More poetry time

After a terribly hectic time at school I had, now the time has come to slow down a bit. The school inspection carried out by Very Important Authorities is over, I’m done with the paperwork I hate and finally I am able to take a deeper breath and come back to what I’m enjoying the most – teaching!

These days I’m giving the lessons on the unreal past to my students and I’m sure you know they are having a hard time with all these ‘wishes’ and ‘if onlys’, ‘would rathers’ and ‘as ifs’… To make things easier, I prepared a powerpoint presentation about expressing regrets – now when I have a digital projector in my classroom I can do all the stuff I haven’t been able before!!! As a closing activity, in order to revise grammar terminology and different grammar structures, I had my students write a short poem. The format is really simple and it goes as follows:

1. Noun

2. Adjective + and + adjective

3. Verb + adverb

4. Like or as

5. If only or I wish

Some students strictly stuck to the format, some of them didn’t, but it was ok – they were imaginative and creative and that was what I wanted.

Let me share some of them with you:

Life
Crazy and unpredictable
Rushing madly
Like a natural phenomenon
If only I could know the answers to all the questions

Life
Long and short
Going desperately
Like a crazy clock
If only I could turn back the time


Life
both black and white
clinging to the happiness left
like a trout against the stream
If only we could fly!

Play station
Gripping and fun
So excellent
Like Megan Fox
If only I had money for it

An old wise man
Experienced by life and marked with its scars
Persistently trying to pass down his wisdom
Like a book trying to make us live with dignity
If only I had listened to him when I could

Friends
False and trustless
Lying with every step they take
Like the worst enemy
If only people didn’t lie…

Bums
drunk and stinking
sitting desperately
like a tree in the forest
If only I could help them.

The suicide
Potent and painful
Hoping naively
Like an eternal oblivion
If only she had known what you feel for her

The assassin
Strong and infallible
Killing cruelly
Like his inviolable faith
If only he knew Allah had never called his name

Heart
True and false
Loving desperately
Like a young lover
If only I had understood that!

And this is something especially for us ;D

Teachers
Smart and friendly
Teaching so quickly
Like a fastest car
If only I had my own petrol station!