This Tuesday for our 7th poetry session at the O-School we embraced our emotions. As a warmup activity students played saw scenes from the movie “Inside Out 2,” the main character Riley is going through puberty and new emotions were moving inside her head, such as Anxiety, Envy, Ennui (Boredom), and Embarrassment. Every emotion wore a specific color and outfit, that reflected their personalities.
Afterwards we read the poem, “Confidence” by former Shoesmith Elementary 6th grader Morgan H. In her poem Morgan uses personification, bringing the emotion of confidence to life by giving it human-like qualities. Confidence wears a blue shirt with white pants and blue shoes. Her hair done, nails done, everything done. If you don’t like her style, that’s not her problem. Students then imagined how their own emotions would appear if they could walk, talk, and behaved just like a human.
Please enjoy reading these poems from students and feel comfortable expressing your emotions.
Group A (Middle School)
Happiness and Boredom
Hyped on your way home from school,
playing a game of rivals with Marvin,
but he wins because he has the most
overpowered weapons.
If we’re bored, we play another game.
The next day I play football on teams.
Love, Loves All
Love is lovely.
Love loves all.
Chocolate is her favorite.
She is very bubbly.
She is never far from
the one she loves.
Secondhand Embarrassment
Ok, so basically
Ummmmmmmmmm
So, when I go home, I play this game
its a game called, Rivals, alright.
So basically,
on the game, I play with my friend.
And I always get this feeling
of secondhand embarrassment.
When he loses to a literal noob, a pot,
a living NPC, a living garbage dump.
A piece of trash, that grew legs
and walked.
Went to play the game with his bare feet,
and won against my friend.
And it really amazes me how you’re
this bad at the game, lose to a literal
piece of trash.
You should get an Oscar for being this bad.
Why is the scene 5-0.
He is standing still, and you can’t aim.
you can’t make contact, have you amass
of persuasion, but physical domain.
That is at least 4ft tall, it makes me feel
do bad I get secondhand embarrassment.
He wants to say that I’m bad, when he’s
the one who can’t aim at a living trash bag.
Group B (Middle School)
Confusion
Confusion wears a disguise.
It slows my brain down.
I saw this emotion when robbers walked
into a pharmacy to steal bottles of detergent,
the first time I witnessed theft.
Confusion has no one, but itself.
Happiness
Being proud and humble.
It makes you outgoing.
It’s a very good feeling and likes
to program games.
You see it on Christmas
or on your birthday.
Yes, he does have a nuclear
family, Aryal and white.
Surprise
Electric hair,
holds a stuffed bear.
Makes you get all excited
over a surprise and teams
up with anxiety to become
impatient.
You see it when it’s your
surprise B-day party.
Suprise only has one friend.
Anxiety.
Depression
Depression is lonely.
They want friends but can’t
put themselves out there.
Depression used to laugh with
friends, but they don’t hang out
with depression anymore.
Over time, Depression found the light,
and became Happiness.
From blues to greens,
to purples to pinks.
Depression became happy again.
Confusion is Here
Warning bells sing that confusion is here.
When you see the pink elephant,
confusion appears.
He is rainbow swirls, surrounding a sphere.
He looks around with wide eyes, asking
everyone, what’s happening.
He probably has friends and family,
but he can’t remember.
If someone would answer a single question,
he would disappear, and take the haze
with him.
My Emotion Happiness
It is happy like a sun,
and is a happy dude.
It likes to give Joy.
You see it when you laugh
or when you smile.
It has family and friends,
including Joy and Courage.
