Potomac Elementary School
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Grade Student Poetry
2004 - 2005
Potomac Elementary Lower School Poetry written under the guidance of
Potomac Elementary School Poet in Residence Adam Golaski

Question Poem
by Hannah Cook

Why does chocolate smile when you smile?
What person loves to run non-stop?
Why is the sky blue?
Where is the fluffiest pillow in the world?
Why does Cat in the Hat wear a hat?
Where do balloons go when they fly out of
your hand outside?
Who likes to eat paper?

Question Poem
by Najla Swanson

How do you kiss chocolate?
What do you run?
Where do you get blue?
Why are rocks fluffy?
Who are hat?
Where are you, paper?
Why cry balloon?

I Like
by Scottlyn Arnold

I like my brother’s new hedgehog*
because they’re cute.
I also like pineapples
because pineapples are sweet.
I kinda like cheese
because it’s cheesy.

* He doesn’t have his hedgehog yet.

“I Like Poetry…”
by Kaisa Lynn Ness

I like poetry
because it is fun!

I also like to read
because I can learn different languages.

I kinda like math
because I want to get educated and learn.

Why
by Rachel Cheff

Why do butterflies fly sideways?

Why does the grass grow spikes,
armed, ready for battle?

Why does the dragon spew
fire? Why does the volcano
spray water? Why does
dark turn to
light? Who can
ask lies all
night like I
might?

“Cool Stream…” (an abbreviated sestina)
by Anica Preston

Cool stream,
good dream,
two friends,
remember when.
Remember when, us two friends
had a good dream, by the stream?

Us two friends
had a dream by the stream.

Circles
by Emily Grills

The picture is a circle
just like the round agate.

I’ve seen circles many times
like the one on the gate.
There’s one on the speaker

Just like the one on my sneaker.

 

“Yesterday Was a Big Day…”
by Paul Wrobel

Yesterday was a big day.
I flew around the world twice.
There wasn’t much there.
I wanted to go to the moon.
I went to the moon.
I left and decided not to go back there,
but I happened to go back twice.
The next day was a very boring day.
The next day, I saw the moon twice,
there in the light of the day.

Poem
by Cody Helms

A poem is a masterpiece.
A poem can rhyme.
A poem can be weird.
A poem is everything.
A poem is a thing.
A poem can have funny things that make it weird.
You can rhyme.
You are a masterpiece.
He is weird.
You are everything.

Question Poem
by Karrah McDonald

What is your shoe named?
What did you jump?
How did you get here?
What did you hit with?
What is red?
Is he playing carefully?
Who ran fast?

Question Poem
by Cody

Do you have a shoe?
How high can you jump?
How did you get here?

Is red beautiful?
Can you be careful?
How did you do that?

Circles
by Brianca Thornton
an ice-cream scoop is
like a circle I would like
to eat that one! a sticker
is a circle that sticks on
me. the clock is like a circle
with his hands going around
and my eyeball is like
a circle and that’s how I
can see my hand just
writing so fast not knowing what
I’m writing.

“I Went to the Lake…” (a shortened sestina)
by Morgan Lutz

I went to the lake.
I swam a lot.
I rode on wave-runners.
I saw two suckerfish.
They were cool suckerfish.
I love riding on wave runners.
I ate a lot.
It was a very pretty lake.
I rode wave runners
on the lake.
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