Poetry

Room 12 has been focusing on poetry in our reading and writing this term.  To start out, we read Jacques Prevert's poem "To paint a bird's portrait."  The poetry written below was inspired by his poem.  Keep an eye on this blog (and this week's Wakari newsletter!) in the coming weeks for some of the incredible poems written by our class!

I should like to...
I should like to paint the sound of a graceful snowflake crashing softly on the ground,
To hear the earth spinning round and round till the day it stops,
To see the wonderful pictures on the walls trying to escape their frames,
To gaze at the orange ball that lights up my days.

By Emily

The man who wanted to swim in lava
I should like to swim in lava,
I should like to fly in the core of the earth,
I should like to walk on the sea,
I should like to paint a picture that talks to me,
I should like to walk in the sun without dying.

By Tiaani


I should like to...
I should like to paint the heart of a raindrop falling from the sky,
The scent of an icy ice cube in the freezer,
The pain of a path when someone steps on it,
The feel of victory when my cat gets fed,
The feel of a soft purple pansy in the garden,
The sound of a pizza when it gets eaten,
The pain of a chair when someone sits on it,
The feel of victory of a brave soldier.

By Abbey M.


The Wild Boar
I should like to see the thoughts of the wild boar,
I would like to kill the wild boar with my pinky with one touch,
I would like to eat the wild boar and not die or get very sick,
I would like to know how it felt to get a free piggy-back ride all the way back to the truck,
I would not like to die and taste my own fat sizzling in the frying pan!

By Connor