Unlock the Alphabet Poem

4/23/2013

Start a poem with a word that begins with the letter 'A', moving along the alphabet (English, please) for each successive word. The poem must follow these directions and must make sense somehow.

For example -
All brown cows dive Enigmatically
Forward, going
Heavy into jumps,
Kaleidoscopic.

That's A through K. How far can you get?

(The first student who gets to Z will receive a starbucks gift card and a 'Do Good Lottery' ticket !! Remember, poetry can be abstract, but good poetry always makes sense somehow...your poem must make sense - this means you may be asked to provide an explanation !)

24 Comments

Rayne McCoy

4/24/2013 09:50:04 am

All brown cats descend,
Elaborately from goats,
Having intense jurisdiction.
Killing lilac muffins,
Not opening potatoes.
Quietly ransacking soggy tacos,
Under vaporized waters.
Xraying yellow zebras

Tanabe

4/25/2013 07:18:35 am

Rayne
I think this works for the most, except that last line. It is hanging on its own, but it doesn't make sense by itself. Did you intend that, and if so, explain!

Rayne McCoy

4/25/2013 08:02:40 am

Okay so the cats that descended from goats, while they were killing lilac muffins they were also xraying yellow zebras because zebras normally arent yellow. I was going to add more going back to Y and so on, but i didnt know if i could.

Tanabe

4/25/2013 08:09:21 am

Cool. The prize is yours! You can claim it tomorrow.

Amber Hari

4/26/2013 02:47:34 am

A big cat died early from gangrene held in Jessie's knee. Life means nothing opening packages quietly resting sadly there under valiant wastebaskets.

Tanabe

4/26/2013 03:35:55 am

Hilarious!

Eric Jeon

4/28/2013 01:52:21 pm

All Black. Crushes, Devoures,
Eats Fire. Great Heads
Insults, Jests. Knocks Loudly
Malicious Names. Obliterates Planets
Quickly Ravages. Spreads Terror
Unlimited, Violent. Wails, Xyloid
Yells, Zealous
translation: a black monster with wood like skin. It has a large head and devours all in its path. It destroys all hope, laughs at its victims, and it eats fire.

Taslima Sidhu

4/28/2013 03:17:52 pm

Example:http://manassas.k12.va.us/round/classweb/slough/poetry/abc.htm

"Snowflakes

Astonishingly beautiful
Cold, darting
Exciting frost
Graceful heavens
Icy jewels
Keen lace
Majestic needles of pretty, quiet,
Raining snow
Turning under
Vibrant Winds
Xciting,
yearly
Zany"

This asked for a lot of thinking:D

Tanabe

5/9/2013 03:34:44 pm

Taslima, you're a terrible cheat!

Courtney Lutz

5/1/2013 02:16:19 am

A bright color darkens enevitable failure. Giving hue; injecting jagged kisses; leaving mourns neglected; only purfuming quietly remains smelling torchourusly undernieth vague, watered-down xcellence, yelling zealessly, a burried carcus drownding endless failure.

It's a little more than you asked for but 26 words wasnt enough:P

tom janssen

5/2/2013 04:07:38 pm

A Big Cover Disk, Enlarged For Grotesquely Humorous Isles, Jammed Karma Largo's Moon Night Out. Pausing, Quiet Ravens Snatched Terrifically Under Valor, Xylophone York's Zebra

Claire Zielinski link

5/8/2013 10:51:59 am

After
breakfast
clifford
decided
entertaining
frank
got
him
into
jacks
knight
letters
mailed
not
only
past
queen
roses
son
tracking
under
valor
winning
xippa york
zealotry

Matthew Conover

5/8/2013 12:24:59 pm

Abigale began chewing dried elastic fruit
gorse her intuition jabbed
kiwi looked more nutritious
over powered queens rise storms to usher very
dry elastic kiwi to an early grave

Well maybe if I took a few years I could come up with an ending that stuck to the parameters but I tried to get it as far a possible, I must add it is quite weird looking back at how it progressed.

Tanabe

5/9/2013 03:36:11 pm

Nice. I like the dried elastic fruit.

Tim hays

5/8/2013 01:58:46 pm

Adam brought cans dripping elastic freely grossly heavily into junk knobs laminating monsterous narrow openings pricking quiet somehow through unthinkable volts within x-ray yelling zippers

Tanabe

5/9/2013 03:37:55 pm

"monstrous narrow"...I think that's an oxymoron! And poetic, indeed.

katherine patterson

5/9/2013 11:32:35 am

anne bought cats. deadly, evil felines. gave honey in jacket-fulls. katie loved meat. not only pork-quails, rather sweet turkey. unbelievable venison. with x-rayed yorkies (and) zucchini.

Tanabe

5/9/2013 03:39:01 pm

This is totally awesome in so many ways.

Taslima Sidhu

5/13/2013 05:45:28 am

Tanabe, you have to give it to me, its smart too!

Nick Wolfert

5/18/2013 06:06:26 pm

All belief can dramatically expunge feuds
Gravely heightening intimidating jeopardy.
Killing lovely monologues notably objective,
Perpetually quenching redundant, senseless thirst
Uninterestingly vanquishing woes (of)
Xenophobic youthful zeitgeist.

Ashli Penrose

5/19/2013 12:24:45 pm

I'm gonna be nerdy...These are People/Aliens/Machines/Planets in Doctor Who.

Amy Pond
Brian Williams
Clara Oswald
Doctor
Earth
Fifty years
Great Intelligence
Hello Sweetie
Ice Warriors
Jenny Flint
Kovarian
Lucy Saxon
Melody Pond
Novice Hame
Ood
Ponds
Queen Elizabeth 1
Rory Pond
Strax
TARDIS
UNIT
Vastra
Weeping Angels
Xylok
Yeti
Zygons

Rachelle Austin

5/21/2013 11:38:47 am

astoundingly big creatures
dominating Earth
forests, grass, harmony in journeys
kin leptoceratops
munching noisily on plants
quiet raptors sneak towards
unseen
vicious war

Julia Fegles

5/23/2013 02:51:52 pm

"Rabid Animals"

Angry bees cut dogs.
Elephants fight giraffes.
Hawks in Jamacia kill leopards.
Many newts often punch quails.
Raideers spit toxins.
Universally, venomous whales x-tinguish young zebras.

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10/13/2013 01:55:30 am

Real success comes in small portions day by day. You need to take pleasure in life's daily little treasures. It is the most important thing in measuring success.

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