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| Let the Circle Be Unbroken |
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Comments about Let the Circle Be Unbroken - Childrens Poetry
Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a book of poetry about how kids think and feel. It starts with poems for the very young, with titles like "My Mama Says She Loves Me, and It's True" and moves gradually to poems for older kids, with titles like "The Wastebasket Band" and "The Ghost Snake." The final section includes poems for junior high readers, with titles like "Fourteen and a Half" and "The New Driver."
Excerpts from Let The Circle Be Unbroken:
I Hate Poetry !
My teacher said to write
A poem about some stuff
I really don't like poetry
And I think I've had enough.
The words are all arranged
In a funny sort of way
That you cannot understand
If you try and try all day.
There's poems about the flowers
And poems about the trees
I think that I'd go crazy
If I tried to write like these.
She said listen to my music
But my music makes good sense.
Cause the deejay's speak in street talk
And are never hard or dense.
So I'm going to tell my teacher
That I'm not going to fight it,
I did my best with poetry
But I just couldn't write it.
Have you ever felt like this? Poetry can be fun, easy and a wonderful to express yourself. Sometimes a poem can rhyme, but often poetry is unrhymed. Anything is possible! Here is another poem to try:
so I did
In a time and place
where questions
are never answered
and answers
end with question marks
I have to be ten
I had to pee
and the teacher
wouldn't let me go
Why do I even have to ask?
Should I ask to breathe?
Should I ask to see?
All I really need
is a moment to pee.
If the teacher has to go,
he walks right out the door
But me? I gotta beg
and tell my business
to the world
because I'm just a kid
I have to ask permission
He said I couldn't
I knew I shouldn't
But I really had to pee
So I did.
Let The Circle Be Unbroken
ISBN 181786-80-3
Copyright (R) Sharon Draper 1997
Used By Permission
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