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
–Untitled–
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
