Monsters!!!!

Ummm Wow...a monster that I want to blog about?

I guess I would have to choose stitch from the Animated Movie "Lilo and Stitch". I really enjoy cartoons and kids movies. They are fun and funny and stitch is a very funny character. He tries very hard to me a nice little alien monster but often gets caught up my his natural tendencies to act like the true monster that he is. tearing up things and shooting his little lazer gun. In the end he ends up being a sweet and kind pet that loves his family and outs them first. I have seen this several times I would share this with my children in the future.

Heartless by LaToya Williams

Heartless

I’m not giving you my heart again
Last time you showed no care
You tore it in to pieces
So I just left it there
No need for me to mend it
For another man to break
It’s you, you are the reason
For every man I hate

What was the inspiration for the poem?
I have been a party to heartbreak and also a witness to it. It is painful. Some people choose to never pick up the peices to that broken part of them and become bitter and "heartless" towards others.

What challenges did you face?
I didn't have any real challenges with the poems that I wrote other that choosing what to write about. My love for music and singing may have had an affect on that. Everything comes to me in song and sometimes in rhymes so I probably have lots more poetry stored up in me.

How did you overcome these challenges?
I thought of things that I have passion about and drew from the emotion so my own personal experiences and from that I was able to come up with a peice that I am completely satisfied with.

Nikki Grimes

Fake Tattoo
by Nikki Grimes
My butterfly sits
atop my wrist
as if it’s poised for flight.
My lovely tattoo
no longer new
will fade before the night.
Still, after it’s gone,
it will live on
inside my memory.
This jewel of the air—
beauty most rare—
that once was plain as me.


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Poem- Fake Tattoo

Fake Tattoo
by Nikki Grimes

My butterfly sits
atop my wrist
as if it’s poised for flight.
My lovely tattoo
no longer new
will fade before the night.
Still, after it’s gone,
it will live on
inside my memory.
This jewel of the air—
beauty most rare—
that once was plain as me.

I am not much of a reader so I usually will choose something that is short. I enjoy working with children and this particular poem reminded me of how my Pre-K students come to school with frayed and worn out tattoos on their arms, legs or hands. They are so excited about thier body art and they always want to tell you about them and show them to you. They never want them to come off and they do all they can to avoid getting water on them for fear that they will wash away. It is all very innocent and funny the way they try so hard to hold on the little things that are meant to be temporary.