After reading Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo, some students were having a hard time tapping into their creativity and coming up with ideas. So I gave them a second option. Write an ode poem. Students created a quick list of things they love, and objects they use on a regular basis. Then they picked one and wrote a poem talking about how awesome that thing is. Pencils were scratching away as they wrote and here are some of the results. Enjoy this week’s poets!
What Makes the Sun Beautiful
Angela J.
Oh, you shine so bright
making us sweat all over, tanning
us tan all over. Tanning us beautiful
all over your existence is enough to
cook food on the sidewalk, hot and
smoldering to suffocate.
Ode to My Bed
Ayden
My bed the place I go after school
My bed the place I go to sleep
My ned the place I go play games at
My bed the place I go to eat at
My bed the place I go to be in peace
My bed the place I go to be on the phone
My bed the place I go so I can have fun
My bed the place I go to cry
My bed the place I go to think in
My bed the place I go to fly
My bed the place I go to buy stuff
Table Poem
Deon Martin
Everything starts at
the kitchen
the way the rich tasty
pasta goes down into
you body and how
happy you get to
see family from when
you were little
The way ya’ll play
Uno and get into
arguments over who has
Uno and more cards
that’e the stuff we
cherish
