Reading and Writing Rhyming Poems The American poet

Reading and Writing Rhyming Poems

The American poet Kenn Nesbitt has written a series of rhyming poems about everybody's new favourite subject… FOOD! Read some of his poems on the next slides…

I‘m Absolutley Full Tonight I’m absolutely full tonight. I couldn’t eat another bite. I couldn’t eat a half a bean, or even taste a tangerine. I couldn’t lick a lettuce leaf or bite the slightest bit of beef. I couldn’t polish off a pea or sip a single drop of tea or nibble on a nanogram of pickled ham or candied yam or lamb or clam or jam or Spam. Yes, that’s how full I truly am. To even think of eating more would leave me lying on the floor and surely make my stomach hurt unless, of course, you’ve got dessert.

Chocolate For Breakfast Chocolate for breakfast. Chocolate for lunch. Chocolate for dinner. Chocolate for brunch. Chocolate on Saturday, chocolate on Sunday, and nothing but chocolate the whole day on Monday. On Tuesday and Wednesday it’s chocolate galore. On Thursday and Friday I eat even more. I know it’s not healthy; that’s totally clear. But, still, I go nuts in November each year. And there’s not a fruit or a veggie in sight at least for a week after Halloween night.

When Larry Made Lasagna When Larry made lasagna all his neighbors stopped and stared. His lasagna was the largest that had ever been prepared. He used ninety yards of pasta and a half a ton of cheese, and the sauce, he spread with spatulas that looked a lot like skis. With a hundred pounds of vegetables and wagon-loads of meat plus a tiny sprig of parsley his lasagna was complete. So he lifted that lasagna with a forklift and a crane and he placed it in an oven that was longer than a train. For a week, while it was baking, its aroma filled the town, till he took it from the oven piping hot and golden brown. All the neighbors came and tasted it but frowned at him, and then they complained, “It needs a bit more salt. You’ll have to start again. ”

My Lunch A candy bar. A piece of cake. A lollipop. A chocolate shake. A jelly donut. Chocolate chips. Some gummy worms and licorice whips. A candy cane. A lemon drop. Some bubblegum and soda pop. Vanilla wafers. Cherry punch. My mom slept in while I made lunch.

Now its your turn… Can you write your own rhyming food poem? Ken has some steps to help you…

Find a piece of paper or use your exercise book… • First: make a list of 4 sports e. g. basketball, football etc. • Next make a list of 4 different lots of foods (making sure you pick foods names that rhyme e. g. steak and cake, ham and jam, custard and mustard) We’ve attached a list of rhyming foods to help at the end! • Then add a food to each sport using the word ‘with’ in the middle e. g. Basketball with cake • Football with ham. • After that re arrange your lines so the rhyming foods are on the 2 nd and 4 th lines e. g. Hockey with cheese. Basketball with cake. Baseball with pizza. Football with steak.

• Then write an ending with 2 lines e. g. Playing with your food is really lots of fun. • Next choose a word that rhymes with the last word in each of these two lines e. g. food-rude • Finally add both parts of your poem together: Hockey with cheese. Basketball with cake. Baseball with pizza. Football with steak. This is really very rude You should never play with your food! Just have a go and see what you come up with!

• Rhyming food words • Artichoke / Coke / egg yolk • Baloney / cannelloni / macaroni / minestrone / pepperoni Beans / greens / nectarines / sardines / tangerines • Beet / meat / sweet / treat / wheat • Beef / leaf • Berry / cherry • Bread / sandwich spread • Brussels sprout / sauerkraut / trout • Burritos / Doritos • Cake / shake / steak • Cheese / peas • Chicken legs / eggs • Chicken wings / onion rings • Chip / dip / licorice whip • Clam / ham / jam / lamb / Spam • Crepe / grape • Crumb / gum / plum • Coffee / toffee • Cookie dough / sloppy joe • Custard / mustard • Fries / pies • Fruits / roots / shoots • Gummi bears / pears • Ice / rice / spice Lemon drops / lollipops Lime / thyme Noodle / strudel Pastrami / salami Roast / toast