junior guests present their work, my kids' poems from a workshop Options

[Guest_Toumai_*]

Hi, everyone

My kids went to a poetry workshop recently and had a fabulous time, hearing poetry, writing their own and making huge pictures (on the back of an old roll of wallpaper) to illustrate one. The event was to raise money for 'Children of Chernobyl'. They came home and asked if their work could be put on the web (since mum spends so much time there) ...


Tornado, by Jason (age 8): a shape poem


  Tornados can go at
        about 1200 miles
                per hour. They
                      surround
                       hurricanes
                      or tidal
                    waves.
              Tornados
            a r e
             swirling
               vortices
                 of wind.
                         They
                             can
                                suck
                                 u p
                               things
                           up to
                         as big
                      as a
                  church.
                     They
                       are very
                               deva-
                                     stating
                                          and can
                                          destroy
                                    whole
                                 forests
                           at a time.





My Guinea Pigs  
by Elizabeth (age 6): a prose poem

Our guinea pigs squeak when they are hungry.
When dad squeaks he frightens them.
They eat hay, salad, apple, carrot, grass, dandelion and guinea pig food.

[Guest_Jox_*]

Jason, Hi,

Wow!

"Tornado" is excellent - poetry and visual form. Brilliant.

I had no idea that tornados and tidal waves were related. Interesting, too.

"Vortices" is a stunning word for an eight year old - not sure I've known it that long.

Many congratulations on your excellent poem... I do hope you write many more. This is so good that your next few may be disappointing - but keep going... we all have good and bad poems - go through any less good ones and emerge to write more of these.

I hope you print this out properly on a sheet of A4 with a good font and put it on a wall somewhere (with your parents' permission I had better say). It's good to know it started on the back of wallpaper - but it deserves better.

I enjoyed it greatly.

James.