Poetry

This was an in-class assignment. We focused on poetry and had to first write Haikus and then write poems of a different style.  

Haikus:

5 SYLLABLES

7 SYLLABLES

5 SYLLABLES

Haikus – silent and

Dumb, however, not my joy

Write like this? Never

Explosions supreme

Hot fireballs of red death

Big city is no more

Cat stuck in high tree

Chainsaw’s fire is ignited

Both cat and tree down

Galaxy map wrong

Lost. Black hole up ahead there

Shortcut to nowhere

Frog stalking high prey

Sticky tongue fires to catch

Missed! Hits speeding truck

Las Vegas: Gamble city

High stakes poker, can’t lose now

Power outage. Crap…

There once was a teacher named Shane
Whose poetry assignments were insane
The class all rebelled
And said with a yell,
“Not on the threat of pain!”

So Shane resolved to fight back

With an ax he prepared to attack

He slashed them in twain

Then did it again

And warned them to pick up the slack

So the students glumly wrote down

All the poems that they then found

They were somber and morose

While Shane ate his toast

And he published them all over town

There once was a man from Utah

Who thought him the quickest of draw

He threatened another

When they killed his brother

So he shot down him and his pa

Then a lady came into town

A purdiest sight ne’er was found

He courted her for a while

Even made her smile

But shot him when he stopped comin’ round