"Heard"
Something about
Feeling heard
Makes the soul sing
Makes us feel
Like we matter
In the world.
Softly closing the door on a long day
She greets me.
“Well?” she asks.
I nod
And feel my eyes shine.
“I felt heard today,” I say.
Writing. Literacy. Music.
A trifecta.
She smiles.
Crawling into bed late,
I thank the cloud
the one that’s been holding me.
Sleep now needed,
my smiling soul
drifts off.
to sleep.
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Author: Lanny Ball
For more than 29 years, Lanny has taught, coached, presented, staff developed, and consulted within the exciting and enigmatic world of literacy. With unyielding passion and belief in the possibility of workshop teaching, Lanny has worked to support students, teachers, and school administrators around the country in outgrowing themselves as both writers and readers. Working first as a classroom teacher, then as a coach and TCRWP Staff Developer, Lanny is now a literacy specialist, working and living in the great state of Connecticut. Outside of literacy, he enjoys raising his three ambitious young daughters with his wife, and playing the piano. Find him on this blog, as well as on Twitter @LannyBall. Lanny is also a former co-author of a blog dedicated to supporting writing teachers and coaches that maintain classroom writing workshops, twowritingteachers.org.
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LANNY BALL, Literacy Specialist 
What a beautiful poem. Indeed, “something about feeling heard makes the soul sing”…I will think about this poem for a while
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Beautiful poem! It feels great to feel heard.
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Your poem rings of truth. For me, one of the amazing things about the SOL challenge is that I have felt heard, rather than judged, for my thoughts. The community is wonderfully supportive!
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Your poem gave me a smile of contentment. How wonderful to look back on a day and notice the moments of being present and having others acknowledge that presence, your contributions, your needs.
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Such a beautiful poem. Your choice of words and structure carries the thought and mood well.
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This poem is perfection, both in its message and its style/word choice. Sometimes being heard is all we truly need to feel, even if it isn’t as often as we hoped.
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Loved it! I just love poetry. This was delightful. What a wonderful feeling it is as a teacher to be heard!!
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Lovely words put together. Seems like it was a joyous day and a well-deserved rest.
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How amazing to be heard. I plan on taking this message back to work tomorrow when I greet my 28 students, and I will do my best to make sure “they are all heard”.
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