Lisa Ann Gates
@cohslgates.bsky.social
Retired teacher but not retired from the world of life, learning, and education
She/her
"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
She/her
"If anybody asks you where you're coming from, say Love"--The Avett Brothers
A late Dianthus midst the falling leaves. It's never too late to bloom.
October 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A late Dianthus midst the falling leaves. It's never too late to bloom.
The internet and AI carry the process even further!
August 30, 2025 at 9:46 PM
The internet and AI carry the process even further!
“Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only”
August 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
“Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only”
Hahn by Katherine Fritsch. Overlooks DC from the National Gallery. A humorous feminist response to the celebration of male accomplishment.
August 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Hahn by Katherine Fritsch. Overlooks DC from the National Gallery. A humorous feminist response to the celebration of male accomplishment.
Goodness becomes grandeur/ Surpassing might of kings.
Langston Hughes
#PoeticTruth
#LangstonHughes
#BetheChangeYouWantintheWorld
Langston Hughes
#PoeticTruth
#LangstonHughes
#BetheChangeYouWantintheWorld
August 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Goodness becomes grandeur/ Surpassing might of kings.
Langston Hughes
#PoeticTruth
#LangstonHughes
#BetheChangeYouWantintheWorld
Langston Hughes
#PoeticTruth
#LangstonHughes
#BetheChangeYouWantintheWorld
Talk about legacies! A poet using her art to amplify the art, life, and message of another artist confirming her "magnitude and bond" to him and the rest of us, calling us to do the same with one another. Let us hear and internalize this call #PoemADayJuly
July 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Talk about legacies! A poet using her art to amplify the art, life, and message of another artist confirming her "magnitude and bond" to him and the rest of us, calling us to do the same with one another. Let us hear and internalize this call #PoemADayJuly
A great poem! For me, this poem details how my brain & emotions work can hype up difficult times& negativity, my hope & idealism to make it better (dog), ultimately trying to find a middle ground to exist so the "But sometimes" of "hope and history rhyme" can occur. Apologies to Heaney #PoemADayJuly
July 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A great poem! For me, this poem details how my brain & emotions work can hype up difficult times& negativity, my hope & idealism to make it better (dog), ultimately trying to find a middle ground to exist so the "But sometimes" of "hope and history rhyme" can occur. Apologies to Heaney #PoemADayJuly
The infinity symbol materialized in my mind while reading this poem. Looking up the symbolism of "peach" learning that in Chinese culture it means "longevity and immortality." @thevogelman.bsky.social posits weaving as essential to this poem. Yes, to infinity and beyond! #PoemADayJuly
July 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The infinity symbol materialized in my mind while reading this poem. Looking up the symbolism of "peach" learning that in Chinese culture it means "longevity and immortality." @thevogelman.bsky.social posits weaving as essential to this poem. Yes, to infinity and beyond! #PoemADayJuly
The challenge of writing a choose-your-own adventure or Pachinko-like poem was a journey which exposed my ambiguity about my career, the different ways depending upon the day,the memory, the topic I think about what I accomplished. #PoemADayJuly
July 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The challenge of writing a choose-your-own adventure or Pachinko-like poem was a journey which exposed my ambiguity about my career, the different ways depending upon the day,the memory, the topic I think about what I accomplished. #PoemADayJuly
Oh, I love the comparison to Breugel's The Way to Cavalry! What a great lesson to use the poem in conversation w/ the painting--so many things to discuss about authorial choices along w/ similarities and differences. Source for pic: www.artinsociety.com/all-life-is-... #PoemADayJuly
July 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Oh, I love the comparison to Breugel's The Way to Cavalry! What a great lesson to use the poem in conversation w/ the painting--so many things to discuss about authorial choices along w/ similarities and differences. Source for pic: www.artinsociety.com/all-life-is-... #PoemADayJuly
1/2 I first read Milosz's poetry in a collection of poetry edited by Carolyn Forche: Against Forgetting Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (1993). This collection takes impulse from Bertolt Brecht who wrote, "In these dark times, will there also be singing?/ Yes, there will be #PoemADayJuly
July 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
1/2 I first read Milosz's poetry in a collection of poetry edited by Carolyn Forche: Against Forgetting Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness (1993). This collection takes impulse from Bertolt Brecht who wrote, "In these dark times, will there also be singing?/ Yes, there will be #PoemADayJuly
What a great connection--I can see and hear it: "Who said Ummmmmmm."
July 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
What a great connection--I can see and hear it: "Who said Ummmmmmm."
Reminded me of this poem which also modernizes and humanizes God but with a very different tone and conclusion. #PoemADayJuly
July 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Reminded me of this poem which also modernizes and humanizes God but with a very different tone and conclusion. #PoemADayJuly
Your annotated comments reminded me of this poem. #PoemADayJuly
July 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Your annotated comments reminded me of this poem. #PoemADayJuly
Reading a New-to-me poem is a lot like trying to cross a bridge--hoping to get it; the journey to appreciate the beauty and meaning,and the fear as a reader/teacher that "a series of signs said/ help was there [in the poem], but not for me." #PoemADayJuly
July 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reading a New-to-me poem is a lot like trying to cross a bridge--hoping to get it; the journey to appreciate the beauty and meaning,and the fear as a reader/teacher that "a series of signs said/ help was there [in the poem], but not for me." #PoemADayJuly
This makes me reflect on how the horror genre has been used to capture attention and convey important messages. I am thinking George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017). And The Crucible connection as noted by @thevogelman.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This makes me reflect on how the horror genre has been used to capture attention and convey important messages. I am thinking George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017). And The Crucible connection as noted by @thevogelman.bsky.social
I would post for others to read, putting up three or four a week through the first semester. I returned them by the end of the year providing a closure to the school year. Good conversations. Students saw me taking risks like they did and reflecting upon the year. Here's are a few of mine.
July 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I would post for others to read, putting up three or four a week through the first semester. I returned them by the end of the year providing a closure to the school year. Good conversations. Students saw me taking risks like they did and reflecting upon the year. Here's are a few of mine.
His use of the colon in this poem really supports the duality in his life, his thinking, and his art which contain contrasts, which move back & forth, which abut one another to make who he is and his art. He even "Remixe[s]" a Sontag comment, making it his own. #PoemADayJuly
July 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
His use of the colon in this poem really supports the duality in his life, his thinking, and his art which contain contrasts, which move back & forth, which abut one another to make who he is and his art. He even "Remixe[s]" a Sontag comment, making it his own. #PoemADayJuly
The color purple can mean many things & I can see the speaker helping the daughter through her understanding and experiences with each of them via the promise in the last stanza. As a parent, it's certainly a promise to which I strive. #PoemADayJuly
July 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The color purple can mean many things & I can see the speaker helping the daughter through her understanding and experiences with each of them via the promise in the last stanza. As a parent, it's certainly a promise to which I strive. #PoemADayJuly
Okay, a bit rusty with grammar, but here's what I believe I see(please correct if I am wrong). The pattern intensifies what is happening or being understood, until the last stanza which is far shorter than the first, yet just as complex in experience. #PoemADayJuly
July 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Okay, a bit rusty with grammar, but here's what I believe I see(please correct if I am wrong). The pattern intensifies what is happening or being understood, until the last stanza which is far shorter than the first, yet just as complex in experience. #PoemADayJuly
2/2 I captured her statement from the audio of her reading the poem @Poets.org which along w/my musings led me to considering Romanticism. #PoemADayJuly
July 7, 2025 at 6:09 PM
2/2 I captured her statement from the audio of her reading the poem @Poets.org which along w/my musings led me to considering Romanticism. #PoemADayJuly
1/3 Oscillation and vacillation-- I think the personal lines contrast w/others showing his inability to grasp the experience as a whole. It's too much. His mind zooms in and out--past & future, old & new, abstract & concrete, memories & actions, short & long moments. Thus could #PoemADayJuly
July 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
1/3 Oscillation and vacillation-- I think the personal lines contrast w/others showing his inability to grasp the experience as a whole. It's too much. His mind zooms in and out--past & future, old & new, abstract & concrete, memories & actions, short & long moments. Thus could #PoemADayJuly
Not able to march today but with all in spirit.
June 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Not able to march today but with all in spirit.