Our Favorite New Toy? (Group Poem)
Remember when NSYNC was cool, (Hannah)
And girls ruled while boys drooled?
Remember Sesame Street’s Oscar the Grouch, (Jess)
And Loonette the Clown in the Big Comfy Couch?
Remember Mr. Rogers and his trains, (Kevin)
And our friends Arthur, D.W., Buster, and Brain
Whom we never thought we would leave? (Sam)
Well, Bye, Bye, Bye, because now,
Instead of Goodnight Moon,
it’s Goodnight iPad, Twitter, and Facebook ‘til June.
Goodbye Peter Pan. Hello Big Brother.
No more nightlights or monsters under the bed
Now it’s six hours of sleep instead.
No more playing in snow and sipping cocoa
We’re always in a hurry to go, go, go
We always wanted to grow up so fast
And never even bothered to look back.
But time and life don’t stand still.
People will always invent the next big thing
That will replace the iPhone, Twitter, and more
We don’t know what the future will bring,
But one thing we know for sure:
Our favorite new toy will become an ancient artifact (All)
Now What Do I Do? (Misc. Poem - S. Bell & H. Lombardo)
Mom: ARE YOU UP YET?
IT'S TEN OF SEVEN!
Child: YEAH!
Mom: (aside)
You roll out of bed and grab your lunch,
Toast, juice box, and water
That I make for you every day.
Child: BYE
Mom: HAVE A GOOD DAY!
TEXT ME IF YOU NEED ANYTHING!
Child: I WILL
Mom: (aside)
Now you're at school,
And I patiently wait
until the end of your busy day.
It's 4-o'clock, you're running a bit late...
(texting)
WHAT'S YOUR PLAN?
THOUGHT YOU'D BE HOME BY NOW.
Child: (texting)
I'M LEAVING NOW.
Mom: (aside)
You assure me you got caught up
Helping some kid or working out
After workouts ended.
I hear your car, now the door.
HOW WAS SCHOOL AND SOFTBALL?
Child: NOTHING NEW, JUST ANOTHER NORMAL DAY.
Mom: (aside)
I already knew that, but I ask everyday anyway.
Now you're doing homework;
You always have too much of that stuff.
DINNER'S READY WHEN YOU WANT IT!
Child: I’LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE!
Mom: (aside)
You come racing down;
You're always so hungry.
Next thing I know it's 12-o'clock,
And you're still doing homework.
ARE YOU ALMOST DONE?
Child: YEAH, I'LL BE DONE SOON.
Mom: (aside)
You tell me you're almost done,
But we both know you're just saying that so I'll go to bed.
It doesn't work.
It's 1-o'clock, now you're done.
Child: GOODNIGHT!
Mom: BRUSH YOUR TEETH AND GO TO BED.
SEE YOU IN THE MORNING.
(aside)
But this morning, you weren't here.
You're off going through your busy days without me.
Now what do I do?
Green-Eyed Monster (Individual Poem - K. Chan)
Oh Green-Eyed Monster, why do you exist in this world?
You’ve destroyed lovers, families, cities, kingdoms, countries,
Yet you’re still allowed to survive?
An atrocity manifested within human societies with no hopes of reformation,
A pandemic that plagues the Earth with no cure,
A wicked demon unable to be chained back to hell,
A Green-Eyed Monster.
How can something so small cause so much heartache?
You are like trash rotting around my soul,
Fuming noxious gases that spread like wildfire,
Clouding the judgement of my brain
Leaving an aftertaste of gloom and despair;
You are like toxic waste, eroding through the layers of my heart,
Poisoning my body with your lustful chemicals,
Destroying everything you touch;
You are like a virus, injecting your own DNA to change my own,
Changing me into a monster I am not,
Changing me into a beast I cannot tame,
Slowly traveling through my bloodstream,
Releasing your evil at every organ,
Bursting through the pores of my skin until I explode!
Why!?
Oh why!?
Celery.
Why do you exist in our world if you only cause misery.
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