Slice of Life Challenge: For the month of March, I'm participating in a daily writing challenge, blogging, and posting, and reading other teachers' blogs. This challenge was started by two writing teachers, and can be found at their blog each day: www.twowritingteachers.wordpress.com. Feel free to join me! It's a great way to keep story threading throughout your brain each day.
Cupcakes
frosted, sprinkled
layered in chocolate,
vanilla and strawberry
too;
Paper-wrapped on the outside
in pinks and greens
and blues
with polka-dots, hearts
and cute little teddybears
too.
These sweet, delectable
puffs of cake
whose calorie count
adds up
to nine hundred and
eighty two--
cross my desk
and wait...
for the weakened.
If--
in my teaching years,
I gave way to
temptation?
My waist-size
would measure
a hundred
and
sixty two!
Cupcakes!
(In the style/but hardly the talent, of my beloved Valerie Worth: All the Small Poems, and Fourteen More; dedicated to the memory of a teaching pal from years ago, Dave Carrington, "the Duke," who ate many a cupcake for me!)
3 comments:
I love your small poem about cupcakes ala Valerie Worth! I shared her treasures with my class today and they had a go at imitating her poetry for their Slice of Life challenge today. Thanks for sharing.
You channeled Valerie Worth well. Oh the cupcakes that are delivered to our desks! My son was always happy to help out by devouring the ones on my desk.
I'm so glad your kids enjoyed Valerie Worth's style. I really believe her poems have taught me more about commas and colons and semi-colons than any other structural grammar lessons I learned in my earlier years. I challenge my kids what constitutes a complete idea (sentence), how to elaborate upon a basic idea and how to use commas and line-breaks to slow the reader down.
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