As I drove to work this morning, I reflected on the comments shared on the post I Dwell in Possibility. The car is a tough place to write and I hurriedly got into the classroom and pulled my notebook out. I sat with the reflections during the day as they bubbled near the surface. Writing poetry is a space I needed and find comfort in as the school year unfolded. I find solace in the poetry and the unlikely moments it beckons.
in unlikely moments,
poetry beckons–
pulls me to her side–
she is a different lover–
no carnal, siren calls,
a modest, unobtrusive presence,
a compassionate companion whispers,
come hither friend–
sit, reflect–
here, realize refuge–
close your eyes
open your heart
observe,
pause,
discern an inaudible voice
ask, what moves the soul
animates a weary spirit,
urges the writer on,
words find paper.
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
Teacher as Transformer 
Beautiful Ivon.
Thank you Sheri.
That was a wonderful share of words sir.
Thank you.
YES!!! that is it exactly!
It is so is Len.
Well said. I’m not a writer, but I understand the urgent need to write down a thought that, “bubble near the surface.”
I imagine it is the same with photography trying to capture the perfect image that speaks to you.
nice and beautiful………..
Thank you Satish.
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Thank you Kate. I look forward to your return.
Beautiful thoughts put in words. May I call it manoyajnam — manosiddhi.
Spoken word had in it the lust re and the strength to pierce through the limitations of time and distance and spreads far and wide even to the remotest of recesses.of the readers.
It does. Thank you for the kind words Lvsrao.
I love your poem, and the way you craft your message. Bravo!
Russ
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