Students wrote a prompted free write about their school day, and then made new 16 word poems - either love poems, memory poems or epistolary (note) poems - using only language from their free writes
Fifth Period
Nitasha M.
High School
High school kids
Smoking in the parking lot
By my bus
With pink hair
Smells very bad.
James S.
I see
people but
I wait
for you
I see
but you
are always
too busy
Antonio S.
I go
off like
a bullet
I run
run run
The last
bell love
that bell.
7th Period
Jonathan H.
Memorable moment
Blue bus
kissing dull
smoking people
lockers smokers
brick cement
steel pointless
buses leaving.
Aura E.
House
Tiny spirits
Intelligence expanding
brain exploding
moon and
dew drop
words pushing
gateway opening
I'm home
Siria A.
I see
When I
take the
bus I
am at
the ocean
That is
all what
I see.
Clarice B
I like it chaos
to Clarice
I like
it metal
blue or
grey, tomorrow
Big Chaos
People everywhere
Jacob S.
Chicas and Fighting Chickens
Girls and
Fighting chickens
are the
coolest things
oh wait
some things
are not
right here
8th Period
Gregory U.
My Sixteen Words
Love is
hate. Hate
is pain.
Pain is
happy. Happy
is new.
New is
love and
love is
cycle.
Clementine F.
Epistolary: The note
Be happy, school's almost over.
Meet me at the lockers after school.
Then we can go home.
Elizabeth B.
Golden hair
Big Brown eyes
It drives me crazy
when you look at her that way.
Eva S.
Cold metal
Metal skateboard
Metal door
Metal detector
Metal hallways
Metal windows
Metal bell
Metal locker
Car
Adam W.
LOVE IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN UNLESS…
When I look at the girl I love
I feel sad I am feeling everlasting Oblivion.
Alex H.
I awake staring outside
with feelings
of things
long day
of long
day dreams
fidgety kid
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