Not sure where to post this, so here it goes.
Life
It must come to an end
For even though we lived a good one
It's time to go away
Remember the good times you had|
and all the fun you had
'cause it's time to go away
But if you have a strong friendship
you might remember them in your next life!
But sadly, it's time to go away
Little correction: your 10 year old correctly wrote “come to an end” but you typed “come to and end”
Nice job on the poem, kid! I hope the death stuff is more hypothetical than from any tragedy in your life.
Thanks for pointing out. I sincerely have no idea where the death stuff came from. I mean, I sort of do. She wrote a poem about humans and thought it was not good. I was floored by how mature and thought provoking it was, that I probably went overboard in complimenting her. Now she says I liked the way she wrote like a grown up, and grown ups most think of death, so she wrote this one. I don’t know what that says about her or me or her perception of grown ups lol.
I once did a project with my 3rd graders where we looked at a bunch of poems and cartoons from The New Yorker and then they tried to do one of each. It seemed like almost all of the adult poems had death as a major theme, so I specifically told them something like “that’s a topic for old people, try to write about Life instead.” I sent them outside to look at something in “Nature” (well, a suburban school playground) and come up with a metaphor for their poem. The only rules for the cartoon were, one picture, one line, and both should be necessary. Humor preferred but optional, same for social commentary. They came out surprisingly well as a whole, and I bound them as “The Third Grader” for the class library.
That’s an interesting idea, I’ll try that, thanks