TRAVELLING with Lenka: Trip with Flip - my 1st own poetry book!

Hello my dear friends:)

how are you? I would like to show you today something very special! I made my own poetry book! :) A week ago Raquel gave us assignment to work on own poetry book and to create our final book on the page Storybird.com, which is a perfect page for creating stories!

check it: www.storybird.com

There is sooo many of beautiful paintings and drawings for children stories. You just need to choose an illustrator for your book and have a good idea for a story!

From my childhood I like adventurous stories, with mystical circumstances, and also detective ones. So I decided for a story like this. I created a main character - very cute elephant, who is trying to get to a place he is dreaming about. He heard many of interesting comments about this place and about the circle he is interested in the most. So we will see in the book how he travelled.

We were also supposed to use different kinds of poems:

a list poem

a riddle poem

a letter poem

and haiku.

A list poem gets its name from the fact that most of the poem is made up of a long list of things. List poems usually have a list in the middle, plus a few lines at the beginning and a few lines at the end.Two famous list poems are “Bleezer´s Ice Cream" by Jack Prelutsky and “Sick" by Shel Silverstein.

Bleezer's Ice Cream

by Jack Prelutsky

I am Ebenezer Bleezer,

I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE,

there are flavors in my freezer

you have never seen before,

twenty-eight divine creations

too delicious to resist,

why not do yourself a favor,

try the flavors on my list:

COCOA MOCHA MACARONI

TAPIOCA SMOKED BALONEY

CHECKERBERRY CHEDDAR CHEW

CHICKEN CHERRY HONEYDEW

TUTTI-FRUTTI STEWED TOMATO

TUNA TACO BAKED POTATO

LOBSTER LITCHI LIMA BEAN

MOZZARELLA MANGOSTEEN

ALMOND HAM MERINGUE SALAMI

YAM ANCHOVY PRUNE PASTRAMI

SASSAFRAS SOUVLAKI HASH

SUKIYAKI SUCCOTASH

BUTTER BRICKLE PEPPER PICKLE

POMEGRANATE PUMPERNICKEL

PEACH PIMENTO PIZZA PLUM

PEANUT PUMPKIN BUBBLEGUM

BROCCOLI BANANA BLUSTER

CHOCOLATE CHOP SUEY CLUSTER

AVOCADO BRUSSELS SPROUT

PERIWINKLE SAUERKRAUT

COTTON CANDY CARROT CUSTARD

CAULIFLOWER COLA MUSTARD

ONION DUMPLING DOUBLE DIP

TURNIP TRUFFLE TRIPLE FLIP

GARLIC GUMBO GRAVY GUAVA

LENTIL LEMON LIVER LAVA

ORANGE OLIVE BAGEL BEET

WATERMELON WAFFLE WHEAT

I am Ebenezer Bleezer,

I run BLEEZER'S ICE CREAM STORE,

taste a flavor from my freezer,

you will surely ask for more.

Sick

by Shel Silverstein

"I cannot go to school today,"

Said little Peggy Ann McKay.

"I have the measles and the mumps,

A gash, a rash and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,

I'm going blind in my right eye.

My tonsils are as big as rocks,

I've counted sixteen chicken pox

And there's one more--that's seventeen,

And don't you think my face looks green?

My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--

It might be instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,

I'm sure that my left leg is broke--

My hip hurts when I move my chin,

My belly button's caving in,

My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,

My 'pendix pains each time it rains.

My nose is cold, my toes are numb.

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,

I hardly whisper when I speak.

My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,

My temperature is one-o-eight.

My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

There is a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?

What's that? What's that you say?

You say today is. . .Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

A riddle poem is a written poem that has a hidden subject or an agenda and a double meaning that one need to read and interpret. A riddle poem needs concentration and careful thinking when reading it, so as to get the hidden meaning properly.

I really like these ones:

I am a green ball that doesn’t bounce
After I’ve been popped from my green house.
I’m good to eat, but not with a fork;
I’d help teach the alphabet if I could talk.
What am I?

U can leave me your answer in a comment ;)

A letter poem is a poem in form of a letter. I enjoyed this letter poem, called LETTER TO MR.STOMACH:

Dear Mr. Stomach

I am writing to let you know you give me headache.

I have fed you in bulk,

But you never get full you are like 1 million water tank.

The ancestors craved and never satisfied theirs,

They went, still fighting for others,

Hoping more will fill you Mr Chunners,

In vein, it all came back to zeroes.

You are now disturbing me,

Hoping that I will comply to thee,

struggle and toil like a honey bee,

For bread and butter for you sweetie.

I am writing to let you know,

That you need to adhere to economic situations,

Mr. Money is on high demand

So you need to cut the budget too.

I hope you will reply sooner,

As the time is quite shorter.

Or else you will be forced to get smaller

In order to meet other financial endeavors.

And the last one was Haiku. Haiku is an unrhymed, syllabic form adapted from the Japanese: three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Because it is so brief, a haiku is necessarily imagistic, concrete and pithy, juxtaposing two images in a very few words to create a single crystalline idea. I really like haiku´s, and on this webpage: http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/haiku/there is many of them I consider as very good, hope you will like it also J

And finally, this is my poetry book!

http://storybird.com/books/trip-with-flip/?token=67cbxzwnr9

This page is from time to time not working, so I decided to upload pages of my book also here: