Poetry

Friday morning, we were treated with a visit from Word Works.  Tony Zick, Carlina Duan, and Ben Alfaro came to lead a Poetry Workshop with our 1st and 2nd graders.  First, they each took turns reading us poems. Some of the poems they wrote and others were written by children.  The last poem was called "Underneath" by  Jeff Kass.  

Then it was the children's turn.  They were encouraged to try to write their own poem inspired Jeff Kaas's poem.

Here are samples of the children's poems:

Underneath my heart is

A soft

mew of a cat.

Underneath

The mew

of the cat

Is a bird

Flying through

The air.

Underneath

The Bird
Is drawing
The sky
A rainbow
Over
The clouds. 

Underneath

Drawing

Is a swan,

Floating in

The water.

 

By Kaden

Elie

Underneath

My heart is

A book.

Underneath a book,

Is a snake.

Underneath a snake,

Is legos.

By Elie

   

Underneath

My heart

Is a bird

the flapping

wings go

Swish, flap

It gives love

In me.

By Lilith

Underneath

My heart

Is a owl

Flying, swish

Swish.

Underneath

my heart

there is a cat

walking on

leaves, crunch

crunch.

Underneath

My heart

There is

A wolf.

Prowling the

Mountains.

Underneath

My heart

There is a wall.

Waiting for me

To come and paint it.

By Juna