Elementary School Poems

Introducing....the second half of our PPP-POP! (Yes, PPP-POP = Public Poetry Project - Pass on Poetry, a very alliterative phrase). This week, we will go forth into two (thus far) Champaign elementary schools, Kenwood and Bottenfield, and have third and fourth graders "capture the essence" of the following poems with art. We hope we can eventually display this art in local libraries.

Today I Touched the Buffalobster

Kenn Nesbitt

Today I touched the buffalobster
and the goldfishark,
the eagleopard, ocelotter,
and the weaselark.

I fed the frogorilla
and I felt the reindeerat.
I prodded the piguana
and I scratched the alpacat.

I gazed at the gazellephant.
I gawked at the gooseal.
I caught the cockroachimpanzeebra
and the bumblebeel.

I pet the parroturtle,
and the pelicangaroo.
It's freaky, but it's fun here
at the Mutant Petting Zoo.

Fog

Carl Sandburg

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.