In honor of Valentine's Day, for last week's class we read love is more thicker than forget by e. e. cummings. Students immediately took notice of the poet's non-use of capital letters and punctuation, and we talked about how leaving those normally important aspects of proper grammar out of the poem helps to focus the reader's attention on the words themselves. As we looked deeper into the poem, additional layers of sound (through alliteration and rhyme), and comparison and contrast (opposites) became more apparent, as did cummings' daring decision to invent certain words for musical qualities and to create new meanings. Students were then asked to write a poem about something they love without using punctuation. Here are some examples.

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George J.

my dog is browner
than chocolate icecream
his eyes shine
brighter than the
sun hes stronger
than wood he
would barker than
other dogs

his love is
stronger than metal
his love lasts
more than life

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Yesenia M.

love is prettier than a diamond ring
love can be anything
it is more sad than goodbye
even if you dont try

love is thicker than a sticker
better than leather
than finding a feather

love is all we need
so dont even plead

powerful as earth
then birds perch

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Eliyah R.

your smile is like a upside down
rainbow your hands are like soft pillows your eyes are as
brown as chocolate chips you are really kind and nice
you are as sweet as candy i love you

love is more than forgive
Daneysi V.

love is more than forgive
to never stop calling
more to love
to not fail with him
in a special day

something to remember in the moon
to be less unlove
to remember in the sunset
to begin more bigger to love
to not be less forgived

to be less to win
to be alive when it happens
to be less kissed
to be less unappreciated

it is most sad to be
cannot love to be
to say something in the sky
to say a word to the
sky

Ms. Fialkowski, 5th Grade

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Carmen C.

love is funner
just like playing
love can come in many ways

you may love food and cloth
thats the different kinda love

you may love your favorite shoes
but thats still love

i love everything
Jose M.

i love the giraffe so tall and bright
his neck reminds of a crane
i love the night so dark and bright
as it shines down the city
it warms my heart as i watch it
love is like gold that cannot be broken
you will never forget the things
you love
i love the sky so blue and bright
as i look up to the sky
i can see everything i love

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Nathalie O.

love to me is my dog lily
her furry fur softer than a sheeps
longer than a ocean
her black eyes twinkle like a star
her wet nose wetter than water
my love for her is deep as a sea
her claws sharper than a knife
her teeth like a porkypines spines

my love for converse
Mayra P.

my love is all converse
they look so converlishous
my two eyes fell in
love with them i feel so
freely with my blue converse
the sky looks so bluely
when I am wearing my
converse it is like pam and
sam with clams if the world
stopped making converse i
would truly die my love for
them is unforgettably i
am truly in love with
them because they are so
so fantabulish

Ms. Rodriguez, 5th Grade

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Jessica G.

i love my dad even though
he can be a pain
i love the way he hugs me
in my winter coat
he will probably ask you
dumb questions but its all
right

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Ramon R.

love is like the sun
who rises every day and how
the flowers blossom every
spring the heart is so brave
in the winter when the
heart is broken it feels
sick and when it is back
to normal it feels new

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Bryan N.

love people
love is not to
hate

love is good
love is great
love things
for people

love is to
have get
and things
love for food

love i for
me video
games

love is good
love is perfect

also love is
in your heart

Mrs. Maxwell, 5th Grade

walking in and out
Gilberto P.

friends walk in to your life when the
world seldomly walks out

love
Diana S.

love can be sunfully
love can be eternally
love can be lighter than the sky
can go up to the sky
to space to heaven

love can be thicker than the
ocean and wetterly than the rain

it can be thinner than a stick
softfully than a feathers

but keep this in mind love
can be what ever you want

love is like a wave
Omar V.

love is more bigger than a wave
sometimes you can surf on it but
you can damage love

on february people say is a lovely
month but love is lovely every month
year or day

love is a wave sometimes its perfect
to surf on it but dont damage love

Mr. Heredia, 5th Grade

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Alexis G.

love is like a flower blooming in the morning
love is like a fish swimming in the sea
love is like a bird flying in the sky
love is like a southern style chicken sandwich
love is like a goal in the world cup
love is like a touchdown in the super bowl
love is like a firecracker exploding on the fourth
of july

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Lucia G.

I ♥ ♥
♥ is sweet
♥ is peaceful
i ♥ ♥
i ♥ my friends
i ♥ my family
i ♥ ♥
♥ rocks
♥ is like a box of chocolates
it is sweet and delicious
who doesnt ♥ ♥

i love sports
Irma H.

i really like soccer and
basketball i learned from my
mom she was athletic like me
thats why i love sports i want
to be an all star player like
her basketball is hard to play
it because there is a lot
of running i love sports so
much

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Francisco V.

i love my mom
she is a great
person she is nicely
with my stuff

she is like an angel
in the sky she
looks like an angel
when she laughs

i love her
more than my
stuff in my
house i hope
i never forget
her

Ms. Montoya, 5th Grade

love is bigger than life
Guadalupe C.

love is bigger than life
itself you see the person
you get butterflies in your
stomach you cant tell its
unnormal you feel unweird
you wonder how is my
hair do i look fine you
see them again and
wonder why

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Erendira H.

ok first thing my name is erendira
then i love baseball because i love it a lot changing
subject then i love my cat tom tom i dont know why
just to let you know love is your soul you cant laugh
you cant cry you also can smile ok now back
to my cat tom tom he is my only cat that i
love i just love him

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Daniel S.

love is more powerful than
king kong love is harder to
steal than it is to steal a
tower 600 million miles tall

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Stephanie S.

love is actually amazing
love is the whole reason dog guide exist
love is a beautiful moment

i love playing volleyball
volleyball is what i love

with love
you cry
you laugh
you hug

love is important
the soul needs love
love inspired many souls
love is actually amazing

Mr. Hughesdon, 5th Grade

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Guadalupe B.

love is hard as steel itself
love is lonely all by itself

loves red and pink
loves nice and sweet

loves like a rock
love is soft

loves deeper than sea
loves higher than can be

loves ugly and mean
loves meaner than mean

loves sweet
loves mean

love is red and pink

love ♥ ♥ ♥

Susan E.

love is
like my
red heart

love is in
my blood

caring and
wearing is
my love

like my
love is
suspicious

and my
fabulous
love

and thats
what i
call
loveoticious

i love my family
Marcella F.

i love my family
my family is like the
wind in my heart i think
that my family is the only
thing i loved so i think that
my family is the best thing
i ever had in my heart
roses are red i think heart is
burned up like the light