Poetry Friday round-up with Catherine at Reading to the Core
Ruth Ayres invites us the celebrate each week. Click over to her site Discover. Play. Build. to read more celebrations.
Over at Today’s Little Ditty, Michelle has posted the wrap-up of nothing poems from this month’s ditty challenge posted by Douglas Florian. I have a poem in the collection.
I challenged my students by sharing Diane Mayr’s nothing poem. She used anaphora, a repeated line, “Nothing, but…” This prompt generated a lot of thought. I was excited by the results.
Today, I have a dual post: I celebrate the nothing poems my students created and add them to the Poetry Friday Ditty collection. The digital images were created on Canva.
Love this nature nothing poem from Andrew, 3rd grade.
Lynzee loves the songs of nightingales, 1st grade.
Nothing poem by Kaiden, 5th grade
Kielan’s poem is about a classmate, Erin.
Nothing but rainbow narwhals
Nothing but rainbow butterfly unicorn kittens
Nothing but unicorns
Nothing but love
Nothing but a helpful heart
Nothing but imagination
Reflections on the Teche 