Singing Arrow Poetry

Spring 1999

In the Spring of 1999 I taught a weekly workshop for children in the Singing ArrowCommunity Center, (Dorado & Singing Arrow, vicinity of Central & Tramway) inAlbuquerque. This was part of Magnifico, the Albuquerque Festival of the Arts and aspring poetry celebration, Poetry Habitat, one of the many wonderful activities of theNew Kimo Public Art Project with the late Gordon Church, Program Manager.

in appreciation of the talent of kids everywhere and those poets &artists who help spur the creativity of the young and those

programs like Albuquerque Public Arts

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Singing Arrow is alive with everything from bingo to poetry, billiards to soccer, doing artwork

to doing homework, playing Nintendo to watching movies, and yes, doing poetry. We knocked out quite a few poems

and made some fun crafty-wordy things like a square planet with make-believe continents and a playhouse named All theWorld’s a Stage, after the greatest Bard of all. But mostly we

wrote poems and recited them to each other and drew picturesand made up stuff. What fun in all this mayhem. Thanks to all the

kids and all the staff for all your help!

Larry Goodell Spring 1999, Albuquerque

“It seems the kids like the extra attention, a place to get their creativity out and work together. Also to feel they have accomplished something special.”

Jennifer Widener

little booklets by little kids bussed to Singing Arrow after school

Singing Arrow Poetry

The Moon

The Moon isso brightthat turtlesthink it isa bubble!

Joseph

Lots of Words in Town

I see words all over and around.I see words in books around too.I see words on signs that sayCar Wash Two Dollars!

Angello Johnson 2 . Gradend

Easter

Easter was fun.Because my friends went with me.Because you can find eggs.And because you can go over to my house

and find eggs.Because you can find candy

in plastic eggs.And Easter I went to my Auntie Franny’s.

Silvya

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My Room

My bedmy computermy deskand my dresserand a closetmy bookshelfmy Ninja Turtle posterthat I’m going to hang uptomorrow.

Jeremy Cloud

Wishes

I wish I had a swimming pool.I wish I was a bird.I wish I had a star from the sky.I wish I had $1,000,000.I wish I could think of more things!

Nadine Price

My Dog

Kira likes to eat & play.Kira plays with her toy soccer ball.And her baseball toy too.My dog likes to take a bath.

Nick

A.J.

He is a dog.He eats like a hog.He is like a bump on a log.Small as a frog.

Miguel Comacho

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Names

Hershey is a cat.Hershey had six kittens.Tomorrow we’re going to name our kittens.Celina, Spotty, Mariah, Alyssa, Bo-Bo, andJason.

Mariah

The Light-Up Yo-Yo

When it was new it used to sleep.It broke in two once. My mom had to screw it back on.Now it just goes up & down.

Jesse Johnson

Princess

My dog is black and white.She jumps on me.She jumps on my mom.Sometimes she’s cuckoo.

Francine Bumblough 1 Gradest

I Love My Life

I love my lifeI take care of little kidsand I like my friends for friends.Jessica is nice to me.My friends have a stuffed elephantI play with all the time.I went to the movies one time with them.The clouds are beautifuland I like everybody I meetfrom my friends.

Sylvia

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Poems Are Cool

Poems are cool.They’re really really cool.I write them every day.I think of them all my life.I play with them.I make them up.I write them in my Journal.I have a poem club,that writes poems,and sings them to kids.They play them on the radio.I LOVE POEMS!They’re the best in the world!

Jessica Lizebeth Barker

The Kite Message That Goes in the Air

The sky is bluethe clouds are whitebats fly at nightthe sun is brightthe sky is right.

Angello Johnson

This Room

One kid is noisy in the roomand I’m trying to work.Noisy people, stomping on the floorit’s getting more louder.

Jessica & Cassandra

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Poem by Justin Cloud on Mobius Strip:

two days ago I hiked up a mountain 4000 feetand I said “I made it” and it echoed back two

days ago I hiked up etc.

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Flying Butterfly

The butterfly is going away.He went away from me.Then he got into his cocoon.

Jarryn 1 Gradest

Morning

Blue mountains in the morningclouds come by

a bee comes by

Jessica Eggleston

Somebody

Somebody is newsomebody is rudesomebody is blue.

Jarryn

Day

The clouds are whitethe sky is bluethe butterflies are flyingand it’s a wonderful day.

Dakota

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In Here

All the kids are talk-ing and I’m trying to concentrateon my work.

Francine

Spring

The flowers are bloomingthe birds are singingand butterflies are flying.

Cassandra Navarro

Spring

The grass is greenthe sky is blueright now the butterflies are flyinghere & there.

Alyssa Alfaro

Spring

a bee is in the grassa butterfly is flying

and cars are going by.

Francine

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Poem Mobile

1.This shape looks like my rabbit at my house.

2.This shape looks like a flower that blooms out side

3.This color lookslike the colorof the sun thatshines onthe earthto let theflowersgrow.

Nadine Price

Baseball

I playbase ballI hitthe ballI runto thebase.

/?

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Opposites

New, oldgood, badgirl, boybig, smallcold, hotbright, dullfast, slow

Kelsie Cano Atzberger

Pet Snake

I have a snake.I love a snake.I pet a snake.

Joseph

Dice Poem

dish smile people jumptoday smile cat runcan’t jump cat tastecan’t see people tastecat see can’t smilepeople hear apple run

Jessica Woolridge

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Pome

The fishis alivebut soonit willbe deadcause helost hishead.

Kelsie

Roses

roses supposeshis toesare rosesroses supposes

Kelsie Cano

Turkey Feather

This feather yousee was oncefrom a turkey agolden brownturkey whonow is deadbut this beautifulfeather is beautifulremaining.

Mercedes

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A Raindrop

A Raindrop fellin the deep deeplake and the fish were scaredas could be.

Laurinda Smith 4 Gradeth

A Raindrop

A raindrop fell on my feet.Splash!

Amanda Gallegos

A Raindrop

A raindrop fell in my hairI went inside.

Trina Nock

Mobius Strip Poems (2)

Two days ago I echoed on a mountain and it echoed back:

Two days ago I hiked up a mountain4000 feet and I said “I made it”and it echoed back:

Justin Cloud

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I Wish

I wish that I had a whole bunch of money.I wish that I had a new yoyo.I wish that I had a dog.I wish that I had a Nintendo.I wish that I had Sega.I wish that I had a Goosebumps movie.I wish I had a fish.I wish that my birthday was on Saturday.

Dante

Acrostic Poems

T TigerI isG goodE even though he isR rough.

R Read a BookE even though you might thinkA a Book isD Dumb.

/?

The Rain

The rain came downand down and I went out-side in the rain and I got wet.

Yolanda

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Two Acrostics

S Smile when you’re sad.M Make a happy face.I If you’re not feeling wellL Lie down and smileE Every day everywhere.

R Rain is beautifulA Any dayI I used to see it all the timeN Not no more.

Mercedes Turner

I Used To Be

I used to be a fishbut now I’m a dog.I used to be a dogbut now I’m a plant. I used to be a plantbut now I’m an ocean.I used to be an oceanbut now I’m a cloud.I used to be a cloudbut now I’m a human.

Mercedes Turner

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Street Wizard

There is a streetwizard. A wizardis a man whowalks on a streetand createsMiracles.

Roberta

Crazy Tree

Appleplumpizzachickengumcookiesballoonssuckerslimebroccolipotatoice creamtunachips

Jessica Eggleston

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Rose

roseroseroserosestemstemstemstem

Mercedes

Rainbows

Rainbowsare redBees are blueHeartsare purpleand youare too.

Francine Bumblough

Acrostic

D Dog &A Alligator fly a K Kite next to anO Octopus having tea on aT Table sitting on anA Apple.

Michael Mason and Dakota

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Three Poems by Nadine Price

Something I Know

Something something nobody knowsSomething something only I knowSomething something in my headSomething something I’ll only know

Falling Leaves

leaves leave everywhereleaves leaves falling all placesleaves leaves look like flowers

before they fallwherever you go you can’t get enough

of leaves

Flowers Flowers

Flowers flowers bloom everywhereFlowers flowers are like butterflies flying

high in the air

Nadine

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Moon & Sun & Stars All Night

The moon & the sun & the stars all nightThe moon & the sun & the stars all nightwhat is it that is so bright?The moon & the sun & the stars all night

Every day there’s more than onemany many behind the sunwhether you see them it’s alrightthe moon & the sun & the stars all night.

Whether you see them there’s more than oneThe moon & the sun & the stars all nightmany many behind the sunThe moon & the sun & the stars all night

What is it that is so bright?The moon & the sun & the stars all night.whether you see them it’s alrightThe moon & the sun & the stars all nightThe moon & the sun & the stars all night.

(written for the kids)

Thanks to all you students coming by afterschool to Singing Arrow where we did these

things and thanks to the staff and thanks to theCity of Albuquerque!

Larry Goodell

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SNAKE DON’T BAKE MY CAKE GO BAKE A SNAKE CAKE FOR ANOTHER SILLY SNAKE !

(snake poems written for Singing Arrow kids)

Singing Arrow Poetry

Spring 1999