After a night of lashing rain and crashing thunder it was a
surprise to wake up to sun and stillness. I walked along the beach and shut my
eyes to hear the world (I am doing a workshop with blind students soon so I
keep doing this). The sea was mild - just licking the shore. There were
squawking gulls, cheeping dottorel and beeping oyster catchers.
It is holiday time so I am keen to post poems and letters by
children every day. See Friday 19th April post for some suggestions by
myself and by Bill Manhire. But really -- for the next two weeks Poetry Box is
like a blank canvas on which you can write. This invitation is open for
students up to Year 8. Send your writing to paulajoygreen@gmail.com. Include
your name, age, year and name of school.
Happy days writing poems!
Sylvia O is 12 and goes to Parnell District School
in Auckland. She sent me this poem with a little note whch I have included. I
have read The Hunger Games trilogy and really loved each book so it was
a delight to read this poem. I think it is really inventive (and well proof
read!). I love the way she has used details from the story and I love the
methods in her recipe. I am sure Suzanne Collins would be tickled pink to read
this! Great job Sylvia!
Here is a recipe poem. I know you finished that ages ago, but I just wanted to send
it to you anyway. My name is Sylvia O. I am a Year 8, age 12. Just in case you
haven't read the books I will explain a few things. Primrose and Rue were too
characters Katniss loved in the books. Prim was her sister, and Katniss loved
Rue like a sister. Katniss declared lamb and plum stew as her
favourite thing in the Capitol which is why that's there. And there are
thirteen districts which is why I have made thirteen instructions. Okay, here
it is, and I will thank you in advance for examining it:
The Hunger Games
Ingredients:
MockingJay food-colouring
Three brutalities
Four cups of love
Five cups of sadness
Five cups of fighting
Six cups of stories and memories
One teaspoon of Rue
A dried primrose
1. Take the sadness and capture it by putting a cool surface
near it. Take three drops of it to use for later. Then store the rest in the
freezer so it condenses overnight.
2.Take one love and add three tea-spoons of water to it. Mix
with a wooden spoon until it is fluffy. Add a teaspoon of Mocking-Jay food
colouring.
3.Take the fighting and mix with the love until it is right
through.
4. Separate the quotes from the stories and memories. Whisk the
memories and stories then put into the love and fighting. We will use the
quotes later.
5. Take the brutalities and crush to a very fine powder using a
mortar and pestle. Put the brutalities into the Rue.
6. Take the dried primrose and crush it. Sprinkle it all over
the Rue.
7.Then put it in the bowl with the love and mix.
8. Put it in the freezer and wait overnight.
9. The next morning, add the three droplets of sadness to the
quotes.
10. Take out the sadness and the bowl. The hunger games inside
the bowl would have turn into ice if it is ready.
11. Wash the contents of the bowl with the sadness.
12. Take out the quotes and put them in a small bowl for dips.
13. Eat. The Hunger Games tastes good with the quotes but not
with every bite because then it doesn't have any effect. Please also note that
the Hunger Games tastes good with lamb and plum stew.
Paula
Green
PO
Box 95078 Swanson Waitakere 0653
1 comment:
What a wonderful idea. I like the 'Hunger Games' poem - it's very touching.
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