Poetry by Children

Moving Windows: Evaluating the Poetry Children Write by Jack Collom

I REMEMBER...

I remember my first pair of black shoes.
I remember putting on my mother's clothing.
I remember falling for the third time.
I remember trying to fly from my rocking chair.
I remember asking my cat to dance with me.
I remember my grandfather and I swimming in the beach, with the roaring waves.
I remember when my grandmother and I had our first fight and I tried to throw her out the window.
I remember the eighth time I punched my friend Doris on the nose.
I remember so many things that I sometimes don't remember.
-- Odalya Camero, 7th

I remember when I was one I started to walk to the door.
I remember arguing with my sister about her doll just because I broke it.
-- Melissa Rosa, 3rd

I remember when I threw my brother a cup of soda at his face.
I remember playing with my cousin's dancing-playing-hearing record, turning the lights off, playing the drums, acting like a ghost.
I remember taking water and then spitting all over the house.
I remember putting ketchup in a water gun and saying to my brother, "I killed you, I am very foolish." What a happy time we had.
-- Evelyn Carenas, 5th

I remember the day my hands got stuck under my window sill and I cried so hard I farted.
-- Anonymous, 4th

I remember my first watch. I opened it to take out the Mickey Mouse.
-- Veronica Fernandez, 5th

I remember eating sand when there wasn't anything else to do.
-- Claudia Bravo, 8th

I remember when I was sitting on a tree and a dog kissed me.
I remember when I went to the movies and all I did was close my eyes.
-- Myra, 3rd

I remember when I smelled a rose the whole thing broke.
I remember my birthday. One person came.
-- Ana Torres, 3rd

I remember when I was little in kindergarden I met my friend Gia. When we had snack I brought crackers and she brought grapes, and we put it together and ate it.
-- Renee Breazzano, 5th

I remember when my sister and I had the first fight. We didn't talk to each other for days. She kept slipping notes under the door, but I didn't know how to read so I just kept giving them back.
-- Ida Caputo, 4th

I remember a beautiful raven fighting with an old brown woodpecker.
-- Kristina Lacognata, 4th

I remember seeing a comb outside on the street a long time ago. It was green.
-- Sandra Martinez, 5th

I remember talking to my friend about myself, and when I finished she wasn't there.
-- Danielle Stone, 6th

I remember going to the store with my uncle and I got shot.
I remember going to the school and they mugged me.
I remember going to the movies and a monster tried to eat me.
I remember going home and my mother was not there.
I remember going to my friend's house and he would not let me play.
I remember going to the park with my friends and one of them hit me in the head with a ball.
I remember making new friends and one of them hit me with a spitball.
I remember watching TV and it broke on me because I kicked it.
-- Danny Santiago, 5th

I remember when it was snowing, all of that snow comes from the blue sky and ends up on the street.
-- Cynthia Gonnez, 6th

I remember when I learned how to jump, I was so happy that I jumped.
-- Rosita Vasquez, 4th

I remember when I was born. It was the happiest day of my life.
-- Lenore Garcia, 4th

I remember the day I bought a rabbit and it died right in my face.
-- David Fergus, 4th

I remember my dogs looking at me with a crazy look.
-- Bobby Miranda, 4th

I remember when I was born I didn't want anyone to see me.
-- Anonymous, 3rd

I remember when my dog fell off the roof with a smile.
-- Pedro Fonseca, 5th

Remember
Eating a
Mushroom during an
Eclipse with
Millions of
Beautiful
Erotic men
Roaming around me.
-- Tiffany Benn, 5th

I remember when my dog Lady got hit by a car three times and didn't die, but the fourth time she did.
-- Tina Burke, 3rd

I remember my first cat. He was so white I forgot he was there.
-- Maria saona, 3rd

I remember when I took a banana and splashed it on my head.
-- Joann Cruz, 5th

I remember going camping in the woods near a pond and finding a beautiful orange salamander.
I remember when my sister "overloved" the salamander. It died from being rubbed in dry sand. She cried for three days.
-- Naomi Berner, 6th

I remember when hope was a strain beyond your strength that adds an inch to your inward length. Hope is the moment when you jump up
from the trouble out of the slump. Hope is the light in the awful dark, the clear bright blazing becking spark that sets your
feet to a running place for one little look at her beaking face.
-- Reynaldo Camilo, 5th



TYGER, TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT
IN THE FOREST OF THE NIGHT

Yes it is
Yes it would
Yes you could
Yes I will
Yes I am
Yes it is

Yes you should
Yes it will
Yes she will
Yes it can
Yes she is
Yes I do, and I love you.
-- Anonymous, 3rd

I live in a house with you.
I like it too.
I wish I could always see you.
I like it, it's cool.
I want to see you every day.
I want you.
I'll keep you.
I'll dare not trade you.
I like you the way you are.
I'll read to you.
I'll do anything you say.
I want to keep you but I can't.
I wish I could know you.
I wish I was a princess.
I wish it was true.
I would miss you if you left.
but I'd like that too.
I like you.
-- Jackie Lee, 3rd

I think of you
I think of me
I think of everything this world can be
I think of sunlight
I think of rain
I think I'm going insane
I think of flowers
I think of thorns
I think of animals with pointed horns
I think of the beginning
I think of the end
and this is what I think I'll send.
-- Leara Bowles, 5th

When I opened the refrigerator a giant red tomato jumped on me.
When I opened the refrigerator a carrot threw carrot juice at me.
When I opened the refrigerator a glob of jello flew on me.
When I opened the refrigerator a drumstick beat on my head.
When I opened the refrigerator rice started shooting at me.
When I opened the refrigerator the soup fell on my feet.
The next time I go in that refrigerator, I'm carrying a gun.
-- John Russell, 6th



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