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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Poems that Rock Our World

Tomaz Salamun:

What is Abomination

Abomination is when you come home
and say heat up the stove
and no one heats up the stove for you
and it's February

be gone be gone

the most global abomination is peas





Crazy! ! ! ! !

Crazy Crazy I used to be crazy!
They put me in big white squishy walls that were cold!
Cold Cold the ocean is cold lobsters live in the ocean Lobsters are crazy!
Crazy Crazy I used to be crazy!
They put me in big white squishy walls that were cold!
Cold Cold the ocean is cold lobsters live in the ocean Lobsters are crazy!
Crazy crazy...I USED to be crazy!

Morgan Orlick




Shame Teacher Shame

Know one teach me poetry
I dont hang down from a tree
Dont want teacher to influence me
Just want to write how i please
Shame Poetry Teacher shame
Shame poetry Teacher Shame

Poetry Teacher can get stuffed
Even though i write real rough
Nobody tell me what to do
I like to write what i choose
Poetry Teachers just make me blue
Always telling me what to do
Shame Poetry Teacher Shame
Shame Poetry Teacher shame

How can i write about lust in the dust
If my Teacher leave me to sit and rust
Hangs me up with power lines
All he talk about is form and design
I want to write about life and dying
Shame poetry Teacher shame
Shame Poetry Teacher shame


Let Teacher teach and let me write
Then i write far into the night
Shame Teacher shame
Shame Teacher shame
Shame Teacher shame
Shame Teacher shame

allan james saywell

1 comment:

Liz said...

AP English

It started off with Lord Chesterfield
And soon our AP class revealed
Do not use trivialize repetitiously
And you can always depend on Max to doze off drowsily.

Illustrations are not to be drawn
But rather to be looked upon.
Analyze poems for tone and theme
Which sometimes made us want to scream.

Allusions of the day brought an uplift,
Soon brought down by lemmings being pushed off cliffs.
As Chrissy laughed, many of us whimpered inside
As Disney’s employees watched them die.

Chelsey argued on every multiple choice,
Expressing to the class the power of her voice.
On Captain Grammar we could always depend
To know the grammar rules that we couldn’t comprehend.

Emiley’s impersonation of an insect
Has turned into a video project.
She will always be a happy fly
If she lives or if she, dies.

Holden Caulfield was depressed.
Gatsby’s parties, awarded best dressed.
For Chalmers a diagnosis was never found.
The Joads left Grandpa dead on the ground.

The Montagues and Capulets settled their feud
Bertha was never in a good mood.
Edna soon drowned herself,
Bilbo Baggins fights like a furry elf.

We heard the two sides of the horrendous beast
Who ate humans for a feast.
We almost fell asleep as we tried to understand.
Why a woman lay dying in a boat on the river, not land.

Ethan Frome attempted suicide
Rochester was burned and almost died.
Lennie accidently killed people and mice.
Abigail and her crew weren’t very nice.
Gregor transformed into a dumb bug.
When the boys were rescued, the man in white just gave a shrug.
Money doesn’t bring happiness – lesson for Pip.
One allusion is a Freudian slip.

Was Mischley pregnant? No one dared to ask.
We soon had to bring in a sub to continue the AP task.
So, we may have gotten a little lost and off track.
But we returned to the routine when Mischley came back.

Now we’re approaching the AP test date,
And on that morning we’ll eat French toast, omelets, and even pancakes.
On the test we’ll get 3s, 4s, even 5s.
Now sit back and laugh as we see if next year’s class can survive.