Color Series, 4th grade
Ghosts Are White
Ghosts are white.
Blood is red.
On Halloween night
People come back from the dead.
Orange Jack-o-lanterns
Jack-o-lanterns are orange.
Ghosts are white.
They will haunt you
On Halloween night.
Shine Bright
Silver bells ring on Christmas night,
While all the stars shine bright.
White
My face has gone white
Because I'm filled with fright.
I am quite a sight.
Oh, I hope I get this right.
Red
Her nose is red.
She's staying in bed;
She refuses to be fed.
"You poor thing. You're sick,"
her mother said.
Commentary:
I was nine, and clearly, on my way to becoming a prodigy in the fine art of rhyming words and finding inspiration in color. Really, it's a shame that I didn't keep all the loose leaf paper with the poems I wrote about my friends. Most of them had to do with people being nice, scared of mice, and not liking rice. Genius.
If you have read any of the Wayside School books by Louis Sachar, in Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, the kids all have to write poems based on colors. I loved these books in elementary school, and this is probably where I found the idea of writing these poems.
Ghosts are white.
Blood is red.
On Halloween night
People come back from the dead.
Orange Jack-o-lanterns
Jack-o-lanterns are orange.
Ghosts are white.
They will haunt you
On Halloween night.
Shine Bright
Silver bells ring on Christmas night,
While all the stars shine bright.
White
My face has gone white
Because I'm filled with fright.
I am quite a sight.
Oh, I hope I get this right.
Red
Her nose is red.
She's staying in bed;
She refuses to be fed.
"You poor thing. You're sick,"
her mother said.
Commentary:
I was nine, and clearly, on my way to becoming a prodigy in the fine art of rhyming words and finding inspiration in color. Really, it's a shame that I didn't keep all the loose leaf paper with the poems I wrote about my friends. Most of them had to do with people being nice, scared of mice, and not liking rice. Genius.
If you have read any of the Wayside School books by Louis Sachar, in Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, the kids all have to write poems based on colors. I loved these books in elementary school, and this is probably where I found the idea of writing these poems.