and yours! 😀
jagged!
That is a word that sort of stands out for me as well. Life is not smooth.
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Thank you. I appreciate the gesture.
You are welcome Ivon. Best Regards!
Very Beautiful.
It truly is.
Gut geschrieben.
Liebe Grüsse von uns.
Wolfgang
http://youtu.be/m9l_t1ydkOA
Thank you for the beautiful video.
Thanks for posting this Ivon, it is a beautiful poem. When I read it I remembered a poem I was taught at secondary school (many years ago!) which remains for me the most powerful statement of the effect of music. The poem was For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin (it is here if you want to read it http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/philip-larkin/for-sidney-bechet/).
It contains the line “On me your voice falls as they say love, like an enormous yes.” Larkin’s tribute to the power of New Orleans jazz.
Thank you. As I read it, I could feel the flavour of New Orleans, its music, and people in the lines. It is a beautiful poem.