We are each creative in our own personal and unique manner. It requires a mindful, contemplative approach to life to allow us to see ourselves as the poets, authors, and artists of our lives. It is in those gaps between the stimulus or gift we receive and the response or offerings we return to the world. The world and universe surround and envelope us in its richness. We pause and realize our world, its gifts, and our opportunities. It is in those pauses we refresh and create.
We journey
We occasionally pause
Muse a moment…
Soak in the world…
In so many ways;
Our hearts touched.
Its sounds–
A luxuriant symphonic backdrop;
A barely audible sigh;
Scarcely heard
Always there
A gentle pulse.
Its sensual touch–
Soft caresses…
A tender lover
It embraces
Wraps us in its arms
A safe place.
Its smells
Drift on a breeze
A rare restaurant
A delectable menu
Its richness
Appetites soothed.
Its sights
Visually adorn nature’s wall
Blend colours and materials
Masterpieces hung
Set upon the mantle
Shaped from nature’s gifts.
The world expresses itself;
Not in words
Yet, as a poem
We are each poets
Served and serving
We craft a life.
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 
How beautiful, Ivon…. a lovely start to my day..!
Once gain..Ivon I am mesmerised by the beauty of the words that you have strung so poetically.It seems like you are a true messiah of creativity and maybe you should be the instructor for teaching creativity to young children.God bless !
Thank you for the wonderful words Swati.
Perfectly lovely sentiment expressed beautifully, Ivon. We do craft a life and that life is poetry. Bravo!
It is certainly an artistic and creative endeavour. One could substitute their brand of creativity into the poem. Thank you Jamie.
Very well said, thank you 🙂
You are welcome Mike.
We pause, we muse and we soak in the world…how true and beautifully expresses the creation that is our journey!
Thank you for the wonderful comment.
Good words.
Thank you Alex.
This is beautiful.
Thank you Kim.
Well narrated. Beautiful wording.
Thank you Lvsrao.
I love the last lines,
We are each poets
Served and serving
We craft a life.
We do craft our lives – each person individually, no matter how many people surround us. We make our own decisions, and craft our lives. Thanks for sharing, Ivon.
You are welcome Marsha. I am glad you enjoyed the poem. I think life is a work of art and needs to be viewed.
It is indeed. We also need to show it off a bit, or it would be like having a masterpiece and keeping it in a storage room instead of a showroom, or keeping the door locked so no viewers could come in to view it. It would be selfish if we have a talent, the time to express it, and to shy, modest or selfish not to share it with anyone! 🙂
Such beautiful words.
Thank you Victoria