Welcome to the Kenwood English IV Poetry Blog!

Students from Kenwood's Honors English IV classes have written poems inspired by the poems, poets and poetic forms that they've studied during this term's poetry unit. Some students wrote Ballads and Sonnets while others responded to the work of poets like e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath and Rainer Marie Rilke. Many poems are profound, heartfelt and deeply insightful. Others are fun and lighthearted. But, all of the poems illustrate the students understanding and appreciation of the genre of poetry. We invite you to read this work and offer your comments. Thank you.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Playing For Everything

When I first
Started I
Was like this

So small I
Was easy
To diss

It wasn’t that
My sound was
Bad

It was that I
Didn’t have
What they had

Big hands
That make me seem
Stronger

Thought that I
Couldn’t stay
Much longer

Until I stayed there like I was in a boxing ring
But now its funny because I’m playing for
Everything.

Ariana B, Per 1
-Inspired by The Red WheelBarrow
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