The Windowsill<\/p>\n
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\nIn a great blue house there is a woman
\nlooking at the ocean
\nlongingly.
\nAs if strings are holding her back
\nand the windowsill is as far as she can go.<\/p>\n
She wishes she could feel the cold sea,
\nlet the cold ocean breeze touch her,
\nwalk over sharp rocks
\navoiding cuts in her feet.<\/p>\n
She wants to feel the grass tickle her,
\nto see the big evergreen trees,
\nto smell the ocean,
\nto be a part of it.
\nBut the strings are holding her back
\nand the windowsill is as far as she can go.<\/p>\n
She wishes to swim away in her daydream as a fish.
\nShe wants to cut those strings,
\nbreak the window,
\nand fly away free as a bird.
\nAway to her wishes in the sea.<\/p>\n
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“The Windowsill” was written this year by Lucy, a fifth grader at Whittier Elementary in Seattle. Lucy worked with Writers in the Schools<\/a> writer Erin Malone,<\/a> who visited Lucy’s classroom many times over the course of several months with challenging and engaging poetry lessons. “The Windowsill” is an ekphrastic poem, written in response to \u00a0Edward Hopper’s painting, “Cape Cod Morning.”<\/p>\n For examples of WITS poetry lessons and poetry by students, please peruse the WITS Blog.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Windowsill In a great blue house there is a woman looking at the ocean longingly. As if strings are holding her back and the windowsill is as far as she can go. She wishes she could feel … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/kathleenflenniken.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Cape-Cod-Morning-Hopper.jpg\" "\\"Cape")
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