Book Spine Poetry

Students worked in groups to complete these poems and then created a final poem as a class.

A Remarkable Adventure - Based on the poem by Jack Perlutzky

A Remarkable Adventure

By: Alexa Hurlburt

I was in my living room

About to head to bed

Until I got the feeling I was being followed

Ah, it was all in my head

So I laid down, and shut my eyes

Until I heard a noise across my room

My eyes opened suddenly, no sudden movements

This was it, this was my doom

I got up slowly, to see what it was

I grabbed my lamp, ready to fight

The noise getting louder

My mom then walked and turned on the light

I looked where the noise was coming from

It was my homework being torn up by me brother

I was ready to scream at him

But all I got was yelled at by my mother

And that’s why I don’t have my phone for a week

A Remarkable Adventure

By: Allyson Vondran

I was in the park

Our puppy by my side

The trees began to change

With teeth that opened wide

They creaked and croaked

As they slowly stood

Time slowed but they were quick

They groaned about a wooden hood

Then a lady made a steel

Smiled big and bright

Her metal teeth flashing in the night

“Come child I’ll show you wrong and right”

Our puppy barked and howled

Then we ran

The lady followed us

I whacked her with a  pan

The trees were quick

They swallowed the puppy whole

They scared me down an alley

Where they grew two giant moles

Then they became trees once more

So mother that’s why puppy’s gone

I tried to save him

But my mind was in a smog

A Remarkable Adventure

By: Zack Smith

One day I was on a bench

Having juice and applesauce

When a man said to me

“I am now your boss”

He tome away

Put inside a place

Where it was do what you’re told

Or get a smack to the face

It really scared me

Thinking I’ll never see light

I wanted to give up now but then

Someone started a fight

I got an idea

So I snuck out and got away

I check the date and I was there all night

That’s why I don’t have my homework today

Poems for Two Voices

Home

A Poem for Two Voices

By: Isaak Mongubat and Serinity Buchanan

On the walk are

Written words I shouldn’t

Speak

                                    Living

                                                            Around the beautiful

                                                            Flowers that contain a

                                                            Sweet scent

                                    Almost

Not too safe to

Live in

                                    Remarkable

                                                            Sights I’ve never

                                                            Seen before

                                    But it’s alright

                                    Because it’s my home

He’s Gone

A Poem for Two Voices

By: Sydnie Yager and Jessie Seeley

All the memories

                                    Without him

                                                            Remembering some

                                                            Of him

                                    Missing him

At my birthday

Always gone

                                    Wondering

                                    When he’s     

                                    Coming home

                                                            Been

                                                            Two months

                                                            On my own

                                    I love you

                                    Come home

Light

A Poem for Two Voices

By: Trevelle Jones and Isaiah Saunders

I love the light

                                                I wish it would disappear

I’m glad it’s here

                                                I would die if I came near

                                    Sunlight

It fills me with delight

                                                And gives me fright

I’d rather be in the sun

                                                And I prefer the night

I’m going to try with

All my might to get you

To love

                                    Sunlight

Pigs and Elephants

A Poems for Two Voices

By: Dante Belandres and David Rice

I hate pigs

                                                            I hate elephants

                                    I hate you

Pigs are pink 

                                                            Elephants are blue

                                    I hate colors

                                    So do you?

You’re little

                                                            You’re fat

Hey!

                                                            Hey what?!

You’re muddy

                                                            You’re wrinkly

                                    I hate mud

                                    And skin

You do?

                                                            Yup!

You want to be friends?

                                                            Yeah

                                    FRIENDS!

Bird and Worm

A Poem for Two Voices

By: Jay  Miller

Flying high in the air

Looking for prey

                                                            Hiding underground . . .

                                                            Checking to see if the

                                                            Cost is clear

                             What’s that?

I think I see

My dinner

                                                            I think death is

                                                            Approaching

I’m going for the kill

                                                            Gotta crawl back

                                                            Into my hole

I’m gonna make it    

                                                            I can’t make it

Going in for it

                                                            NOOO!!!

                             GULP

That was tasty

                                                            I knew I

                                                            Couldn’t make it

What I Like About You

A Poem for Two Voices

By: Rudy Paisley

                                   What I think

The most                                                        the easiest to

Amazing face                                                            steel from

                                    What I’d do

                                    For you

I’d jump in                                                     I’d do anything

Front of a car                                               to steel

For you                                                           your money

                                    What I’d

                                    Give you

I’d give you                                                    I’ve give you

A million dollars                                            two

                                    I’d love you

                                    For

Ever                                                                1 year

                                    I’d do anything

                                    To keep you

With me                                                         Tricked

Sensations

The Sensations of Winter

By: Cameron England

I sit by the fire

And stare out the window

I watch the snow fall from the sky

The snow stops for once

I stare at the sky hoping for more

These are the sensations of winter

I adore

Hoping for more I step outside

Waiting and waiting only to find

More

I sit on the steps watching

The kids play in the snow

I lay down knowing that’s

The last site I will see

These are the sensations of winter

I adore

The Boys Who Fought the Nazis: Found Poems

The Boys Who Fought the Nazis

Found Poem

By: Dante Belandres

Bombs blowing

Children crying

Fear of dying

July 1914

World War II

Jews Killed

Millions were thrilled

Broken glass

Unemployment

High

More like let’s

All die

Suicide

No capture

Warned

53 million lives

Were taken

Beaten by the

Time WWII was done

Germans Vs. Nazis

Found Poem

By: Albert Aguilar

Dark and terrifying

Hamburg Germany

British bombers looking to destroy

Dark and terrifying

Fear of bombs

Heart pounded

Swallowed vomit

Dark and terrifying

Hitler prejudice against
Jewish

Outlandish beliefs

Dark and terrifying

Hitler destroying Germany

Nazi Germany

Change the course of life

Shadows

Dark and terrifying

The Nazis

Found Poem

By: Casey Stophel

Fear of bombs

Nazi’s – - - Hitler

Power after difficulty

Jewish killed

Speech after speech

Invading

Can’t forget

The games end

Caught

Sentenced to death

Gestapo tortured

Now I must die even though I’ve committed no crime

Final days

After it all

50 million dead

Hitler gone

The Boys Who Fought the Nazis

Found Poem

By: Maiya Johnson

Dark

Terrifying

Destroyed homes

Fear

pounded into the heart

Of Germans as well as the people

Children

Trained to be soldiers

Resisters were

Captured, beaten, killed

Or tortured

Three friends

Criticizing

The war

Helmuth, Karl, Rudi

The boys who fought

The Nazis

I Would Do It Again

Found Poem

By: Tamera Lepore

Now I must die

I have committed no crime

I would do it again

I am not a hero

I would do it again

They were to blame

They fanned the flame

They would be shut down

I would do it again

The games ended

Dark and terrifying

With targets to destroy

I would do it again

Yes, I would do it again

 A Nazi Rally

Found Poem

By: Rudy Paisley

Bombs a short wave

Do you know you’re being lied to

Racially pure

A Nazi rally

German Jews singled out

People, gypsies, gays

Click-clack of boots

A Nazi rally

Anti-Jewish people

Praise Hitler

A Nazi rally

Hitler embraced

A Nazi rally