Poetry+Panthers

Jared, Krista, Lindsey, and James picked the book __The Place My Words Are Looking For.__ We liked the book because the layout is unique and different from other books that we've read.
We chose the poem "Forgotten" by Cynthia Rylant because it is very detailed and tells a meaningful and powerful story using so few words. If this story was written in a book the book would be really long and really good.


 * Forgotten**

Mom came home one day and said my father had died. Her eyes all red. Crying for some stranger. Couldn't think of anything to do, so I walked around Beaver telling the kids and feeling important. Nobody else's dad had died. But then nobody else's dad had worn red-striped pajamas and nobody else's dad had made stuffed animals talk and nobody else's dad had gone away nine years ago. Nobody else's dad had been so loved by a four-year-old. And so forgotten by one now thirteen.

Respones -This is a very touching poem. -It really makes me think. -I wonder how her dad died. -She must've been really young because she didn't know him too well. -I wonder where the author got this idea from. Did something like this happen in her past? Or maybe someone that was close to her? -Maybe Beaver is their neighborhood. Beaver seems like a place, a setting. -The line Crying for some stranger is confusing to us. Who is the stranger? The dad? Somebody else who died? -Maybe this is military related and this is something that happens a lot where they are. -This is so sad. The child doesn't have their father and misses him a lot. -Her dad was very special to her. -I wonder what year this was written. If we found out it might give some of the words a new meaning.

Jared, Krista, James, Lindsey, and Daulton K. chose the book **__The Place My Words Are Looking For.__**

Puzzled
I took a sip of lemon pop And then a sip of lime, A little orange soda, too, A swallow at a time. Some grape came next and cherry red, And then I almost cried. How could my stomach fell so bad With rainbows down inside?

Responses: ~It shows a lot of i**migry, it puts a lot of pictures in our heads. ~It shows a lot of meaning in little words. ~It sounded like a little girl wrote this poem. ~We thought the setting was ether in a soda shop or at a party with different types of sodas. ~The girl changed her mood from the beggining to end, in the beggining she was proud that she drank soda, but then she was sick. ~We could tell that it was a boy because of the world rainbows.**