PERSPIRATION

I'm hot
and 
I'm sweaty.
My body 
is aglow.
I'm 
the 
stinkiest
kid
I know.

       Sorry for this smelly poem today, but I just couldn't help myself.  Oh, it is so much fun to feel just a little bit naughty.  Your challenge for today is to write about a smell.
Theodore Roethke, wrote about a "congress of stinks," in his poem about the Root Cellar. Sylvia Plath wrote, "our noses/ Take hold of the loam" in describing Mushrooms in her poem.  So how would you describe a smell?  Have fun writing and playing with words.

MY NEW RED SWEATSHIRT

Dad bought me 
a sweatshirt
when we went 
to the game.
It's warm 
and it's red
and has 
the team's name.

I wore it to school.
I wore it to play.
For a week I wore it
everyday.

Mom said, "This 
needs washing,
it's started to stink."
Now my socks
and my undies
are all colored
PINK!


     There is still time to enter your name in the drawing for a copy of GUESS WHO'S IN THE DESERT, Chaline Profiri's new rhyming riddle book about the desert.