My 7-year-old son Bernie has been writing poems for the past year or so. Today he submitted his first poems and tonight he’s attending his second open mic at the 2010 Albany WordFest. I’m so proud of him and I’d like to share some of his work with you.
The first four poems were inspired by a contest being run by Fair Trade Delmar, an advocacy group in a small town near Albany. They’re looking for kids to write poems about chocolate. The prizes will involve chocolate and the winners will also be printed in the town paper. Here’s Bernie’s suite of poems for the contest.
Chocolate Poems
Chocolate
Chocolate chocolate chocolate
Chocolate is all I can say
Dance To The Chocolate
Dance to the music right?
Wrong! Dance to the chocolate
Dance to the chocolate
Dance to the chooooooocolate
Yay!!!
Chocolate Catastrophe
I love chocolate I’d eat
It day and night but
When you find them really
Take a big bite.
You Love It Too
You love chocolate too
Don’t you? Well if not
START LIKING
IT NOW!! Well eat
It now. I guess it’s either
Now or never.
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And here are two more short pieces, the first of which I find both sad and beautiful.
I don’t know why
I don’t know why
I go to school
I don’t know why I eat
I don’t know why I even live
But I do and I know why
I’m me
me me and me
me I love me me you
love me me love me
me play me play me
play games me
I think Foothills Publishing needs to publish another Crane book. I love these!
I’ll let them know!
Nice job ‘B’ I am also proud of you and loved your poems, please keep up the good work. Hugs and kisses…Bop