Lafayette School Poetry on Parade
“The poems were cool. The best ones were like bombs, and when all the right words came together it was like an explosion.” -Kwame Alexander
Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Friday, May 5, 2023
Manic Mondays
I wish it was Sunday
'Cause that's my fun day
My I don't have to run day
It's just another manic Monday
Anyone want a Guinea Pig, Hamster, Crocodile or .... Wild Barbazzoop?
By: Ken Nesbitt
"Always Sprinkle Pepper in Your Hair"
By: Shel Silverstein
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Icky, Tricky, Creepy Odes
Friday, April 22, 2022
Beautiful Mother Earth
LAF celebrates Earth Day
A Bird came down the Walk—
He did not know I saw—
He bit an Angleworm in halves
And ate the fellow, raw,
And then he drank a Dew
From a convenient Grass—
And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
To let a Beetle pass—
He glanced with rapid eyes
That hurried all around—
They looked like frightened Beads, I thought—
He stirred his Velvet Head
Like one in danger, Cautious,
I offered him a Crumb
And he unrolled his feathers
And rowed him softer home—
Than Oars divide the Ocean,
Too silver for a seam—
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
Leap, plashless as they swim.