Owen, along with his classmates, was tasked with writing some poetry for school. They were given the parametres of a variety of poetic formats and asked to write they felt. I was immensely proud of Owen’s poetry, and with his permission am posting some of it here:
Rhyming Couplet:
The moon is big, the moon is white
O my gosh what a sight!
Quatrain:
Chocolate milk how delicious
I would drink it if it came from a pit
Slurping, glurping yum in my tum
Be sure robbers don’t steal it
Acrostic:
Green and soft
Read lovely books on it
Awesome to play in
Sensational to have pic-nics in
Super easy to pick
Haikus:
-Storks-
Slender and skinny
Flying through the air, zooming
Gliding down so fast
-Beetles-
Black and glittery
Creeping slowly up your shirt
Flipping over grass
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Icky, sticky, muck
Eats everything in its sight
It’s a… yumtracky!
-Rabbits-
Fur so soft and smooth
Hops as high as pogo sticks
Sniffing…everything!
Freeverse:
Lights-up with a snap!
Flick, it’s on
like a little man glowing
a lightbulb is so bright
Once there was a ponytail
who ate a pumpkin
… and then …
the wind started to blow
it punched him around …
sobldick – suckbird
he was a duck!
Cinquain:
Trains
pickup, get off
rumbling, stopping, refilling
turning on the light
locomotive
Picture Poetry:
X-boxes
boom-boxes
all you can think of,
giving you the news,
giving you the weather, music thumps
loud from in-side the speakers like
a rampaging elephant.
Poetic Crytogram:
Grass
as high
as an
elephant’s
eye
