My family is a spice cabinet
My Dad is the garlic that you can taste through the strongest foods
My brother is the cayenne pepper that even the slightest taste is too much
My Mom is sugar that can turn any desert into a happy ending
And I am the parsley that you can never have enough of
And when you put us all together
We make a dinner and dessert fit for a king
Monster
Three years old
A little boy comes home
A day of watching and exploring behind him
Walks in the door
Buzzing like a bee sounds surround the room
The boy walking
To see what it was
A monster
A blue chest fading into green wings
A long needle like nose
The boy
Becomes a bullet
In search for his mom
Nothing
Running back to see where she was
Half way there
Blocked
Like a gate blocking intruders
Stopped looking up
Seeing his mom
Relieved
Showing his mom the Monster
His Mom laughing
The boy’s imagination had taking control
And the monster
Became a humming bird
Freeing the bird
Out of its cage
As it flew away
I could hear him thanking us
9 comments ↓
I love the poem Monster! Great job, I felt scared for the little boy before he knew the monster was only a hummingbird.
Great job!
Great job! I really liked the poem Monster. It made me feel sorry for the scared boy and I laughed when he found out it really wasn’t a monster.
I am really like sugar - VERY SWEET!!! It was a good poem besides that slight oversight.
Wow! Loved them both! Spice cabinet made me laugh out loud. Monster was charming and sweet. It’s nice how one’s mother always seems to make life’s picture clearer and not so scary and that a 7th grader still knows this.
I love the monster poem. I felt sorry for the booy when he was scared and I laughed when he found out it was a hummingbird! Great job!
great spice poem!
Your poem was fantastic! I like the way that you described your family with the different kinds of spices in a spice cabinet using metaphors. I especially like this line is your poem - “My Mom is sugar that can turn any dessert into a happy ending”. Well done!
i liked how the monster turned in to a hummingbird…
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