Poetry Packet

Collins is about a child who made a piece of lanyard for his mother. His mother has done everything for his, bathed him, care for him throughout the poem the main character compares his mom to him. For example, he talks about how his mother has done so much for him throughout his life, that he needs to pay her back. And he makes a lanyard. It’s as if every stanza is a puzzle piece and at the end it all comes together.

The first stanza is about how the main character is older and he remember his story of how he gave a piece of lanyard to his mother who cared for him. The second stanza is about making his lanyard at camp and when he saw his mother he gave it to her. I think this is very relatable because as a daughter, I realize how much my mother does for me, I give little things to her that I make. The rest of the stanzas are about the relationship between him and his mother. The main ideas of these stanzas were that even the smallest thing you could give to your mother can mean the world to her.

In the poem, there are many words that create a good word choices the author, Billy Collins used to set the joyful tone. For example, the word “ricocheting” which means bouncing off wall to wall, makes a huge impact in the sentence, “The other as I was ricocheting slowly off the pale blue walls…” the word makes it have a tone to the sentence.

I Feel Spring By Maya MacDougall

I hear the birds chirping tunes,

The rain dropping wet water on the concrete,

The kids laughing,

The sun shining

            I see the children coming out of school with joyful faces,

            I see the dogs playing with a tennis ball in the park

I feel the rain drops on my face instead of snow freezing my face

I feel the flowers and dirt touch my toes softly

I feel the laughter as I close my eyes

Happiness is in the air

            Spring has come.

 Haiku’s

“In the sea

, purple, gold, and pink reflect

 on the shiny sand”

“Waves come up to the purple shore bubbles,

left on the sand, the clouds are colors like a rainbow

water on their gentle  toes”

“Splashing all around,

salt water on the ground

their faces smiling at one another”

 “Dream or reality?

Tropics, trees, and sunsets

Enjoying the view of the crane flying in the distance”

Pure By Maya MacDougall

Waves

Pure blue waves

Pouring out of the calm

Deep blue ocean

Boats full of people

Scared, more like terrified in the

Deep blue ocean

The talls waves more like hands

Towering over the people

Like a huge skyscraper in the

Deep blue ocean

Water spilling,

Water sprouting,

Water as big as a building,

In the deep blue ocean

Sonnet:

Ocean Sonnet

By Maya MacDougall

The wind is blowing in the summer air

I jump off the dock, splashing all around,

I went to the house, surrounded by flowers

You skip, frolicking, surrounded by sound 

Ocean washes something up on the sand

Today, the sea formed haystacks of seaweed

Yesterday formed sea -shells and crunchy sand,

Gentle hum of the soft ocean breeze

In joyful moments lazing by a steam,

 foaming seas and to the land of the dream.

Remember me, but only with a smile,

A sign of the ocean and it’s breeze

The magenta flowers are blossoming

The blue-red coral and it’s mystery.