 Hi. I'm David Gonzalez. In this episode, I'm going to look at poetry. I tell stories and I write poetry. They're similar and they're different, but each one helps me to bring my ideas to life. In this example, I'm going to read part of a poem called I Speak for the Living Earth, and then we'll talk about some ideas that you can use in your own poetry writing. I speak for the living earth. I speak for the vast open spaces, for the north wind on the Wyoming plain, for the shale fields of Kilimanjaro, for the blue ice of the glacier, for the gold blood of the volcano. I speak for the micro-world, for the spores and seeds, the pollen with innermost. I speak for the four-legged, for the laurus and the hound, the leopard and the giraffe. I speak for the rivers, for the swift churning currents, for the gentle mountain spring. I speak for the shifting surface of the planet, for the hot flow of magma, the explosive eruption, the billowing ash, the changes. I speak for the canyons, for what is told in their cliffs, for the sounds of emptiness. I speak for the birds, for the ibis and the crow, the crane and the swallow. I speak for the night, for the eyes that rise, for the dew that falls, for a sightless creature deep in a cave. I speak for the sea, for the crust of salt on a shell, for the infinite horizon. I speak for the unknown, for the unfound, the unborn. I speak for the threatened, for the endangered, for the extinct. I speak for the seasons, for the death of all things, for the birth of all things. And that's an excerpt from my poem, I Speak for the Living Earth. This is a praise poem. Praise means to give thanks and to celebrate something. And it's also a list poem where I list many, many things. It's a praise list poem and that's something that you can do. Maybe there's something that you want to celebrate, something simple like your school or your family or something great like your nation or part of the nature. List all the parts of that experience and then little by little start to make connections, expand, add to it. That's what I did with this poem. Something that you can do as well. Bring your ideas to life through poetry. I think you'll like it.