Today at work (school) we were doing poetry and painting. The kids had to paint a picture of wispy flowers and then in a space beside it write a poem. They're pretty young so I do this cool little trick where they have to write 4 sentences about something and then they swap sentence 1 with sentence 4, and it sounds poetic. I asked the kids to give me a topic to make a demo poem and the first kid I asked said, "Your favourite TV show!"

I was like, "um...my favourite TV show is too scary. I don't think it would make a pretty poem." I paused to try and make it work and then said, Nope. The other teacher in the room was laughing because she knows the types of shows I like (Dexter, SN). So, anyway, we ended up making a poem about 'the tallest trees' which was the next suggestion.

But, just off the top of my head, I'll make an SN one because I would have loved to been able to honour the first request.

Here goes:

(After the switch of line 1 & 4)

When will it end?

Through the pain and tragedy

Following them throughout their lives

These men who would die for each other

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hmm, sounds a little cheesy. I guess it works better with nature poems.

Oh well, I tried. "The Tallest Trees" sounded better!!

Cheers,

Chris