A mode of writing I am willing to teach

Getting a deeper understanding of poetry ventures into other avenues. Poetry is a mode that I’m more then willing to teach. It can start abstract, but build concretely off that. Students can be on different academic levels, but it seems that when the mode of poetry is involved, every student can have a different beginning, and finish with a different ending. From a teacher’s standpoint, chapter five said teaching poetry takes time and patience. A teacher is obligated to learn about poetry just as much as the students he or she teaches. With poetry, there are many forms, and different lenses to look at it through, therefore perception can continually change, which is a positive note.
To me, the mode of poetry is engaging because it gives voice to students, even in a way a narrative doesn’t. Every student has a voice. Poetry can be a tool for students who haven’t found the voice they’re trying to harmonize. A teacher could take a student’s work and do what chapter five did with Hinton’s the outsiders. Break a student’s formal written work into a poem; this shows students that they have the ability to write in poetry mode. Let’s say a student has trouble writing a formal paper, but can write in poetry mode. You can do the opposite of what the text did with Hinton’s the outsiders. Take a poem about a topic the student choose; basketball, running, lava, etc. You can use that poem and turn it into an introduction paragraph. In the real world poetry will help student find their voice if they haven’t already. The book mentioned that teachers tend to breeze over poetry lessons. When this happens the essence of poetry isn’t captured, and students don’t take poetry as a tool with them when they walk out the door. Let’s say a student has family over, or grows up and has three kids. Would that student rather share a three page expository paper to his family, or a self though poem he or she wrote? It’d probably be the poem. Personally, the text didn’t give enough tools or exercises to teach poetry. Poetry is creative tool that you have to tap into. Some people talk about it, but haven’t even tapped into their own poetry realm. If you haven’t tap into your poetry realm, you sure as heck shouldn’t teach it to anyone else. At this point I’m trying to figure out how to start small to get students writing towards poetry mode, and end up big with have students produce works which reflect on the progress they’ve made in poetry.