May 10, 2007

One Sentence Poems

Students created these poems following a pattern that begins:
The most beautiful thing
I've ever seen
was...

After reading ours, why don't you try one? It looks easy, but there is a challenge in describing something beautiful in one effective sentence, especially if you try to create a word picture.


The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a red robin
With its long black beak
And pretty red feathers.
--Angel


The most beautiful
I’ve ever seen
Was an apple-blossom-colored dress
Standing on beautiful red
Velvet laced edges.
--Tabitha

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a box
Full of roses.
--Jalon

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a cat
With long thick fur
And a cute little face.
--Kris

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was an apple blossom tree
With small pink flowers,
And falling petals.
--Erica

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a rainbow
With beautiful colors
And very long.
--Lateisha

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a white snow leopard
Having white fluffy fur
And really sharp teeth.
--Nicole

The most beautiful thing I’ve Ever Seen

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a pink and white shirt
With ruffles and lace
and big black words.

--by Angel

The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
was a red bird
with bright red feathers
and its small beak


--by Mikaelon

The most beautiful thing I ever seen

The most beautiful thing
I’v ever seen
was a rainbow.
with the most amazing colors
And how it seemed to be very long.

--by Lateisha

April 26, 2007

One-Sentence Poems

Look under Literati 1AB for directions to write your own one-sentence poem.

The most beautiful
I’ve ever seen
Was a red robin
With its long black beak
And pretty red feathers.
--Angel


The most beautiful
I’ve ever seen
Was an apple-blossom-colored dress
Standing on beautiful red
Velvet laced edges.
--Tabitha

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a box
Full of roses.
--Jalon

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a cat
With long thick fur
And a cute little face.
--Kris

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was an apple blossom tree
With small pink flowers,
And falling petals.
--Erica

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a rainbow
With beautiful colors
And very long.
--Lateisha

The most beautiful thing
I’ve ever seen
Was a white snow leopard
Having white fluffy fur
And really sharp teeth.
--Nicole

About the Literati 2A

Literati 2A are seventh graders in the Henderson Middle School AVID program. AVID stands for Achievement Via Individual Determination, and we are all determined to be ready for high school and then college. Scholarships to college are our collective goal. We're writing poems to show that we are becoming well-rounded scholars with plenty of AVIDtude! We look forward to reading other students work and responding to it. We hope you will have comments for us on our poems, too.