S’s for Starry and Saanwariya |#AtoZChallenge

Greetings!

Today is a busy day for the Sea Captain. Got me some translation work to conquer. Funny though how this reflects on my blog post.

How? for the A to Z challenge today we got the letter S, and my kids love this letter so much, that they gave me many poems beginning with it.

Too bad I had to choose only 3, more than that and the post will explode, especially that....I too got me 2 cinquains to display :)

Me and my students would like to take your royal highnesses in a trip that visits Disney characters, white winters, starry, starry nights spend in high towers  and even some romance!

Ready? Here we go :D

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Snow

White, bright

Freezing, melting, repeating

Comes in only one season

Freeze

By Gwan Hatim

Teacher’s note: this one almost made it to top 3 in my cinquain poem competition, Gwan’s quite the artistic type, in fact during this year she learned crochet, made great progress in her drawing and now she writes poetry! Maybe this is the second poem for her on my blog but  she wrote plenty more, time for a book don’t  you think :)

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Shriek

Harmful, ugly

Saving, destroying, loving

Both good and bad

Patient 

By Ahmed Khalid, 4D

Teacher’s note: Ahmed Khalid is a favorite student of mine, serious and clever, I love his poem because of the depth it shows, how he captured the sole of our Green Ugly adored Ogre.

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Stars

Bright, cute

Lighting, shining, glowing

Change sadness to happiness

Diamonds

By Fatima Abdalla, 4B

Teacher’s note: a beautiful poem by Fatima who proved she was paying attention during my lesson, I used Stars=Diamonds to teach them metaphor and here you have it.

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My Hero!
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Sharkboy

Small, brave

 biting, helping, swimming

he lives inside the ocean

kind

by Al-basil Mohamed,

Mazin Rashid

and Luther Louis Mark, 4A

The making of a hero
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Teacher’s note: I’m a Sharkboy fan, and this sweet little poem is a cute tribute. Again we got winner 3 Mazin Rashid, along with his friend Luther and under the supervision of one of the smartest boys in school Al-Basil, this trio has it all, and more poems that is enough to form a poetry collection.

Hey! I should be seriously thinking about making that happen (eyes shining with excitement staring into the horizon...or the wall).

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Now My poems.

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Starry

Starry night

aboard the clock tower

well-lit. ..flying over a

minaret

The representation of peace

Lighthouses, clock towers and minarets, all I find very charming.

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SRK as Mohan in Swades

Saanwariya

Who I

Rest my dreams

On his silver armor

My love.

Gayatri as Gita singing Saanwariya to her absent lover Mohan

Saanwariya? (my love) is a Hindi word I learned while watching the Bollywood movie Swades (one of Sharukh Khan’s best roles, and you all know how a big fan I am).

It is a song that Gita (Gayatri Joshi ) sings while waiting for her lover Mohan ‘SRK’ to return from a work trip. Very beautiful and relaxing, the whole film is, filled with homesickness (my name), empowering women, innocent love and respect for cultures and elders and way more.

Hope you enjoyed today’s poems.

See you next time! 

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Cinquain is a non-rhyming 5-lined poem pioneered by Adelaide Crapsey (1878 - 1914). There are many ways to write it, weather relaying on the number of words or syllables in each line, which makes it always end up in a diamond-like shape. In this A to Z challenge I will be following the two and sometimes a mix of both types. I’ll also add some cute cinquains by my grade 4 talented students. Hope you enjoy our poetry.