One little girl was often asked to think before saying something. And once she answered:" How can I know what I think until I see what I say?"
The girl surely had the making of a poet in her. Because they don't need to get their thoughts down on paper to consider them. Sometimes in "seeing what they say", we find out things we didn't know we knew.
Poetry is seeing the normal with a perceptine eye, creating extraordinary notions from everyday things. It has to be both caught and taught. When students are immersed in it, surrounded by it, they can feel that it's part of their everyday life.
And:
What is this life of, full of care,We have no time to stand and stare.....(W. H.Davies)