Creative Poetry for February

[Tywanna Burton <DEMS241@UABDPO.BITNET>]

Greetings, Elementary School Media Specialists!  I am posting some
creative poetry you may want to share with your teachers.
We have been learning poetry and writing poetry all year.  Instead of
keeping a poem in our pocket, we are keeping them in our heads.  So far,
we have learned "Talking", "Rope Rhymes", "Things", "Indian children",
"Homework, Oh Homework", "When Tillie Ate the Chili", and at the present
time we are working on "I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud".  I'm sending some
of our latest original poems about Washington and Lincoln.
Oh My Dear Washington
Oh my dear Washington
Why did you cut that tree?
For this your father put you
across his knee.
The story has been told by me
I simply can't see
Why he cut down that tree
by Brittany
  George Washington
George Washington was
our President,
But he isn't any more,
He always had a good score.
He chopped down a cherry tree.
And he never told a lie,
Now we celebrate his
birthday be eating
cherry pie.  By Neely
   Lincoln
Lincoln, Lincoln, I've been wanting to know
What have you done?
I freed the slaves and saved all their days.
So they can go their separate ways.
There are no feelings of woe.
Their old life was no fun.   by Wesley
     Lincoln
Lincoln freed the slaves
from the darkness of the
caves.
To the lightness and
the brightness. Even
thought Lincoln is dead
he is still in my head.  by Ashley
Posted by Tywanna Burton
School Media Specialist Vestavia Hills Elementary West
1965 Merryvale Rd.  Birmingham, AL  35216
DEMS241@UABDPO.DPO.UAB.EDU