Books I read this past week:
A bittersweet ending to a wonderful month learning tons of stuff about poetry. I'm sad it's over, but I got great news this morning: I received an honorable mention for my poem
Please Don't Make Me Eat Those Peas AND I randomly won one of the daily prizes! Yay!
There were some really good entries in the contest – check them out
here!
I am now a graduate of the first annual RhyPiBoMo and I will proudly display this here:
Here are the books I read this week:
I love looking at these little squares of awesomeness! It just makes me happy!
I also have a poem to share with you – the poem I entered into the
Golden Quill Poetry Contest. Angie said she had over 40 entries! I'm excited to see the finalists!
Please Don’t Make Me Eat Those Peas
Please don’t make me eat those peas –
they stink and make me gag and wheeze.
I have a strong aversion to
those squishy globes of greenish goo!
I try to feed them to our puppy,
the hamster, and the family guppy.
They try a pea and spit it out –
they hate them, too, without a doubt!
I wish you would respect my wishes–
I promise I will do the dishes
if you don’t force me to consume
that evil, little green legume!
I’ll clean my room and make my bed
and make sure that the pets are fed.
If you love me, I’m beggin’ please,
Please don’t make me eat those peas!
Still plugging away on RhyPiBoMo and learning A LOT! I don't have any poems to post, but I'm almost finished with one that I'm going to enter into the
Golden Quill Poetry Contest. In the meantime, here are the books I've read in the last 2 weeks.
One of the rules of RhyPiBoMo is to read a rhyming picture book every day. Here are the books I read in the fist week.
One week down and 3 to go! Today, we learned about the different quatrains and the different rhyming patterns they can have. Here is one with the ABAB pattern:
Buddy Buddy is a crazy boy!
He jumps on everyone around,
because he can’t contain his joy.
He’s such a crazy, happy hound!
Today, we learned about Haiku and Limericks. Here is a fitting Haiku for today since a tornado touched down about 2 blocks from my house this morning and I didn't even wake up!!!
Tornado
Wind bursts barrel though,
So strong and powerful, then,
Earily quiet.
April Fool
They say don’t write your book in rhyme,
but I still do it all the time.
I don’t set out to do it –
The editors will boo-hoo it!
I guess I’m just a foolish fool
who thinks that’s such a ghoulish rule!
If I can make a kid laugh –
with a rhyming paragraph –
Then a fool, I guess, I’ll be
along with Seuss, and company!
