Please enjoy! Remember, this space is a judgement-free zone. If something doesn’t make sense to you, enjoy its nonsensical-ness. If something sounds weird to you, enjoy its weird-sounding-ness. If something boggles your brain, let your brain be boggled. I love how different everyone’s imaginations are. This first project has made me even more excited for the next one.
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WORDS: Boy/Magic/Ripple
MOOD: Sad
the sky is crying tears of blue
who has mad cow disease? Winnie the pooh
even though the cows were locked up in a zoo
the magic in the world has been withdrew
the boy has just spilled all his fondue
one ripple of water just became two
war is still here and that’s an issue
an innocent pig just became BBQ
~Daphne
WORDS: Mountain/Coffee/Cherry Blossom
MOOD: Scared
Up the mountain up.
Coffee in her cup.
she fell out of a tree straight into coffee.
The cherry blossom grows, grows and grows.
It really starts snow, snow and snow.
The mountain is cold.
The mountain is dark.
There’s a sound in the trees, it hums like bees.
Up the mountain up.
Coffee in her cup.
-Someone
WORDS: Grape/Cabinet/Peacock
MOOD: Angry
My snack is now gone and I’m needy.
I’ve lost every last grape, yes indeedy,
For the cabinet latch
Was from a poor batch
And the Peacock exceedingly greedy.
It wasn’t Ben’s fault, so I heard,
But I’m fuming as I hear the word,
And with nothing to chew
I’m not sure what I’ll do
If I should get my hands on that bird!
-Dana
WORDS: Oatmeal/River/Tea Cup
MOOD: Creepy
Where is the oatmeal? (drip drop)
In the cave. (drip drop)
Which cave? (drip drop)
The one with the river. (drip drop)
Which cave with the river? (drip drop)
The one with the tea cup. (drip drop)
The one we are in? (drip drop)
Yess-ssss. (drip drop)
-Ashby
WORDS: Deodorant/Polar Bear/Pineapple
MOOD: Angry
There once was a polar bear named Icey.
He met his wife to eat.
At the restaurant he smelled a smell.
It smelled like rotten eggs and stinky feet!
He grrrd and grrrd and his wife said what’s wrong?
Icey sniffed his wife and said you forgot to put deodorant on!
So he grabbed a piece of pineapple and squirted it on her arm pits.
Then they enjoyed their meal and he said next time don’t forget!
-Alexis
WORDS: Cow Bell/Book/Cookies
MOOD: Creepy
Inside a grim cowbell
The dark of the ripped book
And the time deciding how to creep
Along
Here come your cookies
Heed their jazz hands
-Chelsea
WORDS: Skateboard/Plum/Grasshopper
MOOD: Angry
as it sped down the road
at 9 miles per hour
green as a grasshopper or a toad
i stared as it came but not to cower
my face turned purple
purple as a plum
as i watched that skateboard go by
wishing it was mine
steam came out of my ears
as i walked home racing the fleeting sun
-Someone
WORDS: Sock/Egg Salad Sandwich/Dog
MOOD: Creepy
Dog’s stomach growled.
He put a sock on each paw but one.
He searched to no avail, one sock
was gone.
He set off to eat anyway.
At the shop, he holds his egg salad sandwich,
his mouth waters.
Dog bites, but tastes fabric.
“My sock!”
-Maya
WORDS: Platypus/Bowl/Comedy
MOOD: Confused
What is this that I find within my bowl?
Is it not some life-full marsupial?
A kind of kangaroo, or platypus?
Not breakfast food that I have ever seen.
I cannot well consume another life,
Not such a species so endangerèd.
Is it such wicked cosmic comedy
That I should have my food, but cannot eat?
-Evan
WORDS: Narwhal/Unicycle/Thumbtack
MOOD: Sad
There is a trash can
Four objects sit inside
a narwhale who’s horn is more of a nub now
A unicycle small and broken
The wheels uneven
A thumbtack that did not do its job
And a piece of plastic
It’s one job was to be thrown away
Why are these all in the trash?
Because we can
-Adia
WORDS: Moose/Legs/Paint
MOOD: Angry
She threw her paint and palette at her feet
They splashed her legs with radiant color
She muttered and cursed in defeat
She’d never worked this hard before
When it comes to art she feels obtuse
Because how the heck do you paint a moose?!?
-Bijou
WORDS: Intersection/Bread/Cave
MOOD: Creepy
I get into my car, my car made of bread.
This whole road trip is getting in my head
Should I go back into my sad dark cave,
Or should I continue on and be brave?
I stop at the intersection and am about to go on, when I see a lonely duck singing my favorite song.
Things are getting scary,
and I go back to my dark sad cave,
with my roommate Mr. Toad.
-Savanna
WORDS: Puffball/Beaver/Trampoline
MOOD: Creepy
once… a catastrophe occurred
a PUFFBALL went missing
ba, ba, ba!
Detective BEAVER went after her
They found her missing
A brain!
Smiling to the moon
And the moon stared back
The moon looked like a TRAMPOLINE
But one not looking like the moon
What is this phenomenon
Doo, doo, doo, doo doo
That’s all for now
On the Imagination Networks
Doo doo doo, doo doo doo
-Finley
WORDS: Rabbit/Graphic Novels/Unicorn
MOOD: Angry
Day 12 quarantine I’m alone in my room
Reading graphic novels one maybe two
My parents are fighting I wish they would can it
While I hope I would just disappear like a rabbit
I look through my window at the scruffy yard outside
My little sister making a unicorn and toad collide
I’m pulled away by the screaming of my name
People always telling me that I’m not to blame
Day 12 quarantine I’m alone in my room
Reading graphic novels one maybe two
-McKenna
WORDS: Koala Bears/Building/Avocado
MOOD: Scared
As I was walking down the street eating some avocado toast,
I heard footsteps behind me and turned around to boast,
Only to find a Koala bear who was 100 feet high,
He was taller than a building, he was taller than the sky,
Not knowing what to do, I screamed and ran
All the way home up to my room
I could hear his footsteps boom.
So I hid under a blanket.
Then I woke up.
-Someone
WORDS: Cracker/Wheelbarrow/Rats
MOOD: Happy
Once there was a family of rats,
Looking and scurrying for food.
There was nothing in sight…
Except one cracker of delight.
Agreeing on fairness was hard,
Nothing would be right.
Then all of the sudden, a wheelbarrow came
And the cracker was smashed
Into fair and honest nibbles.
And they all yelled, “Horray! Horray!”
-Rue
WORDS: Cake/Caterpillar/Kalimba
MOOD: Confused
The cake was frosted and three tiers tall
Placed on a table midst colors of fall
A Caterpillar now laden with wings
A semblance that age comes to claim all things
And the child sat in the very last row
She’s young right now, but someday she’ll grow
She sits silently without comprehension
Unaware of the room that is filling with tension
She sits and a tune slow and shrill
The Kalimba a gift from her late grandma’s will
-Jackson
WORDS: Backpack/Skyscraper/Thimble
MOOD: HAPPY
On a warm summer day
In a field, far away
A small girl had come to play
Where the long grasses sway
Left her backpack without a glance
And barefoot, she started to dance
Her skirt twirled as she pranced
Colorful flowers in her hands
The trees, skyscraper-tall
Watched her, enthralled
The flowers, thimble-small
Saw that she had not a care at all
She untied her braids and smiled
Let the ribbon float a while
Towards the sinking sun
Because this was a day of fun
-Meaghan
WORDS: Sushi/Cakes/Door
MOOD: Angry
Outside my window
There’s a dome of trees
And it looks like a parachute
Swaying in the breeze
That’s all for now
Cause I can’t think of rhymes
I hope that this poem
Wasn’t a waste of your time
-Kelly
WORDS: Rabbit/Macaroons/Hellebore
MOOD: sad
The macaroons all disappeared long ago.
The hungry rabbit hobbles along in search of dinner.
He comes along a hellebore flowers and nibbles on it’s leaves.
The morning comes and the rabbit rests motionless on the ground.
-Raya S.
WORDS: Wax/Artist/Planet
MOOD: Sad
There was an artist who made sculptures
Not just any sculptures, but
wax sculptures
One day a planet came and…
squashed her world.
Ruining all the wax she loved.
-Someone
WORDS: Snowflake/Shoulders/Tree
MOOD: Creepy
She ran into a tree,
Which made a single snowflake fall.
Something brushed her shoulder. She
jumped
She turned, and it was gone.
She began to flee the woods, panicked.
The next day, the news reported a
missing persons. It was the girl.
-Rheya H.
WORDS: Pencils/Lampshade/Sea Cucumber
MOOD: Sad
Fred the sea cucumber loved to draw all he saw
He loved all his colored pencils, he never used stencils
Then one day a wave washed him on the shore
He wasn’t going to see his friends anymore
That night an owl named Rex Vladivlaire saw Fred from the air
He flew down and said, “Can we be friends, what’s your name?”
Fred sniffed and said, “I’m Fred and drawing’s my game.
We can’t be friends. I’m in the sea. You live in the sky”
“Could you draw me, before I fly up-high?” But Fred said, “Goodbye,
It’s dark and I have no lampshade today.” Then Fred washed away.
-Will
WORDS: Ottoman/Possibility/Flower pot
MOOD: Scared
try not to think about how dark it is
The possibility of rain hangs in the air
Shifting the shadows
Unfortunately, this is the part of town where people don’t think to buy
An ottoman for their best chair
They all stand out on their balconies holding a red flowerpot
And wait for me to pass
What a peculiar night
-Siena
WORDS: Rhizome/Globe/Hot Air Balloon
MOOD: Happy
Twas a happy hot air balloon.
Though there was one thing that you had to assume,
Was strange about the assumed-on balloon.
At the bottom of this balloon were two flowers continuously growing.
For all these flowers needed to survive,
Was simply the wind blowing by.
But as you can guess,
Things really got into a terrible mess,
‘Cause with many a rhizome growing,
The flowers soon multiplied ten and then twenty!
And the travelers who traveled far around the globe,
Thought that it was really quite funny.
How hard it was not step on a flower,
To ensure that it was not the flower’s last hour.
And the balloon really did think that it was quite nice,
How they nicely respected the flowers’ civil rights
And that is the story of a happy balloon.
-Ronan
WORDS: Koalas/Lollipop/Snake
MOOD: Happy
Mr. Koala loved munching on eucalyptus leaves.
One day the eucalyptus tree ran out of leaves.
Poor Mr. Koala searched for a new tree.
He found a lollipop tree!
Mr. Koala ate a lollipop.
The lollipop tasted like eucalyptus!
This was even better than leaves of eucalyptus!
The End
And there was also a snake.
-Nicolas
WORDS: Aardvark/Tornado/Bongo Drums
MOOD: Confused
Once I went to the ballpark
There I met this weird aardvark
Wouldn’t It be funny if his name was mark
We went out to find some plums
He said he also wanted to buy some bongo drums
It was probably for his mums
We were suddenly caught in a tornado
It sure did sound like a radio
Wait weren’t we supposed to go on a talk show?
-Jessie
WORDS: Cow/Book/Panini
MOOD: SAD
Once upon a time
A person was
Eating a panini
And randomly
A cow came in
The house
And it startled the person and
The person dropped the panini
And the person started
Reading a book 💛😊
-Persephone
WORDS: MOON/COW/REINDEER
MOOD: Happy
There was a cow named Gerald
And a reindeer named Bertha
They lived together in a house by the beach
They liked the beach very much
At night they would watch the moon together
And at day they would play in the water
They liked each other very much
they were always joyful when they were around each other.
-Clover
WORDS: Cosmos/Squid/Stage
MOOD: Angry
I messed up my
blocking, and
now they are
mocking
I said my lines
wrong and I
messed up my
song
Maybe the
Stage isn’t my
thing, Perhaps I
should try
being king
All my dance
Moves were
whack and then
I fell smack…
ON THE
GROUND!!! I
tried to play the
role of the
squid, but after
all I am just a
kid
I really needed
my space, so I
went to the Cosmos
You
know, that
burger place?
-Peyton
WORDS: Batter/Light/Faith
MOOD: Happy
A battery is sometimes chargeable
Light looks different when it goes through water
I have faith that there will be more than one sun someday
-Gus
WORDS: Candle/Box/Cumulus Cloud
MOOD: Sad
A candle melts on
A box sitting underneath
A cumulus cloud
-Gwen
WORDS: Chair/Mountain/Light Bulb
MOOD: Scared
She sat in the chair shaking
in the dark, she could see the shape of the mountain
Was it the whole world that was quaking?
She sat in that chair straining
In the chaos, she heard the smallest of whisper
Was it just the loud sky raining?
She sat in their chair like a bump
In the motion around her, she was a statue
The light bulb flicker made her jump
-Mandy
WORDS: Raindrop/Music/Popsicle
MOOD: Confused
Why does that raindrop fall on my head?
Why do I eat my popsicle in my bed?
I am not sure! I don’t know why!
Why do bees always sting me in the eye?
Nothing makes sense, especially the music.
Why does it always have to be acoustic?
Why do some plants grow up, and some grow down?
Does chocolate milk come from cows that are brown?
I still don’t know why that raindrop fell on my head!
And, why are all the stores all out of delicious bread?
I don’t know! And I don’t think I ever will.
Maybe I’ll write this all down with a quill.
-Kyla
WORDS: Book/Cow/Panini
MOOD: Sad
I was trying to save the cow,
But my panini was burnt somehow.
So I sat down to read a book,
I went to take a look.
And what do you know?
It fell into a brook!
-Alana
WORDS: dragon/Moon/Archer
Mood: Creepy
Moon’s arisin’ over there
Where the Archer cuts your hair
Dragon’s flesh and dragon’s bones
Across the sand and on the stones
Disappearing over there
And reappearing in your hair
Underneath where all’s acreep
We’re the ones inside your teeth
Making pains all so deep
And remember, don’t brush your teeth!
-Owen