Around the Table

This week, poets at Poe Middle School in Ms. Agboola’s class reflected on the many activities that happen at their kitchen/dining room tables. They also experimented with figurative language. Here’s what they created.

Ms. Agboola 6th grade

Here Ayden S.

Here

while the world crumbles

the rectangle is here

like an air balloon carrying me

carrying us

The anxieties of life and tomorrow drift away

like a leaf

drifting away in the breezy wind taking it from the tree

A rectangle

that’s it

yet so meaningful

day after day being here the city, no, the world is

mine

all mine

At my Kitchen Table Nathanael

At my kitchen table

What can I say

We eat and

Watch TV every day

Never in the kitchen

the sprite is jumping

But if it did

My – that would be something

The food is good

and the shows are nice

I really like to eat

shrimp fried rice

The Stains of Life Brayden B.

At the kitchen table is a world of joy and sorrow

stains of love, joy and tears. The stains of life at the

kitchen table.

It is here where you can be free, free from your troubles, free

at last.

Life is your kitchen table, love life.

Ms. Agboola 7th grade

At This Table Gabrielle B.

Many unusual events happen at the kitchen table

only my mom sits at that table

It’s a nice rectangular shape

There are baking products, medicine an air

fryer and vitamins.

Many good things happen at the table

The world ends at the dinner table

Everyone is reunited at this table.

Ms. Agboola 8th grade

A Kitchen Table Anthony P.

A kitchen table has been at my house since it’s been built

It’s gone through many revisions

small, big, circle, rectangle

I eat, I drink. I do everything, at the kitchen table

We’ve had fun conversations

We’ve had deep conversations

Others have thought the best ideas,

the worst ideas.

People have made the best inventions

and the worse inventions.

Most of it, all of it, is at a kitchen table.

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