*poetry*

*Please enjoy these poems our class has been studying and performing! Feel free to share any of your favorites with us too.

Clickbeetle

Clickbeetle
Clackbeetle
Snapjack black beetle
Glint glitter glare beetle
Pin it in your hair beetle
Tack it to your shawl beetle
Wear it at the ball beetle
Shine shimmer spark beetle
--Glisten in the dark beetle
Listen to it crack beetle
Click beetle
Clack beetle

Mary Ann Hoberman

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with Snow

by Langston Hughes

**SNEAK PEEK -- next week's poem!*
Where Do You Get the Idea for a Poem?


Where Do You Get the Idea for a Poem?
Pippety
Poppety
Peep.
Does it shake you awake?
Do you dream it asleep?
Deep into your tiny head does it creep
And pop from your pen when you are not aware
Or leap from your pocket
Or fall from your hair
Or is it just silently
Suddenly
There?
In a beat
In a breath
In a pause
In a cry
One unblinking eye
That stares from the dark
That is deep in your head
Demanding attention
Until it is written
Until it is rotten
Until it is anything else but forgotten
Until it is read.

--Karla Kuskin