This week Lawndale tried their hand at Blackout poetry. Using Aesop’s fables, song lyrics, and the full text of the national anthem, poets explored how to tear something up and put it back together. In addition to words, they played with images. Here not only will you see innovative erasures, but also rainbows, flowers, and people falling from the sky. To see the poems students created plainly, go to the footnotes.
Ms. Barker
6th Grade
Ms. Barker
8th Grade
- sleep
came upon him
“Spare Me!” “Please let me go”
he was generous and finally let go
a kindness is never wasted
↩︎ - one day
a mocking
Tortoise
was amused
how ridiculous
to take a nap
not always swift
↩︎ - Somewhere over the rainbow blue
Someday I’ll wish upon a star
and wake up where the
tops
↩︎ - can you see through the fight
the bombs proof our flag
yet wave free
seen
the foes in silence
the breeze blows
the beam now shines
O’re the home
where war leaves us
Their blood pollution
the terror of the grave
And in the land
and the home
shall stand
the war with power
when God is
the star in triumph
the land free
↩︎ - over the rainbow
there’s a land
and dreams you dare come true
I’ll wish upon a star
That’s where you’ll find me
Where happy little bluebirds fly ↩︎
