N's Narration for Bible History

Poetry

So far we have been very faithful to our Tuesday Teatime. Every Tuesday around 3:00 p.m. , we sit around the kitchen table and read poetry. In another world different from mine, the table would be prettily decorated. There would be a seasonal centerpiece, candles lighted and delicate tea cups. Since that is not my world, we content ourselves with delicious homemade treats. This year we have been following the suggestions over at Serendipity . So far we have covered Acrostic Poems, Ballads, and today, we concentrated on Cinquain poems.

Cinquain poems are either poems model after the Japanese Haiku (Crapsey Cinquain), or any poems with five stanzas or five lines in each stanza. Last week we read some Cinquain by Longfellow. Today we read a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay trying to identify the internal rhyme. The kids also had fun writing their own Crapsey Cinquain.

Here is what they wrote:

Nico
Loud, obnoxius
Singing,banging,drumming
Songs for ever stuck in my head
Brother.


The sky
Blue as you
mourning,weeping,tearing
the world is ending
my foot.

Chili
hot, spicy
bubbling,simmering, cooking
Grandpa's masterpiece
yum-0

I think this was fun for the kids. I might try to do some more of these at our next teatime.