Our Favorite Poems
Choose one of your favorite poems to share in our blog. It can be a poem that you wrote, or a poem that you love to read. Write why you like the poem and what emotion the poem evokes in you. Comment on the poet’s use of poetry devices. Does the poet use repitition, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration or onomatopoeia in the poem? Do you see any figurative language such as similes and metaphors or does it evoke emotion? What do you feel when you read it? Write what you would like to try using in your own poems that the author has used to create the images in his/her poem, or write about any other literary devices you would like to try.
Take your time and think about the poem you choose. Be sure to reread and edit your comments.
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I love this poem by Shel Silverstein because it reflects on what we have been talking about so often in class this year. To me the poem is focusing on peace and how much more wonderful peace is than war. And also how much better our world can be if we join hands, hug each other and work together instead of pulling away from each other and fighting one another.
Silverstein uses several poetry devices in this poem. He uses ryhming words at the end of many of the lines, like hugs, tugs and rugs, and also grins and wins. In addition he uses repetition of the words “And everyone” and he uses “everyone” two more times by itself in the poem.
I feel a warm, loving emotion when I read this poem. It makes me smile and creates a picture in my mind of people, including myself, laughing and giggling and smiling and tickling each other. It makes me happy!
This is my best poem that I have written because I got a lot of good feed back when I showed and read it to some people( like my parents).
Iceberg
I am an iceberg
I live at Antarctica
I don’t feel cold because I’m the ice and cold
Splash
Splash
There goes my cousin to the ocean
Splash
Splash
There goes my sister
Splash
Splash
I’m going to hug you ocean
I made a poem:
Heart
What is a heart?
I don’t even know
what a heart is.
Is a heart
the thing
That pumps
Your blood?
Or is a heart
The thing
That makes
You feel something?
Anger or hate,
Sad and happy.
Are those
Your heart’s feelings?
Arteries and veins,
Atriums and ventricles.
Or are those
the parts of heart?
I liked this poem even though it’s my own poem.
I like this poem because it has a repetition such as ‘are those’ and ‘is heart is’.
And I like the ‘anger or hate, sad and happy’ part.
Because it reminded me of a movie ‘Kingdom Hearts’ and it’s telling that there’s light in our hearts.
It’s a fantasy movie but I like it.
How do you think of my poem?
I like Kirre’s poem because she makes me image of skating in the Antartica and she isn’t cold because she is god of cold. Isn’t that funny?
love that dog
by. jack
Love that dog,
like a bird loves to fly
i said love that dog
like a bird loves to fly
love to call him in morning
love to call him
“hey there,Sky!”
this is a really good poem i liked a lot and i wish you guys liked too.
This is my best poem for me.
SHARING
by Shel Silverstein
I’ll share your toys,
I’ll share your money,
I’ll share yourtoast.
I’ll share honry,
I’ll share your milk
And your cookies too
The hard part’s sharing mine with you.
This is my favorite poem this poem is from a author name Aice Schertile. The book is called “The Lucky Thing.” I wish you enjoy it.
Showing the wind
On top of the barn,
against the blue sky,
a flat black bird with a hollow eye,
metal wings and iron beak,
clings to an arrow.a rusty squeak.
is the roosters crow
he points the way
for the wind to go.
North East West South
squeak…
he turns with an open mouth
squeak…
he turns away with a rusty wail
crowing the way
to gust or gale
North South East West
showing the wind
witch way is best
to blow.
Did you like the poem? I chose this poem because I can just see what it looks like.
Wow, what great poems!
It’s so exciting to read both the original poems and the ones by more well known poets. Anisa, I loved your poem about the heart! What a great way to get the reader thinking about different views of the heart. And your explanation of the poetry devices you used and why you used them was super too.
Kirre, your original poem is very nice! I feel cold chills running up my spine when I read it! Be sure to go back and tell us about it and share the poetry devices you used to send your message to us, the readers.
Lau, Love That Dog is such a wonderful poem! I can’t wait to read about why you chose it for the blog.
Kei Won, the poem you included sure made me laugh! I had to read it two times to really understand it, and now I’m thinking that it has a deeper message for us, Maybe the message is “Don’t be selfish.” What do you think?
Hiro, the poem you chose is really cool too. It sure creates an image in my mind. What peotry devices is the poet using? What do you think of the poem? What made you choose that one? I can’t wait to read your answers!
Oh, I almost forgot. I want to share my poem Cat Fight.
Last week I decided that I wanted to try using the poetry device, Onomatopoeia. Here it is!
Cat Fight
by Ms. Mongno
Yeow!
Hissss….Growl!
Cat Fight!
Look Out!
Sweet Sock scoots.
Lover Lou leaps
claws extended.
Shoooo! Scat!
I scream, chasing away the invader.
Out cat! Shoo! Scat!
Go home!
Peace returns to the garden.
I also tried using alliteration in this poem. Can you find it?
This is my favorite poem.
It’s title is SMART. And it’s by Shel Silverstein
SMART
My dad gave me one dollar bill
‘Cause I’m his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
‘Cause two is mroe than one!
And then I took the quarters
And traded them to Lou
For three dimes-I guess he don’t know
that three is mroe than two!
Just them, along came old blind Bates
And just ’cause he can’t see
He gave me four nickels for my three dimes,
And four is more than three!
And I took the nickels to Hiram Coombs
Down at the seed-feed store,
and the fool gave me five pennies for them,
And five is more than four!
And then I went and showed my dad,
and he go red in the cheeks
And closed his eyes and shook his head-
Too proud of me to speak!
At this poem I could find a repitition. Like ____ is more than ____! And also I could imagin his father’s face.
Also in this poem, I could know the main charactor’s personality. And I’m sure that this poem have a funny emotion!
And later I want to try to a write funny but true poem like Shel Sliverstein.
I also liked everyone’s poem. Anisa’s was really creative poem, because she sees heart from two different ways. Kirre’s poem was really cool, because of onomatopoeia and repitition.
The poem is ‘Tight Hat’ by Shel Silverstein.
I tried to tip my hat to Miss McGaffry,
I never should have put it on so tight,
‘Cause it wouldn’t come off my head
And my neck got stretched instead.
That’s what you get for tryin’
to be polite.
I like this poem because it’s funny. Poet uses simple words, short lines and rhymes in the poem. It evokes my funny feeling. This poem doesn’t have repitition, rhythm and also onomatopoeia. If I will write a peom, I will write about funny poem. My technique will be repetition and rhym. I think you should read peoms that are written by Shel Silverstein.
This is my favorite poem that I wrote (maybe it’s disgusting…)
Run!!
Run! Run! I’m gonna be late!
Run! Run! I’m almost there!
Run! Run! Go up the stairs!
Run! Run! There’s the room!
Now open the door and do something and… flash the toilet!
I like this poem because I think it’s kind of funny…
And I used some repitition.
Do you think this poem is funny or too disgusting…?
This is My Poem
World Changer
By Seok Weon
World Changers are gifts from God.
Fighting against enemies.
Leading the world by peace and positive ways.
Giving courage to others.
First world changers weren’t special.
They were normal people.
But when they felt the world was crazy,
They became world changers.
War is world pain and our pain.
War is our troublemaker of peace.
But someday we can stop war.
We can be World Changers.
I like this poem and I hope everyone enjoyed this poem.
This is my poem from Alvin Scultz:
Crybaby,
Cry baby
Wipe your little eye
Go tell your mommy
To give you a piece of pie
Baby,
Baby
Stuck her toe
All the way
To Mexico
When you get there
Cut your hair
And don’t forget
Your underwear
I like this poem because it made me laugh when they said “Stuck her toe.”
I want to try writing ryming, funny poems.
I like the poem share because it is fun and gives me a image of sharing my friends popcorn, toys and all other stuffs but I felt fun when there was the hardest part is sharing mine. And it also gives me a music.
I like anisa’s poem because it has a music and it has a repeating words.
I chose this poem because I got good feedback when I read it to my parents. I like it very much beacause it almoust relates to Global Warming because some where in Antarctica the iceberks are falling to the sea. I hope you’ll like it. What do you think about my poem?
I love Shel Silverstein’s poems but I want to share my poem today.My poem is called “I can’t go to school today”(It’s inspired by Shel Silverstein)
I can’t go to school today
By Cheryl
I cough
Sneeze
Gasp
Choke
It might be an instamatic flu.
My face is Green
Blue
Purple
All mixed up
Don’t you think I look sick??
My brain is small as an ant
My ears are closed
My fingers are cut
My legs are—–
…WHAT?
What did you say??
Did you say today is
A HOLIDAY??
See ya!
I’m going out to
PLAY!!!
My Comment:
I liked this poem because it tells us this kid really doesn’t want to go to school. This poem has strong emotions too! I think this poem have some rhymes in it.
Like Flu& Blue!
I really like this POEM!!
How do you think about my poem??
Oh!
And I liked Anisa’s poem because it tells you about the heart.Also it tells the reader about her feelings too.
So IT’S A GOOD POEM!!
HIGH-FIVE Anisa!!(^-^)**(^-^)
I even liked Patty’s poem because there’s alot of repitition in it. And it’s also FUNNY!!
HIGH-FIVE Patty!!(^-^)**(^-^)
I choose hero poem because I was enjoy this poem more than what I wrote. I put some alliteration. Also each stanzas are giving feeling of heroes and how can we be heroes. I hope enjoyed my poem and get some poetry devices.
Patty’s poem is remainding me of the book called ‘Superfudge’. May be some of you people knew this book. In this book there is Peter who think his sister(Toosie) is quiet disgusting, because she put her toes in to her mouth! Even he did the same thing when he was Toosie’s age! Also I like RT’s poem, because it IS bit disgusting, but it is SO funny!
Oh and for addition to the ‘toes’ connection, Toosie is not even 1 yet. May be bit more than 1 but she is very young!
Another poem I really like is called “I Met a Dragon Face to Face” It’s by Jack Prelutsky. Read it and see if you like it too!
I Met a Dragon Face to Face
by Jack Prelutsky
I met a dragon face to face
The year when I was ten,
I took a trip to outer space,
I braved a pirates’s den
I wrestled with a wicked troll,
And fought a great white shark,
I trailed a rabbit down a hole.
I hunted for a snark.
I stowed aboard a submarine,
I opened magic doors,
I traveled in a time machine,
And searched for dinosaurs,
I climbed atop a giant’s head,
I found a pot of gold,
I did all this in books I read
When I was ten years old.
The reason I like this poem so much is that the author has such a great message. I think he is saying that all of us can have fantastic adventures! All we have to do is READ. I think he is saying that books can take us anywhere and teach us about anything we want to know and take us anywhere we want to go. Do you agree that is what he is telling the readers?
Besides having a great message for the reader, Jack Prelutsky used poetry devices in this poem. He rhymes the words at the end of every other line. Because of these rhyming words there is also rhythm in the poem.
I think in my next poem I will try to share an important message with the reader like Jack did in the poem about going on adventures through books.
I’m thinking of writing a poem about how important it is to try really hard at everything you do. I’m not sure yet how it will go. It’s still in the planning stage!
I chose this poem because I thought it would make people laugh when the poet mentioned ”Stuck your toe all the way to Mexico.”It also rhymes and is funny and made me laugh out loud.
This is the best poem to me
horse race
by Kie won
Horses are ready to run
The hot airs comes out from
They’re nose and when the
Starter shoots the gun
Every horses rush out.
The horses are running
Like a bullet and
The horse riders face are
Waveing.
The legs are makeing
Thousands of dust
And when they comes
To the last coast
Every body stands up
And says whaa!
I like this poem because it gives me a great imagry about the horse raceing. And there is some strong words such as bulletor sentence like the legs are makeing a thousands of dust.
PS: I wrote same poem twice because there was some spelling misstakes.
Cheryl, your poem, I Can’t Go To School is so funny. This poem you’d picked reminded me of myself because sometimes I’m sleepy and I don’t want to go to school. But in this case the main character is lying about himself being sick. I think this poem is in my top ten poetry category.
I also like this poem too.
WHO’S TALLER?
By Shel Silverstein
Depends on if the judge is fair,
Depends how high the heel you wear,
Depends on if thet count the hair,
Depends on if they allow the chair.
My comment:
I like this poem because it helps you to create image that the people are looking who’s tall. Also there’s sooo many repetions and I looooove repetions.
It also reminds me of when I was young, I always measured who’s taller. If I think of that right now, it’s soooooooooo funny.
(Sometimes our classmates does it.) (^0^)HAHAHA
We are Doddies
By Jack Prelutsky
We are Doddies, smooth as eggs,
we’ve got bodies on our legs.
We’ve got heads with tuny brains,
we play leapfrog when it rains.
We are doddies, often wet,
We don’t know what we forget.
We are warmest when it’s hot,
we are coldest when it’s not.
We are Doddies, small and round,
we’re not missing when we found.
W e are closest when we’re near,
we’re not there when we are here.
We are Doddies, we don’t mind
if we leave ourselves behind.
So we never make a fuss,
we are Doddies look for us.
I like this poem because it rhymes a lot.
It also has humor like in ‘we’re not missing when we’re found’.
I think that’s it.
What I would try to use alliterations and rhymes.
Anisa, what a fun poem to choose to share! I’m still wondering though, what are Doddies??? I read it 3 times. Are they, frogs, or worms or insects of some kind???
Seok Weon, I love your poem World Changer! To me it reminds us all of how each of us can make a difference in changing our world. And that is so true!
Kie Won, what a cool poem about horses racing! Great imagery! I can see it in my mind with the horses shooting out like bullets and raising so much dust. Well done!
this is the poem that I wrote. I wish you eenjoy it.
Splash
Sploosh
Splash
The water is dripping down
Everybody, listen to the rain singing
Splash
Slosh
Splash
Rain pounding down
Splash
Sploosh
Splash
Thunder crashing down!
Bam!
Slam!
Bam!
The rain is getting soft.
Splash
Splosh
Splash
Kids jumping to the puddles
Splash
Splash
Splash…There is the rainbow
i felt very lonely when I wrote this poem, but I got better at the end of the poem. I want to try writing more metaphors.
my house
by Hiroaki Wakabayashi
My house is brown
I had a frown!
It is tall
Waiting for the call
My mom is out
I know that is a doubt
Listening to the fireworks
Doing my homeworks
It is night already
The clouds are getting crowdy
My house is on 42nd floor
There are 14 door
It is big
Rowing a gig
My dad is out
I know that I have to shout
I wrote this poem because I wanted the readers to khow what I am doing and how does my house look like.
I hope that I can write more Free Verse, and also my Auto bio Poems
My peom title is ’sharing’
Giving things out to other,
what else shall we do?
Caring?
Giving?
Loving?
Friendship that we need
Let’s put them all togehter
Shall we?
I used Repitition, Rhythm and Rhyme in my poem. This is my best poem that I ever wrote. I hope you like this peom because it’s about sharing thing to people.
Walking
with a group of friend
seeing
another girl
with blue faces
who walks by
alone
and everyone
ignoring her
like she’s ivisible
like the wind
which just blow by
but you won’t see it.
I made this poem up by myself.It is a fiction poem,a free verse poem with similies.On the fivth line I said blue face because blue stands for unhappiness and this girl is also sad.Also people don’t have blue faces and it’s different.I made it to show that she is different and can’t fit in.When I said she was ignored and I compared her with the wind because the people treats her as if she is the wind and ignore her like if she is ivisible just like the wind.