Love that Brownie

Today we began a poetry unit.

I think poetry is used to express emotions about someone or something.

I don’t like poetry all that much.

We read Love That Dog by Sharon Creech.

Pause #1: The boy is wrong to say that poetry is for girls. It is for whomever who desires it.

Pause #2: Aren’t poems supposed to show emotions, not about some kid who doesn’t like poems?

Pause#3: The boy is drawing pointless conclusions about poems. Also he is judging author’s ideas.

Pause #4: These are supposed to be poems? Sounds like a story about this kid.

Pause #5: Now the boy’s poems sound like letters. These don’t sound anything like poems.

Pause#6: This is an awesome “story”. He’s telling about his life, but not making poems.

END: He’s talking about poems, but these are supposed to be poems. I am kind of confused.

Jack got his inspiration from Walter Dean Meyers and his everyday life.

Here is my attempt to write a poem.

                                              Love that brownie

Brownie, brownie, I love you

 You’re so full of chocolate

No one knows my love for you

When I break your luscious skin

I melt away with warmth

Brownie, brownie, I love you