POEMS

ALPHABET POEM

• Apple, banana, carrot, dragon fruit, enchilada, fig, grapes, ham, ice cream, jalapeño, kumquat, lemon, mustard, Nutella, octopus, prune, quinoa, raspberry, sushi, taco, umeboshi, vegetables, watermelon, Xmas cookies, yam, zucchini.

SYLLABLE POEM - FOOD

• Food
• It's great
• Everyone
• Needs food to live
• Chocolate, sweets, and
• Much, much more you
• Love to eat
• Until your
• Bored!

THE CINQUAIN - DOGS

• Dogs
• Cute, messy
• Hyper, playful, jumpy
• They can be annoying
• Dogs

PARODIES - BLINKY, BLINKY, LITTLE LIGHT

• Blinky, blinky little light,
• How I stare at you at night,
• On the wall of my room,
• I love how you're shaped like a moon,
• Blinky, blinky little light,
• How I stare at you at night!

LIMERICK - THE CAT AND DOG

• There once was a cat and dog,
• Who thought they could ride a log,
• But when they tried,
• They almost died,
• And they they found a frog.

RHYMING POEM - SPACE

• As I shoot off to space,
• My husband paced,
• And my daughter cried with sadness,
• We landed on the moon,
• Thought too soon,
• And saw a flying monkey,
• He laid an egg,
• Broke a leg,
• And sat there as he died,

RHYMING - PART TWO

• Then we saw a cat-cow thing
• That came from a Saturn ring,
• When it attacked us,
• We ran very far,
• When I was hit by a car,
• To realize it was only a dream.

CLERIHEW - MRS. UNSWORTH

• Mrs. Unsworth
• Is a very funny lady,
• Her first name is Caroline,
• Her last is not McGrady.

RHYMING POEM - HOMEWORK

• "Due tomorrow!" the teacher says,
• "Oh don't worry, it'll be a whizz!"
• Then we groaned and left the class,
• We had to get it done to pass!
• As I walk on home,
• I heard a ring come from my phone,
• My friend said, "hey come over for a bit!"
• But I said, "Can't, I have to admit,"
• "My teacher is mean and won't let us have fun!"
• But face it, I'm not the only one!

A RECIPE FOR DISASTER

• A bowl full of trouble,
• A dash of danger,
• 2 cups of chaos,
• 3 cups of anger,
• Mix it well, add a frown,
• Throw it in a pan,
• Toss it in the oven,
• Bake at 400 until it browns.

RHYMING POEM - #2 - HAIR

• When I cut my hair,
• It went flying everywhere,
• When I left,
• I got in the car,
• Home seemed so far,
• When we arrived,
• I went to bed,
• But suddenly whacked my head,
• I opened my eyes,
• And my cat was on top of me,
• I screamed, "Just leave me be!"

RHYMING POEM - #2 - HAIR PART 2

• I screamed, "Just leave me be!"

FREE VERSE - MY WORLD

• If the world could be how I want,
• There would be candy and gummy bears,
• No hatred, just fun!
• Free Netflix no school!
• My favourite animals just wandering around,
• My pets, previous pets, loved ones,
• Back on earth, to live once again,
• All animals are are, or once were,
• My dream world would be perfect.

TANKA

• Inside the forest,
• There are glorious creatures,
• People destroy them,
• Pollution kills animals,
• But they repopulate.

ONE SENRYU

• Food is delicious,
• Everyone must eat to live,
• Food is everywhere.

HAIKU - NATURE

• When the waters warm,
• And the fish are jumping,
• That's when it's spring.

LIMERICK - LARRY

• There once was a man named Larry,
• Who though he was very hairy,
• But when he checked,
• He saw only a spect,
• And cried as he ate a berry.

DIAMTE - CATS AND DOGS

• Cats
• Fluffy, cute
• Playful, cuddly, sleepy,
• Hyper, running, barking,
• Funny, cute,
• Dogs.

SYLLABLE - GIRLS AND THEIR HAIR

• Hair,
• Stuff that
• Grows on your
• Head. Girls style it,
• Girls play with it, but
• Boys don't care, just
• Comb it and
• Head to
• School.

CINQUAIN - POEMS

• Poems
• Are hard, and quite
• Tough to write, but i
• Can do it, no matter how hard,
• Just try.

PARODY - THE TINY LITTLE TURTLE

• The tiny little turtle,
• Was washed onto the sand,
• Up came the tide which dragged him off the land,
• Down went the tide and the turtle was now safe,
• The tiny little turtle was on the shore again.

ALPHABET - GYMNASTICS

• Aerial, back handspring, cartwheel, dive roll, elbow stand, forward roll, giant, handstand, inverted cross, jete, Kip, layout step out, mount, needle, tzukahara, under swing, Valdez, whip back, yerchenko, zero.

DEFINITION - SMILE

• What is your smile? You wear it when your happy, but lose it when your sad. It's yours, one of the few things nobody can take away from you.

ACROSTIC - GIRL

• Gorgeous
• Into clothes
• Run into things a lot
• Like huge shirts

CONCRETE/VISUAL - FISH

CLERIHEW - EMILY

• Emily Kurbis,
• Is a girl who loves pets,
• She's kinda weird,
• And does lots of pirouettes.