Only questions

This week at Belding, students read excerpts from Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions, and discussed how a poem that is composed only of questions changes the dialogue between writer and reader. Students then wrote their own 'only questions' poems--read some of their work below.

From Mr. Merrill's class:

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by Jesus

What if lightning could follow you?
What if a car wants to eat you?
What if hair could blind you?

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World of Questions

by Anthony

What if clocks were stomachs?
What if turtles were baskets?
What if sawdust was a T.V.?
What if a desk was a human?

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by Caleb

Is my head shaped like a chili bowl?
Do I talk like a robot?
Do I have chicken legs?
What if people had chicken legs?
Is my neck long like a goose?
Is it!?! Can it
happen!?! Tell me
Tell me!!!

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from Mr. Aivazian's class:

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By Warren B.

Where do children work at? What do tree frogs
eat? Where does rain come from? How many
computers are at schools and libraries?
Where is a hotel at?

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by Daniella G.

Is now is winter in Peru?

How come this squirrel?

Do you eat food of U.S.?

Where live animal?

How the teachers learn to children?

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The World Go Blue

by Zachary

What would they
do if the world
go blue blue?

What if they
run out of
black what
would the night
do?

What would you do
if all the people
go fool fool?

What would you do
if the whole world
go do do from the
flu flu?

What would you do
if your mom fell
in to the blues?

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from Ms. Navrocki's class

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Why did the person take
the petals off?

If I'm buried underground, but
why am I still talking?

What bird takes lemons from
a lemon tree?

In spring in France where are
the leaves?

Are the roots in the ground?

Do we use mustard to make
bread?

Is a tomato a fruit?

Why o we have a
radio when we can read
the newspaper?

Does a catfish look like
a cat?

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by Rianne

1. If you insert numbers into a calculator,
then what are the telephones for?

2. Why are birds just sitting in a nest,
when they can just sit in a kangaroo's pouch?

3. Scientists know which mammal lives in a nest,
but instead of reading it in a newspaper, just put it in
the headlines?

4. Since Earth is a circle,
then what are the other planets' shapes?

5. If cows moo, then why when we go to a farm
they're silent?

6. If jellyfish sting others, then when they are on the
shore they still sting us?

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Wierd Questions

by Nathaniel T.

Food:
What would happen
if the bees would make
lemons rather than honey?

Does a brown cow
make chocolate milk?

Flying:
Will a flying
squirrel fly like
a bird?

Is a flying
fish real?

Weather:
Will a duck ride a bike
in the rain?

Will a camel live in snow
and a penguin live in the
desert?

Alike:
Is a platypus
half beaver and
half duck?

Is a lobster and
a crayfish the
same thing?