Table of Contents

I Am Poem

Bio Poem

Re-Creation Poem

Stylistic Imitation Poem

Definition Poem

Limerick Poem

Ode Poem

Found Poem

Choral Poem

Favorite Poem

I Am Poem: I Am a Flower

I am a flower

I wonder when I shall bloom

I hear the others getting picked

I see the light within their smiles

I want to be wanted

I am a flower

I pretend I am bigger but..

I feel so small

I worry I may not be good enough

I cry to be chosen

I am just a flower

I understand that I am one in a million

I say I can be more

I dream to be more

I try to impress you

I hope to be your flower because

I am nothing but a flower, but with you I'm a whole garden of beauty

Bio Poem: Makayla Prochazka

Makayla

Sarcastic, sassy, goofy, adventurous

Daughter of Patrick and Alanda

Lover of coffee, french fries, and music

Who feels enlightened when she receives food, attention, and travel time

Who needs food, sleep, and vacation

Who gives compassion, love, and time to my friends and family

Who fears spiders, clowns, and public speech

Who would like to see the Northern Lights, space, and the Love Lock Bridge

Resident of Santee

Prochazka

Re-Creation Poem: Silence

The dark night stands

The fire burning in my chest

My breath dancing through my teeth

A cold shiver flows through my body

Like someone’s watching me

I glanced up and see

At the end of the hall

Where there is no light at all

There’s a girl

With a soulless smile and frost within her heart

Her eyes are gray and clear as day

They are filled with pain

The pain that tears one apart

Her face missing expression

Blank and emotionless

And it seems that

The more you stare

The closer she appears

There’s a slight fear in the air

That gives you a feeling

That you might be seeing

A vision of a being

A being followed by this feeling

A feeling of connection

When you realize your staring

Staring into the eyes of your own soul

Cold and brittle

Piercing your skin at touch

She says no words

I say no words

We just stare

There’s nothing to be said

Nothing to be done

Just stare into my own eyes with complete silence

Selected words are from Gary Soto’s poem “Oranges”

Stylistic Imitation Poem: Cancer

At ten twenty three in the morning.

It was ten twenty three in the morning.

Died in beauty, like a rose blown from its parent stem

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Mourning had lain thick in the room, like dust

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Cancer took its toll

At ten twenty three in the morning.

The monitor ringed, piercing our ears

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Tears fall upon my face

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Our faces went grey

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Death lays upon a bed and stares back at me

At ten twenty three in the morning.

A soul flew to heaven

At ten twenty three in the morning.

A new guardian angel has arisen

At ten twenty three in the morning.

My heart aches in pain

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Her soul stays afloat

At ten twenty three in the morning

If heaven had a window and God granted me a view

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Of all the beauty it beholds, I'd only look for you

At ten twenty three in the morning.

If I could only view once more the smile that warmed my heart

At ten twenty three in the morning.

I hope that you can hear me and listen to my thoughts

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Heaven received a soul

At ten twenty three in the morning.

My dear auntie

At ten twenty three in the morning

We shall be together again

At ten twenty three in the morning.

When heaven has then received my soul

At ten twenty three in the morning.

Imitation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s style in his poem “Llanto por Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Definition Poem: Flibbertigibbit

Flibbertigibbet: [flibrdējibt], noun, plural flibbertigibbets,

a frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.

The moment you wake up and want to open your blabbermouth;

Your chatterbox runs all day

With all the gossip and chatter spreading its way;

You must be quite the meddler

Since you’re a tattler;

And do nothing but gossip all day

Your mouth seems to never shut;

Until someone tells you to shut up!

All I have to say is

Quiet you flibbertigibbet!

Limerick Poem: Fall

Seems reality has set in and summer's finally over

The leaves are a-splendor with stunning composure

Fall has fallen

The time is solemn

But spring is getting ready to pop up the clover

Ode Poem: Rain

Oh Rain, how lovely your presence is.

You hide the blazing sun

and bring the shade I crave.

My body is a desert of dying plains.

Sipping every splash of you is

a refreshment of joy.

From the Heavens, you Tickle my skin.

I See you shimmering on my eyelashes

like gleaming crystals.

I smell the air, and inhale the

freshness you bring.

You form pooling puddles like sheets of glass in which I splash upon.

When you pass, I wait patiently

for the melodic drip drop symphony

you bless.

Found Poem: Suicide

I move the bloody syringe from my arm

The coldness slowly spreads into my body

The pill bottles sitting on my bed

I am clutching the glass beside me

I can hear the doves that live in wisteria waking up

My breath is slowly escaping my lungs

Silence haunts my wasted body

I look at the light

As my body is released from this refuge world

I am now free

Words from the novel The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Choral Poem: The Dog & Cat

The dog and the cat

Side by side

Twas’ half past 12

The dog and the cat

Had not

With them both awake

It was double the trouble

And with all that

The dog and the cat

On the table sat

And what do you think

The dog and the cat

(pause) slept a wink

It was double the trouble

Rumble

That vase

Followed by the

There was an awful lot of chatter

So the two

By the next

There was no traces of

The dog and the cat

And to this

Went and crumbled

(pause) loud shatter

There was an awful lot of chatter

Had to scatter

(pause) morning

The dog and the cat

(pause) day

They say the burglars

But the truth

Is that

They ate each other up

Took the pair away

About the cat and the pup

They ate each other up