Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Snakes in the Grass

In school this morning Tate was assigned to write a poem.
He didn't think it would go well.
He was wrong.

Tate being Tate, this is what I got :D


Snakes in the Grass

Little snakes in the grass
Slither quickly, slither fast.
Should an eagle get you
You would be the past.

Quickly now
There is need to rush!

An eagle swoops
An eagle dives,
Quickly, slither for your lives!

Talons gleam
Little snakes scream
And dive for the brush.
All in a rush
the eagle flies away -
nothing but thorns today.

10 comments:

Cathy M. said...

Thanks for sharing that. I love it! What talented young'uns you have.

leah said...

Hey, that's really good! Tate has a lot of artistic talent- with his drawings and with his words!

Ruby said...

I like it...I like it a lot!

melanie said...

I do NOT like snakes, thank you ~ But I DO like Tate's poem =)

Herding Grasshoppers said...

I'm with you, Melanie! And he's got three of them in a bucket in the back yard. He's promised to return them to the wild tomorrow. In the meantime he's trying to convince me that the tiny one, with the red stripes (instead of the usual yellow) is "cute".

Well, not by MY definition of "cute"! But interesting...

Anonymous said...

LOVE this. A Dr. Seuss in the making. :) -Uncle Dave

Choate Family said...

Well done! Must be the combination of a great teacher and the gene pool :-)

Jena Webber said...

As I writing teacher, I give him an A+!! Good job!

Now you need to frame it with a picture of a snake and the date. Great job.

Gramma Grasshopper said...

Okay, I'm getting in on this a little late.......but the POEM IS GOOD. Better, I think, than I could do. Now let's work on TOPIC :)!

The dB family said...

What a great poem! Love it!

Blessings!
Deborah