I had fun writing some found poems and some book-spine poems.
I also had fun reading yours so a big THANK YOU for sending them.
This is a MAMMOTH post because there were so MANY p o e m s.
Selwyn House School and Paparoa Street School were so enthusiastic about the book-spine poems and Westmere School cooked up a storm with found poems.
I am sending a copy of The Letterbox Cat to Te Wana class at Paparoa Street School. I loved the way you used the words in a book to take your poems off in a thousand different s u r p r i s i n g directions.
On November 1st, I am posting my last challenges for the year.
Here are some book-spine poems:
Juliet G, 10 years old, Selwyn School
Our story
Jumping cross country fences
Staying clean
Ice skating school
Caring for cats and kittens
Dogs and puppies
Christchurch
The world’s shoulders
Juliet G, 10 years old, Selwyn House School
The Other Side Of Dawn
Petals in the ashes
The white darkness
Dawn
Taking off
A very unusual pursuit
Let me whisper you my story
Sylvie King Age: 11 Year: 6 Selwyn House School
The Cup Of The World
Fly Away Home
By The Monkey’s Tail
Out Of My Mind
The Deadly Dare Mysteries
The 10pm Question
Wonderstruck
Masha P, ten years old, Selwyn House School
The pearl of one foot island
The pearl of one foot island
The colossus rises
The wind in the willows
You’ve got guts
Mao’s last dancer
Treasure hunters
Ruby A, 10 years old, Year 5, Selwyn House School
Through the tiger’s eye
Against the tide
No survivors
Aquarius
A very unusual pursuit
The spook’s apprentice
The gray king
The seeing stone
The power of one
Harriet age 9 year five Selwyn House School
Beware of the Dark!
The dark is rising
Thief Lord
Daughter of the wind
Alone on a wide, wide sea
Chasing Vermeer
The cup of the world
Now
The prisoner
Out of my mind
When friendship followed me home
Laura M Age 10, Selwyn House School
What the raven saw
What the raven saw
Through the tiger’s eye
Jungle hunters
Liar and spy.
Gemma W 10 years old, Year 5, Selwyn House School
Fish
Juggling with Mandarins,
BY THE MONKEY’S TAIL,
if i stay,
call me HOPE,
Forever Rose.
Alice M 10 years old, Y5, Selwyn House School
Here are some found poems:
Students from Te Wana, Paparoa Street School sent me a bunch of fabulous found poems using words random pages in the Lemonade Genie by Adrian Boote.
Exploding!
Spikes lemonade glitter exploded
Lemon yellow ear-rings dangly on silver
Dazzling shoes
By Noah and Toby B Year 3
Weird
Almost all-powerful genie stared
Jiggly lemon yellow eyebrow
Magnificent golden seagull a lump
Old cocker chewing-gum wishes
Could giggled Moonwood eagle
Agree
By Mason and Xavier Year 3
Lookout Tower
Climbing
everything up
to the
Lookout tower
Sssh!
Climbed
By Humnah and Esther Year 4
Birds
Disastrous knocking flapping tripping and
Horribly falling
Ooooh nooo!!
By Charlie and Liam Year 4
Young Man
Young man
Exploded
Carefully
Dazzling
Yellow shoes dangly
Huge suit
Yellow lemon
By Finn and Ciaran Year 4
Genie
Three wishes?
All-powerful genie
Jiggling
Magnificent
By William Year 4
The Lemon Poem
Lemon yellow shoes
Winked and sparkled under the classroom
Big, dangly lemon ear-rings
Yello-rimmed sunglasses
He wore a dazzling lemon yellow shirt
I’m the lemonade genie
By Elsie and Nicholas Year 3-4
Mystery Man
Young man
Winked and sparkled silver glitter
Dazzling lemon yellow lights stuck up in spikes
Yellow-rimmed sunglasses classroom exploded
Who are you?
Call me Keith
By Romey and Drew Year 3-4
The Super Hero
Wishes?
Magnificent
Almighty
All-powerful
Moonwood golden
Eagle
By Lucas and Fin B Year 3-4
Silver Glitter
Huge suit made of silver glitter
Stuck up in spikes
Exploded
A dazzling lemon yellow
Rimmed sunglasses
By Tadhg and Isaac Year 4
Terrifying horribleness poem
Knocking chairs
Spilling disastrous
Tucking horribleness
Terrifying handkerchiefs
Shirt-tails sink in
By William and Sree Year 4
Ranger in a lookout tower
I heard a noise
Ssshh!
A
Stone moving
Jingle
Groaned
What’s what?
By Neve, Milly and Maddie Year 4
The students from LS6 at Westmere have been finding poems in signs around the library and from their library books. Here is a sample:
Found Poem
Another code to crack,
That white hair again!
Ah, let me think…
A violin named Allegro is sparkling,
But which bridge?
(found in False Note by Susannah McFarlane)
By Hannah LS6 Age 9
Break the Glass
Break glass switch
It’s the fire alarm
down
Grab your hat
Discover the world
If you want to succeed.
By Neve LS6 Age 10
I…
I can’t
I won’t
I don’t
I nod
I pray
and
remember.
I stand frozen
I knock
I run.
(found in Girl Underground by Morris Gleitzman)
By Neve LS6 Age 9
Just a Library
Welcome
Keep calm and read Harry Potter
Driven to read
What shall I read next?
Grab your hat and read with the cat!
Look after the books, look after each other.
The more you read the more things you know
the more that you learn the more places you’ll go!
By Henri LS6 Age 10
Christian
Christian replied
Christian Fontaine cradled his chin
Christian turned and stared
Christian frowned
Christian shook his head
Christian said nothing
Christian…
(found in Alice Miranda in Paris by Jacqueline Harvey)
By Lola LS6 Age 9
Inkdeath
Gusty trees, cloudy seas
most disposed, shutters closed.
He read his story thinking,
forests sinking?
Ochre skies before his eyes.
The other day full of dismay.
“A very good morning to you, Bluejay!”
(found in Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke)
By Petra LS6 Age 10
The Library Signs
We are the world, being and becoming.
We are one world
Belonging to hands
Driven to read
Full of surprises
You need to succeed
Discover the world
With a pull of a lead
Walk do not run
We are the hands of the world.
By Petra LS Age 10
Jo’s Library
Welcome, Read
Issues
Grab your hat and read with the cat.
Discover, Graphic novels
A to Z, X to Y
Becoming, being and belonging.
If you want to lead, read.
If you want to succeed, read.
What shall I read next? Hairy Maclary?
Schnitzel von Krum, Bottomly Potts,
Doggy Ditties, Fiction, Non-Fiction.
One world, The more you read
the more things you’ll know, the
more that you’ll learn, the more
places you’ll go!
No food or drinks
Look after each other
Technology’Leveno
Te Reo Maori
Reading is Fabumouse
Fire Alarm
Book marks, Book marks, Book Marks!
Returns, Exit.
By Brooke LS6 Age 10 and Isabelle LS6 Age 10
LS7 have been busy finding poems in the library, the first poem is from the signs, and the others are from library books.
In the Westmere Library
WELCOME!
The more that you read
The more things you’ll know
The more things that you learn
The more places you’ll go!
BELONGING BEING AND BECOMING.
FIRE ACTION NOTICE
DIAL 111
THE NEAREST FIRE EXIT
THE TOP COURT.
Once out, stay out.
Matariki is when we celebrate the Maori new year.
Rules for the library:
USE QUiet voices…
WALK DON’T RUN/
look after the books
Get your books issued
Look after each other.
Bring your books back each week.
And the most important rule of all…
Enjoy the Library!
By Willa LS7Age 11
Cindy and the Prince
She bellowed help! and let me out
The magic fairy heard her shout…
The prince cried NO!
He grabbed her dress.
As Cindy shouted Let me go
the dress ripped from head to toe.
She ran out in her underwear
and slipped on a stair.
Cindy heard thuds of bouncing heads upon the floor
and poked her head around the door…
Poor Cindy’s heart was torn to shreds.
My Prince, she cried, He chops off heads!
(From Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes)
By Ruby LS7 Age 10
Decisions
“Let’s start at the beginning.”
“What will you do then?”
“You really think so?”
“Of course!”
“Promise?”
“Right!”
???????????
(From A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snickett)
By Olive LS 6 Age 9
The Silver Donkey
I’m ten.
This is my sister Coco, her real name is Therese.
Because she has black hair like a poodle’s
Everyone calls her Coco.
A soldier goes to war
with a donkey by his side.
Guns fired, war started
But the donkey saved the soldier.
The silver donkey took him back safely
To Coco and the 10-year-old girl.
They lived together happily.
(From The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett)
By Amelia LS7 Age 9
The Land of Secrets
The home for Dame Know-it-all.
The home for the Enchanter wise-man.
The home for the wizard-tall-hat.
The home for Miss Quiet-mouth.
The home for Witch Know-a-lot.
The home for all secrets of the world.
(From The folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton)
By Sarah LS7 Age 11
The Twits
“I’ve come for a holiday.” said the Roly-Poly bird.
And the Roly-Poly bird watched.
“What’s happened?”
“He’ll stew us alive,” wailed the second one.
“I’ll bite off your toes.”
And everyone including Fred shouted… “HOORAY.”
(From The Twits by Roald Dahl)
By Pippi LS7 Age 10
Kasper Prince of Cats
More and more he just didn’t want to.
I wasn’t frightened, not exactly.
He was just nervous, restless and anxious.
Those children, wretched children, she fumed.
He just skipped down the corridor.
I don’t want to leave my family she said.
Go my dear, go now.
Now I would lay awake at night thinking about it.
So I climbed the stairs to look.
I hadn’t any choice.
It didn’t matter much either way.
(From Kasper Prince of Cats by Michael Morpurgo)
By Honor LS7 Age 10