William Carlos Williams Inspired Poetry

This is Jus t to Say: 

By – Haley Cano

I have eaten

All of your cake

That was in the freezer

Behind the ice-cream

I know it’s your Birthday

And I know you saved it for the party

But it looked so delicious

I couldn’t resist

Forgive me

It was chocolaty

So creamy

It was great

Wheelbarrow Poem: 

By – Ryan Hill

So much depends

On

A chicken

For it create

Little chickens

And eggs

To eat and

Survive

Wheelbarrow Poem: 

By – Isaiah Weatherspoon

So much depends

On me

Cleaning everything

Watching everyone

Why

Does it all

Depend

On me

This is Just to Say: 

By – DJ Ellsworth

I have beaten

You game

It was in

The X-box

And which

You wanted

To beat

Yourself

Forgive me

It was a good

Game

The best of all

Wheelbarrow Poem: 

By – Kyarra Carpenter

So much depends

Upon

A book

Filled with knowledge

Scrambled with words

Wheelbarrow Poem: 

By – Rose Liners

So much depends upon pens

Having to write

Whatever

Whenever

Never to run out

Of ink

If so . . .

Buh-bye

Wheelbarrow Poem: 

By – Remington Froncek

So much depends

Upon

My skateboard

Topped with grip-tape

And trucks and wheels

Underneath

Giving me

Something to do

This is Just to Say: 

By – Marques Hodges

I have dented

Your car’s hood

And also

Broken your windshield

And this may

Cost a ton of cash

But

It’s your fault

Forgive me

That your car jumped

In front of me

On my

Scooter

P.S. I felt

Like a

stuntman

Metaphor Poems

The Flower is the Sun: 

By – Emma Sparks

The flower is the sun

So beautiful, bright, and small

Standing on the ground

Cascading up the wall

It spreads its glistening petals

Stuck from the morning dew

Drawing in the sunlight

Following its every move

The flower is the sun

Let its petals shine

So small and frail

I hope it’s always mine

My Life is a Game of Scrabble: 

By – Jessica Burke

The possibilities of words,

The chosen and the unchosen letters,

What I can make of my choices,

And how the ending plays out.

My life is a game of Scrabble,

The chances to take are endless,

But it always ends,

So, use your life’s risky, chancy, letters.

People are Stars: 

By – Jenny Le

People are stars

Shining bright all the time

Trying to get recognition

Brighter and brighter

Our egos get ahead of us

Using everything to outshine the others

But eventually it’s gone

Our glow fading away

Forming into a black hole of nothing

People are stars

My Life is Football: 

By – Aiden Cook

My life is football

As I walk on the field

I already know the deal is sealed

When I call that play

The guys already know what I’m going to say

But when we are in formation

We all get a sensation

We all want to hit

We all need to sit

And that’s my life of football

Life is an Elephant: 

By – Hannah Ballard

Life is an elephant

Really big and wondrous

All you have to do is explore

Life can open many doors

But if only you try, life

Can pull you down

Yet, at the same time it can

Pull you up

My Life is Softball: 

By – Gabby Thompson

My life is softball

Running on the field

Base by base

4 years of practice

Standing on the plate

Waiting for the ball

1^st base, 2^nd base, 3^rd base

Home.

My life is softball

And I just made a home run.

School Is a Dungeon: 

By – Maddie Anzaldi

School is a dungeon,

All children forced to go,

If you make 1 mistake,

The teachers will blow!

They’ll chain you up,

And send you to the master,

Where you’re then forced

To find your fate of disaster.

Baseball is my Life: 

By – Remington Froncek

Baseball is my life

My knees start to shake when I get up to pitch

I’m covered in sweat

If I mess up I give them a base

The player’s running

The umpire’s screaming

Coaches are giving signs

I wind up and all I hear is . . .

STRIKE!

Haiku/Tanka

Mister Ead Ead: 

By – Jikese Hatchell

I love you my friend
Oh, how bad I miss you friend

Please come home quickly

                                                Please stop bugging me

                                                I just gave you lunch at 12

                                                You don’t need a drink

                                                You ate all my shoes today

                                                Leave me alone doggy Ead!

Haiku/Tanka: 

By – Conor McGuire

Mother nature’s love             

Is sun shining over us            

Hope will come to us   

                                      Mother nature’s love

                                      The stars shining love on us

                                      The stars will shine bright

                                      Our hearts will always combine 

                                         Children will come too

                                      We will live inside shelter

A Day at the Beach: 

By – Katherine Scarborough

The waves cuddle me

The breeze and light follows me

So peaceful and rich

The ending the comes too soon

Personification Poems

Love is a Friend: 

By – Gabby Thompson

Love, he will find you

No matter where you go

You can try to hide

But he is always by your side

He is there in the dark

He is there in your heart

Love he will find you

You can try and leave

But he is up your sleeve

You can never let him go

He knows what you know

Love is a friend

Oh, love is a friend of mine

Sadness is a Friend: 

By – Celine Pandosy

Sadness is the only thing I have

He sticks around, no matter the occasion

He I’d wish he’d leave

But the only stays

He tries to comfort me

Day by day

Sadness tries keeping me company

No matter what I say

Why does he stay

When I stay to “go away”

But hey, sadness is the

Only “friend” I have

He’s the only one who stays with me anyway

I guess I’ll have to deal with SADNESS

In a different way . . .

Words are My Enemy:  

By – Savannah Kramek

Words are my enemy, no matter what I do

They’re taken the wrong way

Mis-heard,

And hurtful

They are always there

You can’t run or hide

The world uses them as emotion

But they are mistaken

It’s actions that have the power

A hard hit get the point across

One tight hug spreads the love

Only actions can have the emotion

Words are the enemy

Remarkable Adventure Poems

Remarkable Adventure: 

By – Corey Rickards

I was eating off the table

With food in the open

Mom was still cooking

With the house smokin’

There were monsters under my feet

I stabbed him with my fork

But then that jerk

Took my pork

I was sleeping in my bed

With my body wide open

I was dead asleep

When all of a sudden, I started chokin’

Then I woke up in fear

I could never go back to sleep

You know why?

Because that monster’s a creep

And that’s why I didn’t turn my home work in

A Remarkable Adventure: 

By – Kara Westmoreland

I was fng on my chores

Dreading cleaning my room

When someone arose at the door

He was very suspicious

A tall skinny man

Who had a newspaper

I immediately ran

Sprinting as fast as I could

I ran and ran

Until I got to Mexico

Come to find out I was banned

I decided to fly to Argentina

To where I would be safe

Hopefully the man wouldn’t recognize me

Because I hid my face

I realized he was gone

So I took a train back home –

To my luck

We somehow ended up in Rome

Please teacher believe me

Please teacher believe me

My homework isn’t done

I really wanted to do it

But I didn’t get home until oneinishing the dishes

Worki

Poems for 2 Voices

Poem for 2 Voices: 

By – Corey Meneiro

I love the dark

                                      I love the light

I love death

                                      I love my life

I want to be buried

Alive

                                      I don’t want to die

I can’t wait for death

To come and end

My life       

                                      I want to stay alive

Death won’t come

Any faster

                                      My life is ending so

                                      I have to say goodbye

Friends: 

By – Gabby Thompson and Elijah Swartzfager

Friends are delicate people

                                                Friends are always equal

Friends like to play

                                                Outside everyday

They’ve got each other’s

Back

                                                If on steps on a tack

                  

                Together We Stand

Poem for 2 Voices:

By – Hannah Norton & Anthony Cook

Sadness is my life

                                      Happiness is what I live for

It makes me feel alive

                                      It makes me laugh and smile

Sadness makes me cry

And eat ice-cream

                                      Happiness makes me want to run

                                      Around the world

Sadness makes me cold

To the soul          

                                      Happiness makes me be worm

                                      To the bone

                   We are different

Summer: 

By – Maddie Anzaldi

The sun has finally

Some out to say hi

                                      So have the bees

                                      Buzzing their way by

The water of the

Beach, is calling my name

                                      In the sand is

                                      Where we’ll play a game

The ice-cream

And volleyball are passed

Around

                                      Under the sea

                                      A seashell is what

                                       I found

                  

                These are the joys

                That summer brings

                And like every

                Year, we’ll

                Cry when it

                Leaves 

Love: 

By – Dilmer Meraz

Love game me happiness

Love broke my heart to pieces

Love gave me life

                                                Love made the darkness

                                                In me

Love is the thing I cherish

                                                Love is the thing that

                                                Makes me cry

Love made me have a family

                                                Love made my home

                                                Empty

I am always filled with

Happiness

                                                I can’t say the same

I love this emotion

                                                I don’t like this emotion

It makes flowers bloom

                                                It makes things die

Poem for 2 Voices:

 By – Makenzie Laureano

I love you           

                             I love you more

When she talks

Flowers bloom    

                             But he’s he still sees

                             Right through

She’s the land

That I live in!

                             He’s the lake that

                             I swim in!

Sometimes I

Can’t tell             

                             But when I take off

                             He can tell

What would I do

If I lost you

                             What would I do if

                             I lost you

I love you

                             I love you too