Eight imaginative girls showed up ready to write for last Sunday’s The Pen that Dreams workshop. One of their several projects was this wonderful group poem about the many definitions of the word “lost.”
I Lost My Mind Just Now
A poem by Ada Cook, Riley Donlon, Anna Kulczycka, Emma Morrison, Lily Robinson, Sydney Scarpulla, Emmaline Welch, and Carlisle Wilson.
I’ve lost so many things it’s hard to remember just one.
I lost my rat, Aurora, outside. I never found her.
When I ran after a lizard (chameleon), I got lost and said, “Where am I?”
When I got lost at the McWane Center, I said to my dad, “You should have told me you were going over there!”
I lost my dad’s phone — while texting — after he said, “Do not lose it.”
Once I lost my dad’s wedding ring. I was a baby.
I’ve lost my mind a whole bunch. Sometimes I act like a person who doesn’t know anything. I ask, “What does disappear mean?”
In math, I get lost a lot looking at something new.
I get lost at gym time at school because there are a lot of stations and they go in a weird order.
I lost my train of thought and had to start all over.
I was about to go canoeing and my dad’s phone knocked out one of my teeth. I ran with my tooth in my hand.
Once at a swim meet, I lost my mind on everything else but the swim.
I got lost in a library. I was looking for movies.
Somebody stole my lawnmower and my friend’s bike.
I lost a tooth — eating a sandwich, I think. (It was bread-related.)
I lost my mom’s camera. It was on the kitchen counter.
I lost my keys in the grocery store.
My cousin lost his brain last Christmas.
I lost my mind just now. Did it go dancing? Did it go dancing with another mind?
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The whole thing is awesome and that last line is genius! Thanks for sharing this…made me happy
I just love this!
I think this is great. I can relate!
Group Perfection!
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