What if I could just lay outside with grass as my green carpet and the sky replete with clouds as my ceiling? We leave childhood behind so easily?
I lay on green carpet shaggy–
Enrobed in leaves’ greenery;
Silent words breezily whispered–
Bluest blue ceiling revealed;
Cotton batten shapes dance–
Oh, just for me this day!
Night arrives–
The sky wrapped in ebony–
Distant neon signs wink–
Moon’s maternal smile–
Each welcomes–
Just me, this night!
A child’s heart, a child’s mind;
Paints precious images–
Hold close;
Do not let them fade–
Close eyes:
Priceless memories, just for me!
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 
Lovely.
Thank you Vicki.
This is good! So good.
Thank you twice over.
I believe that those who had a beautiful childhood, and learned what needed to be learned then, can leave childhood behind and go forward. For those who suffered, it might be harder to leave it behind…
There is truth in that. I often wonder about the pace of adult lie and if we make time for the little pleasures that a beautiful childhood made available.
Beautiful. Conjures images of brief moments long past…and now resurrected. Thank you!
Thank you Carrie and you are welcome.
you have a gentle heart…I have posted your blog on my Facebook page…many of my friends are teachers…i know they will love your writings! thank you also for visiting my blog!
Thank you for the kindness Jane. I appreciate the share.
“Priceless memories”. Yes, I agree.
I am glad you enjoyed.
I like this poem a lot, Ivon, especially since you wrote it. I’ve often thought about capturing such feelings in a poem or song but haven’t yet gotten a project to a point where I feel I’m accurately capturing the feelings well enough. I believe that you have done so with this poem. Well done.
Russ
Thank you Russ. I appreciate the comment. I hope you find the lyrics and music for your poem or song. I am not a musician, but am influenced by many folk singers i.e. Dylan, Seeger, Buffy St. Marie, etc. and the power of their words.
The choice is always there to do such things.
Only if we do not turn away from the child inside each of us.