Mrs' Howards Poetry Coffee House

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Mrs. Howards Poetry Coffee House

• November 19, 2007

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Ingredients of Poets Use

• Find a BIG topic that give you strong feelings
• Find a small object or moment that holds a BIG
  feeling
• Look with a poets eyes
• Make ordinary things seem EXTRAORDINARY

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More Ingredients Poets Use

• Experiment with line breaks
• Reach for precise words
• Add in feelings
• Use patterns
• Stretch out comparisons

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Mom by Lilly chocolate brown hair grass green
eyes shinny smile rose love mom mom mom
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Halloween By Alyssa candy candy yummy
yummy trick or treating ew ew go to a house I
love trick or treating
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music by sam cling clang the xylophone sound
zzzzz the saxophone sound honk honk the drum
sound the guitar sound now now the triangle
sound ting ting the fiute sound toot toot.
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Thunder By will. Boom Boom. a Light in the
sky. Blowing Up homes. when It is night
time Be where For thunder Be where be
where Is over
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Fireworks By Jackson
Light fire Works Up Up Up Like A Rocket
ship In To The Sky A Rain bow
Falls Bake Earth Falls Down Down Down As Little Ar
my men Fall To The Ground
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Dragonfly By Madi Dragonfly like A little star In
the sky. He?s shining Like glitter On the
ocean Floor. Glittering Like a diamond In the
deep blue Sea with wings That you could Whisper
through Glimmering as If it was tons And tons
of Sparkles.
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Halloween By Arika Amit Dwivedi witches
flying waiting for halloween Creepy
cats everywhere Halloween is coming Halloween
is gone creepy crawly spiders coming next year
for HALLOWEEN!
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SPORTS by Conner Hockey score with the
puck celebrate! soccer kick the ball score
a goal! football throw it deep score
a TOUCHDOWN! basketball pass it to him SLAMA
DUNK!
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Dolphins By Corinne Swimming Swimming In
the Sparkling Deep Blue Sea! Down Down Down In
the Sea ! Swimming Away Swim swim Away You
go My friend!
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Spiders By Alex Creepy crawly spider AH AH! One
just bit me Eat one hairY gross What is wrong
with that Spider.
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Branch by Evan a big branch it feel on the car
aaaa the people in the car it stick like gloo
ran and rar
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Months By Matt
January! First time at school. February Leaves com
ing in. March school is ending soon
hurray! April. April fools! Day!
May 3 more years until school is
out. june luckiest year. agust school is allmost
out. September amost Halloween. November thanksgi
veing! December chrismiss
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The moon by Alana bright as as the stars the moon
is coming out tonight .
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Tooth By Ethan I was at school My tooth fell
out I put it under my pillow I got three dollars
and forty seven cents
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bee by Viraj beez beez ouch it
is a bee . kill it I say stop stop ow
ow ouch! ow sting it sting
me. I will get you next time!!
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Rain! By miles like blue Army jets as fast as a
cheetah. making a a world pool for the
giants little Army men firing at each other.
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Pointer by LIZZIE it twist like a ballerina
it points up up up to the blue blue sky
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Sea By jack Splash Splash Splash Swoosh Swoosh Swo
osh Blue! Crash! Boom! Swish! Cold! Sharks! and
dolphins! in the water! wave wave slam! like a
space shuttle crashing!
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My imaginary friend By Daniel I like my
imaginary friend My nice nice friend He
is invisible He sleeps with Me
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School By William family family dont
you want to take me to school wake up I
pack up my stuff beep were at school.
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Dogs By Emily Side to side up and down a round and
round it crawls it eats it plays run run run it t
akes the bone.
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RAINBOWS BY SUMMER rainbows are like the
magical sky I see paint glowing in
the magic sparkly sky rainbows like
a ballerina dancing in the sky
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SNOWFLAKES By Emma The snow ballerina. In
the sky, drifting there. It glimmers
glides! Winters glee land on me! Sparkling swir
ls glitters be.
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pe by Kennedy going going so fast
boom crash lets go come
on boom crash rog way zoom zoom
crash zoom. ou soom cady biy
biy zoom ok I AM out Of BRetH CAN
I tack a brack. now no no Run
flash aiell bech you so fast
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KICK BALL BY ALEXANDER Kick the bouncy ball as it
travels at high speeds. Kick the ball goes
flying run, run, first, second, third, home
run. Next Evan your up kick flying through
the air run, run, uh... your out. Next Conner
kick run, run, miss, first second double
next Jackson kick fly, fly, first second third
triple, next Miles time to line up good game.
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Thank you so much for coming! We are so excited
to have a chance to share with you!!
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Now take a few minutes to hear a few more of my
poems from our collections!