The kids have been
learning a little bit about the different types of poetry. We thought we would share a few of the poems
with you:
Cinquains
laundry
cleans clothes
work so hard
hurts your knuckles
bruking -maria
farm
brown dirt
growing cassava leaf
lovely smell of soil
garden -maria
Mango
growing fast
climb it slow
very very very sweet
tree -jacob
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| Our pantry shelf. Peanut butter in the middle, flanked by honey. |
sweet
very sticky
wash your hands
goes with peanutbutter
honey -jacob
monkey
black furry
climbing, running,
playing
funny, weird, ugly
gorilla -naomi
mango
slimy, gooey
falling, splitting
rotting
yummy treat to eat
fruit -naomi
haiku
rain falls from the sky
it trickles down the
driveway
and cools down the air
-maria
limericks
there once was a pikin from
Bo
who was very very so
slow
when he walked through
a crowd
they were very so loud
and it made the pikin
say “go!” -naomi
terse verse
RICE CAKE
small ball -naomi
RICE
eating beating -naomi
LATRINE
shit pit -Joel
acrostic
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| Alagi and Naomi knocking down mangoes. |
Mango
A
Nice
Good treat
On a hot sweaty day -Naomi
Definition poetry
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| Kernels for making palm oil. |
Palm Oil-
a red liquid
that is used in
everything
when it comes to
cooking
-maria
Free verse
Fun
fun is fun fair and
squash
oops, not squash,
square
sorry about the
mistake, I could make
it better, But like I
said, fun is fun
fair and squawk
oops! fair and square -jacob
concrete poetry
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| Mangos slimy get stuck in your teth good frut - Naomi |
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