The school year is nearly over. This morning, we went to Noah’s class breakfast, which celebrated the end of 4th grade. While we groggily sipped our coffee and ate our baked goods, we also got to see a lot of Noah’s school work from the past couple of months. His hand-drawn map of Colonial America was great and his science folder was well-organized, but his poetry journal is just fantastic…and absolutely MUST be shared.
So, unedited, the following are a sampling of poems by Noah…
An Alphabet Pyramid
M
Marker
Mellow Marker
Marker Marker Mocks
Mellow Marker Mocks Mythically
A Poem in the style of Langston Hughes
In Time of Frosty Snow
In time of frosty snow
I see a village
covered in frosting
The smell of maple
Syrup steels my nose
In time of frosty snow
I see a chanukia
In a window
And a Christmas
Tree as bright as
The stars in the night sky
A loud steam engine
Roars its way by
The horse drawn sleigh
Rings its way by
And the kids
Come out to
Play.
In the time of frosty snow
I feel
Like an angel
An angel
An angel
Cinquain
Blood
Red and Salty
Always rushing around
Coming out of a big red scrape
Liquid
Poems in the style of William Carlos Williams
Computer
I went on your
computer and
accidentally
erased your
presentation
I knew it was
tomorrow but
I did it anyway
Forgive me
it was fun.
and the
laptop was
so cool.
—————
TJs
The produce section
of
Trader Joe’s is where
food
begs to get out
of their packages
which shine like
A brand new lightbulb
Old Pizza
Pizza with old trout
the smell of rotten sourkraut
my nose is really scrunching up
my face looks like a wrinkled lump
Tomato sauce is starting to ooze
I smell the smell of worn out shoes
it’s even worse than rotten dairy
and highly toxic, so DO NOT CARRY!
