John's Poetry (2nd grade)

At conferences last week, we enjoyed reading some of the poetry John has been writing in school. I debated whether to share with you his spelling, but for clarity, I have corrected it here. I enjoyed his sense of the unexpected. I expect the Haiku bug displayed by Jeremy and James will come out in this one soon, also.

John chose "Computer" as his favorite; I especially liked "Inside My Heart." Hope you find one to enjoy as well.

Computer

I sit
down
Type
Type
Type
Beep NO!
That's the
self
destruct
button 5,
4, 3, 2, 1
Do you want a
smoothie?
I guess that's not the self-destruct button.

Quest

Sent

out to find

a treasure

Shiny as a diamond

hard

as a rock but

beware for there

are obstacles on 

the way

A Food Fight can be...

A mess

Ouch! That was

A stale piece of

Bread

Fun hey!

That 

Was my banana

Slippery

Inside my heart

Inside my heart lives

One fluffy dog

Two sisters

Three plates of food

Four swimming lakes

Five paint ball games

Six books to read

Seven camping trips

And a world

Full of love

Adapted from Zoe Whitte's poem, "Inside my heart"

New York Biking

Flashing through

The city past 

Buildings, stores, and

All types of 

Things.

People

People

Lots

of poeple

Smash!

I think I'd

Rather bike in the country.

Icicles

Icicles are 

Hanging with

An 

Icy

Grip.

They glitter

In the

Sunshine.

Drip,

Drop,

Drip,

SPLAT!

Shell

A giant

staircase

going 

up to the 

kingdom

Knights standing

guard in the 

palace it's only

a

shell.