Purple Cabbage!

This week, the Belding classes read from Wallace Stevens' poem, Someone Puts a Pineapple Together, and looked at a pineapple as they read. We tried to see the images Stevens describes--everything from a volcano to an owl--and then came up with a few images of our own.

Afterwards, we wrote our own imagining poems, using a purple cabbage as inspiration. Read some of the wonderful examples below!

from Mr. Merrill's class:

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Bird and Beetle Volcano

by Arnel K.

I see a bird trying to find a beetle for food.

I saw a beetle in a house,
a volcano making lava,
a fish's tail moving left and right.

I see finre come at a flamethrower,
a purple dog walking alone.

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Cabbage

by Justine F.

It looks like
water and a
plant and it's like
our backbone and
that gill and
the white fin moving,
and how it peels
it looks like a sink
and a heart that
stays.

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The Cabbage

by Sadie C.

I saw an ancient art of the past.
I see a turtle with six legs praying.
I see scars of the dragon.
The back is a bug with hard skin.
The back is a person sticking out its tongue.
The sun is setting beyond the sea.
I see veins rushing blood.
Someone is climbing to live.
A fish is suffocating on dry land.
A light is shining on a turtle.
A fire is burning a house.
Hands are grabbing a baby.

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From Mrs. Navrocki's class

Things I see in the Cabbage

by Anthony G.

I see in the cabbage a
head. A brain too.
It looks like a ball. It looks like
a globe. A hand-held fan. A leaf,
trees, a pineapple, sand, birds flying
everywhere.

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The Things I see in a Purple Cabbage

by Lio N.

I see a purple cabbage
I see an angel flying
it is coming out
I also see a turtle
he is swimming in the ocean.
The last thing I see is a
little kid sleeping under
a little blanket.
I imagine me tinier than a bug
I am taking a trip inside it.
I am sinking in a purple whirlpool
I am playing bowling with it
I only get strikes and spares
My final score was 300.

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What can I see in a Cabbage?

Rianne P.

In this cabbage I see an angel flying.
I see a purple turtle moving across the sea.
I see a plant sprouting in the sea.
I see an octopus with eight long eyes.
I see a seagull flying across the world.
I could run around in the cabbage.
I can swim in the purple whirlpool.
I see a spiral like in a notebook.
I see a clam when I put it together and open it.
When I eat it it will spin in my body.
When it is closed it looks like an avocado seed.

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from Mr. Aivazian's class

Rabbit Eating Cabbage

I see a rabbit running at a piece of
cabbage. I see cabbage
floating on a huge wave out
a surfer caught the veggie. All
at once a shark ate the
food. I grab the food.