Tasty Poetry Challenge Day 1

Today is the first day of National Poetry Month and the first day of our poetry challenge entitled Tasty Poetry. Throughout the month you will see a new photo of our favorite foods and a poem to go with it. We hope that you will join our fun by reading our poems, sharing your thinking about them in the comment section below or maybe even sharing your own poem based on the picture as well. Today you will see several poems. One that I modeled writing for our class and several they wrote in groups, partners, or on their own. Our goal was to stretch our imagination for this poem. We used Amy VanDerwaters poetry challenge found at http://www.poemfarm.amylv.com/ for guidance. We discussed perspective for our first poem and different groups chose to write their poem from a different perspective. We hope our poems make you smile and delight your senses. Enjoy and happy writing everyone!

Corn-on-the-cob
by Mrs. Daley

Long summer nights,
when family and friends gather
filled with cookouts, laughter, and fun.
A steaming pot of golden goodness
awaiting our eager lips,
slathered in butter.
We munch and crunch 
the sweet and salty delight.
Falling silent
savoring the flavor and the memories
of a season that will be gone
all too quickly.

Corn
by Brock Mendez, Bryce Dailey, Julianna Corteville, and Kiley Casson

I take a bite.
Crunch, Crunch.
The golden yellow corn
explodes in my mouth
like an explosion of
buttery, sweet goodness.
I love to eat corn-on-the-cob
on hot summer nights.

Corn
by Libby Hanagan

Sweet, bitter
like a bomb
setting off in my mouth.
Mmmm...
It makes me greedy for more.
Two bites at a time
my mouth is full.

Crunch, crunch.
Sweet, bitter
like dynamite 
in my mouth.
I like butter on my corn.
It makes it juicy.

I like my veggies.
They make me grow big and strong.
Butter makes them salty.