Eleri’s 3rd grade class has been studying poetry. Eleri enjoys poetry and is having fun writing her own poems. The 3rd grade had a poetry reading at school. Eleri was very excited to have us come to hear her recite a poem.
Eleri’s invite to her poetry reading had two poems by Eleri.
Eleri recited the following poem:
Deep in our refrigerator,
there’s a special place
for food that’s been around awhile…
we keep it, just in case.
“it’s probably too old to eat, ”
my mother likes to say.
“But I don’t think it’s old enough
for me to throw away.”
It stays there for a month or more
to ripen in the cold,
and soon we notice fuzzy clumps
of multicolored mold.
The clumps are larger every day,
we notice this as well,
but mostly what we notice
is a certain special smell.
When finally it all becomes
a nasty mass of slime,
my mother takes it out, and says,
“Apparently, it’s time.”
She dumps it in the garbage can,
though not without regret,
then fills that space with other food
that’s not so ancient yet.
She spoke a bit soft, but she had nice expressions in her delivery. Jim was able to attend the poetry reading since his office is now close to school. Eleri really wanted Emersyn to come, also. Emersyn did come, but too late to hear Eleri as the children all recited their poems in 15 minutes. Jim went back to work after the classroom reciting.
After the reciting of poetry, all the 3rd grade classes went to the ES Commons to have cookies, milk, tea and coffee. The students had their poems on display for the parents to read.
After the poetry viewing, Eleri and I went back up the classroom to read together. She very much enjoyed the poetry reading afternoon.