Yesterday I visited with fine young poets from Esperanza Elementary School in Phoenix AZ. This is a picture of the Princess of Poetry with their teacher Ken Slesarik. We had a grand time learning former children's poet laureate Jack Prelutsky's poem EYEBALLS FOR SALE from his book Pizza the Size of the Sun. We made up our own manticores (a mythical beast with the head of a lion, the body of a human and the tail of a dragon or scorpion) and then wrote poems about them. With the children's help I made a beaversaurus with the head of a beaver, the body of a boy, legs of a horse and the tail of a dinosaur. We decided to call it a beaversaures and called it Mr. S. after their teacher.
So here is my lame picture of the beaversaures.
MY MANTICORE
Mr. S is my beaversaures.
He likes singing
in the school chorus.
He sings high.
He sings low.
He sings poems
where ever he goes.
(More verses to follow.)
Have fun making your own manticore and writing a poem about it. You can use your five senses to find things to tell about your creature.
