poems to earth

The Sport

I made up my own sport
but how can I do it?
I don't have a basketball.

The Pumpkin Patch

Did you know  the pumpkin patch
is full of pumpkins?
Except I don't have pumpkins
in mine.
Instead I have balls.
And at Halloween I carve balls.

The Dollar Bird

Did you know that we don't have a mailbox?
Well instead I just call the Dollar Bird.
He gives us our mail
and we read the newspaper.

The Sweater Machine

The sweater machine washes sweaters
did you ever know?
The sweater machine
makes them clean.
And that is how we get our sweaters clean.

The Sheep Mower

Did you ever know
that we didn't have a lawn mower.
We have a sheep mower.
It mows up the grass
and makes pictures in the grass.
We do it to the snow.
We do it to the grass.
We do it to the leaves.
And that is how we get our lawn mowed.

Jimmy the Hippopotomous

Did you ever know that I have
a brother that's a hippotomous
named Jimmy.
Sometimes he cuddles
with his baby hippopotomous
and the hippopotomous bite each other.
They're not very nice.

The Surprise Underpants

Did you ever know
that everything can be a surprise.
And I gave my brother a surprise.
It was
UNDERPANTS!
He threw them away.
My dad screamed at me.

The Homework Machine

Just put your papers
in the homework machine
if you have homework to do.
It will make them clean
and then you can start all over again.
And then you can even
do it with your clothes too.
Especially your pants
and your underpants.

sad e-mail

I got an e-mail from Sophia the day before yesterday.  This a copy of the e-mail because on the real one I spilled water and oil on it.

Now we're going to do the real e-mail.

At the start of the e-mail there was a stamp that had an American flag on it.

Dear Grace,

I hope you're not heartbroken because Vanessa and Mario are heartbroken.  And Nathan has his cell phone calling 9-1-1. And Nathan is wiggling around all over the place trying to get the spider webs off his car and get him uncrashing from the mountain.  I am thinking about putting chocolate melt on the mountains and the spider webs so Nathan can get unstuck. 

I'm sorry to say this, Mario is in time-out.  He was being bad because he missed Nathan.  You might not like this.  Mario is in time-out because he bonked the Wii remote into Vanessa's head on purpose.  And then Vanessa finished his game.  When he got out of time-out, he got really mad because Vanessa finished his game and he wanted to finish his game. 

And Vanessa was running over to the refrigerator.  She opened the refrigerator and I said, "What do you want Vanessa?"  Vanessa said, "I wanted to help you make the chocolate pudding."  I said, "Later we're making the chocolate pudding."  And then it was later and we made some chocolate pudding. 

And then we went and brang brought it to Nathan.  And then Nathan got ready and he drived drove his car to speed.  And then Nathan got to the doctor's office.

I have to go to work now.  See you soon.

Your Friend,
Sophia

Toys

Dear Santa,

How is that cold weather over there in the North Pole?  I am happy that you're going to come this year and I hope you don't sleep too late.  This is Grace writing this.

What I want very much for Christmas is a Lalaloopsy doll.  It looks fun on TV and I have a good imagination for it.  Another thing I want is a pretend donut shop.  I want a donut shop because I have a good memory to tell people what kind of donut it is.  And with it I am hoping for all kinds of different donuts.  My favorite kind is a mint chocolate chip donut.  I want a couple stuffed elves because its Christmas and that's good for the holiday.  Elves are for Christmas.  Santa, I want a beach set too and I want it to come with an umbrella and pretend seashells and pretend sand and a pretend ocean.   It will remind me of summertime and I'm in a beachy mood right now.  I want an Oscar-shaped nutcracker that's green.  For Zara I want a Slimy (like the worm) little chewy toy.  And I want glitter.  I want to make super special crafts sparkly, especially the one I'm sending to Grandma and Grandpa.  I want a cool basketball because Daddy and I will think its cool.  I also want a Backpack doll and a Map doll because I want to have more Dora stuff.

Santa, I hope you have a good trip in the sleigh.  I'll keep my listening ears on when I'm sleeping so I can hear your reindeer.

Love,
Grace

The World is Made of Poems

The Silly Watermelon

I squeezed a watermelon
and there wasn't any juice coming out.
I wonder what happened
to my watermelon?
Perhaps my little sister.


The Nail Polish Dance

I was putting nail polish on my nails
only if you know why.
Perhaps I'm getting ready
for the nail polish dance.
The nail polish dance?
Whoo hoo!
And I danced
at the nail polish dance.


Drippy Ice Cream

I went to the ice cream parlor
to get some ice cream.
When the ice cream parlor
was holding my ice cream
it dripped.
When she was giving it to me
it dripped.
When I was holding it at the table
it dripped.
And when I licked it
it dripped.
Drippy drippy ice cream.


Broken Glass

I was washing a glass at the sink
and I dropped it
and it broke.
Perhaps my mom was mad.
I hit my mom.
(Editor's note: I asked Grace, "Do you want people to read this and think you hit your mom?" to which she replied, "No ... I'll tell them it's just a poem.")


My Puppy Poodle

I had a poodle
and I was walking it.
My poodle screamed at me
and I said, "Shhh,"
and he calmed down.
He was running away
and I said, "Come back,"
and he came back.
He was running in the grass
and I said, "Time to go in,"
and he went in the house.

Great Feast at Little Path

We had a Thanksgiving Feast today at school.  We made pizza.   We got dough and put it in flour and that was the pizza dough we used to make our pizza.  Yum!  We put it on a tray and decorated them with sauce, cheese, pepperoni, peppers and mushrooms.  [Another child] made a pizza but she didn't eat it because she had to leave because she was naughty and her mom made her go home.  I ate her pizza.  It had cheese and mushrooms. I think Mom ate mine and she shared with Zara.  Zara is my little sister.

I taught Zara all about Little Path.  I taught her how to wheel a truck on the floor and walk in Little Path.  And I taught her the days of the week and how to count.  Adeline thought Zara was a cutie.  Zara played with the little truck because I taught her how to wheel it and she just wheeled the big truck a little tiny bit.  When we left Zara went and hung out with Liam right before we went home.

Garbage Town

There was a lady named Annie.  Annie was a very nice girl and she had a best blue hat, and Garbage DeVil came and he threw everything away in everyone's house, even Annie's best hat!  Annie wanted to go outside one day and she needed a hat, and she realized she didn't have any best hat or any hat or coat or gloves to go outside.  Annie said, "Oh my!  I can't go outside.  But I really wish I could in the snow." 

Well, Garbage DeVil was taking a bath and he hopped in the garbage.  And then he hopped in the garbage to sleep.  He opened his eyes all night and his eyes went up to outer space.  Annie was in bed and she was snoring and sleeping and suddenly the garbage walked away.  And the garbage disappeared.  And the garbage walked on every single moon and jumped moon-to-moon.  And there was a giant and his name was Garbage DeVil and Garbage DeVil was green.  And that was who slept in the garbage and took a bath in the garbage.  Suddenly, the garbage slid down a slide.  All that was inside Annie's house was a little tiny drip of a little J-Chew Jelly drip.  When the giant woke up he saw garbage in his tanks! 

Hailey was a very young girl.  And Hailey knocked on the door of Annie's house.  Annie went to the store once and she bought a JoAnn Chocolate and suddenly she saw Garbage DeVil!  And Garbage DeVil took Annie and put her in his garbage tank.  And Annie dropped her chocolate.  And her shiny medal shined on her shirt.  And an earring made of garbage fell off of Garbage DeVil.  Hailey walked away into the neighborhood and there was another very little girl named Maggie and Maggie was Hailey's friend.  And Hailey ran after Maggie, and Maggie's pinky finger was red.  It was a drip, a very little tiny drip, of Annie's jelly from her chin.  And what happened is, it was raining and what was coming down from the rain was chocolate!  Everyone picked up the chocolate and Garbage DeVil put all the chocolate in his garbage tank.  Annie was in the garbage tank and she took her best hat from the garbage tank and tip-toe sneaked to her house.  Suddenly, Annie's mom came to Garbage DeVil and poked him really hard on the belly with a sword and put the sword down his throat and threw it and made sure it collected all his body.  The mom came back to Annie and Annie came back to her mom and they slept in their own beds and Garbage DeVil was no more.  There was no more visiting Garbage DeVil again.

They made a glue craft out of Garbage DeVil's body.

The End.

Movie Getting Watched

Today I went to a movie theatre with Daddy.  We were going on a date.  We went to the movie theatre to watch Nemo.  I brought candy in my purse.  I brought sour worms, gummi bears and I got popcorn at the movie theatre.  In this picture, this is me with my Nemo glasses on pretending to eat a piece of real popcorn.  And that was the popcorn I got at the movie theatre.  I was wearing Nemo glasses so the movie could pop out at my eyes and show that I could just grab it from the cieling.  I had 3D glasses.  The man that made our popcorn and Gatorade was nice because he put lots of butter on my popcorn.  My popcorn tasted good.

Finding Nemo is the one where the mean lady went in the room and the dentist and that mean lady were the villians.  I liked the movie.  My favorite part of the movie was when Marlin and Dory got eaten by the whale.  They fell off the tongue.  I thought that was funny. 

I was really happy at the movies because I liked the movie and Dad did too.  But Dad had to give his glasses back and I could keep them.