Among the detritus that came home at the end of the school year, I found M’s poetry notebook. They covered cinquains, rhyming couplets and odes.
It is a brave teacher, I think, who is willing to venture into Ode territory with a class of grade 2/3/4’s.
“I like M’s poetry,” said her teacher at one interview. “It always makes sense“. So it does… mostly:
An Ode to Popcorn (By M.K., grade 4)
O popcorn how wonderful you are
Your crunch and saltiness make a delcicious snack
I love to eat you riding in the car.
I even like you when your burnt and black.I can put flavours on you.
I love the watermelon flavour
And sometimes, in mysterys, you’re a clue.
The popcorn, yellow and crisp, I savor.
(I left the original spellings intact. I wouldn’t want to mess with anyone’s artistic decisions. 😉 )