Take a Walk in Our Shoes Poetry Challenge Day 5

It's day five of our poetry challenge! Today's picture sparked lots of conversation in my second-grade classroom because students were debating which point of view should the poem be written from. Finally, a group of students decided on the Ugg, because that was the shoe that drew their attention the most and they thought it has a story to tell. Their poem shows off their creativity, as the Ugg is having a conversation with the reader explaining his life.

Fallen

by Caleb Gurger, Mason Michaelsen, Zane Jermyn and Aischa Foster

Hi! I'm the fallen Ugg.

There's a reason why

I am down here

with punctured lungs and fractured bones.

Look up there,

that's my cousin

and he's a bully.

He is the reason 

I am down here.

Hear that squealing

that's my friend Converse

getting smashed.

I thought to myself,

"Would you rather be down here

with these stupid bones and lungs?"

Because I rather be up there

getting smashed by my cousin.