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_Don_*]

Hi Toumai,

Have you thought about a larger family for factory production poetry?

I liked the diminishing point height of characters in the tornado...as far as apparent capability allowed.  One supposes only the Oxford Press would have enough fonts for perfection.  Severe gradual reduction has been done in hardcopy books, and still proves effective.

Jox's cleanup of the guinea pigs' cage is the quality control your forthcoming factory may need.

Cheerful to know your children follow their Mother's interest in poetry.

Don   :pharoah2