Chloe Miller Hansen

One present I got from my mom for christmas was the book, A Maze Me. It's a book of poems. It's really intresting because the way she (Naomi Shihab Nye) writes is she writes 3 lines a day about anything and sooner than later you have a poem. A couple poems that I really like are:

Feeling Wise
A lady was quoted in the newspaper.
"It's not hard to feel wise.
Just think of something dumb you could say,
then don't."

I like her.
I would take her gingerbread
If I knew where her house was.

Julia Child the famous chef said,
"I never feel lonely in the kitchen.
Food is very friendly.
Just look at a potatoe, I like
to pat it.

Staring down
makes you feel tall.
Staring in someone else's eyes
makes you feel not alone.
Staring out the window at school,
you become the future,
smooth and large.

I like that poem. It's different.

Making a Mosaic

Some people begin at the center.
others at the outer edge,
pressing down chips
of lovely broken plates and cups.
Is this the story of days?
Arranged, glued down,
without much space between.

Here is the blue flowery fragment
from dinnerware
on a ship
that sank in 1780.
The antique green plate
Lousie gave me
when I finished fifth grade.
Side by side,
a nice time, a terrible time.

It's a messy job,
glue stuck to the fingertips.
You keep standing back
to see a pattern
emerge.

Well, that's a couple of my favorite poems from this book. Have a great day!

posted by EoLhC @ 6:19 AM