Category Archives: books

Somehow, I don’t think I’ll be posting a poem next Thursday, because Nik and I will be in Alaska for Rachel’s wedding!  So this is it for a couple weeks! The Sunflowers Mary Oliver Come with me into the field … Continue reading →

Go here to hear this poem read out loud (it is well worth the couple minutes).  The reader is this year’s winner of the Poetry Out Loud competition.  The finals were in DC on Tuesday night. Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden … Continue reading →

Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Well, son, I’ll tell you: Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But … Continue reading →

Like mother, like daughter, I guess!!  (and make sure to read Mom’s poem if you haven’t – it’s the perfect Alaskan summer poem!) Here’s another middle school poem – maybe our last for awhile.  I’m getting tired of them! Haikus … Continue reading →

Katie Kissed Me by Christine Lynn Mahoney Katie kissed me! Yuck, it’s true! My face took on a greenish hue! My knees, like jelly, stared shaking! Then my stomach started quaking! Slobber slithered down my cheek! My consciousness was growing … Continue reading →

I’m on break –  so I’m glad Mom and Zona reminded me about Poetry Thursday! Here’s the next middle school installment… THOUGHTS ON GETTING OUT OF A NICE WARM BED IN AN ICE-COLD HOUSE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM AT … Continue reading →

A continuation of our series, “Poems Even a Middle Schooler Will Like.” Clatter by Joyce Armor If I should list my favorite words, They’d sound a lot like this: Rumble, crash, snort, jangle, thump, Roar, fizzle, splat, moo, hiss. Not … Continue reading →

A continuation of our series, “Poems Even a Middle Schooler Will Like.” Homework, You Stink! by Shel Silverstein Homework, oh homework, I hate you, you stink. I wish I could wash you away in the sink. If only a bomb … Continue reading →

For the next few weeks, you can look forward to a new Poetry Thursday series called, “Poems Even a Middle Schooler Will Like.”  Here’s the first entry: How to Get A Girlfriend by Lenin Salinas First, you have to get … Continue reading →