Twenty-one Distichs about Children: A Poem by Eli Siegel
I
am pleased to post the poem, "Twenty-one Distichs about Children," by
Eli Siegel. My colleague, Lauren Philips, who is a middle school
teacher in the New York City public school system using the Aesthetic
Realism Teaching Method as the basis of her lessons, says this about the
poem: [It] "expresses the feelings of a child—and also the
meaning of a child—with beautiful respect and depth. I’m grateful for
it, as
both a mother and educator. When my son was younger, these musical
couplets
helped me understand him and also myself, and encouraged me to meet both
his
hopes and my own.".... Here are several of these important distichs: bit.ly/1Qr7IwX
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