A Poem by Max

Recently, I taught some poetry writing workshop lessons to Max's third grade class. It's been awhile since teaching elementary school kids, especially those under the age of 10.  I forgot what it was like to have a gaggle of little people follow you around the room itching to read their creative work or to motivate little boys who would rather play with dust bunnies than write. Such enthusiasm--with high schoolers, they would much rather talk to each other than to me--these little guys were buzzing with creativity and excitement over writing poetry.  

One of Max's assignments was to write a poem about something at home and to write to the something--be it an object or an event or even a person. Dabble in personification. So he decided to write about Briggs....

Briggs [all about my brother]

by Maxwell Maynor

Fall 2010

Briggs

you are loving

you are kind

you are smart

in the mind.

You are funny

You are kind

You are kinda

Weird sometimes.

I love you very much

So I won’t take a chance

And get you into trouble

When you do your piggy dance.