Comic Poems! - The Chicago Poetry Center

Comic Poems!

This week in Ms. Smallwood and Ms. Hernandez’s classes we read an excerpt from Cartoon Dialectics by Tom Kaczynskki and discussed how something can both be a comic and a poem. We came up with some guidelines for each and saw how they could be combined in the poem we read and in our brainstorming activity. Students then made their own poetry comics based on what we read or their own experiences. There were so many amazing comic poems, please enjoy a selection of just some of them!

Ms. Smallwood 6th Grade

Elements Leila C.

Plain Text:

Elements.
They burn hot
Give us life
clean waters flow
Earth stays heavy.
The dark void.
The cool air.
The missing one?
Power.
Life
Earth – Power – Water
Air Fire
void

Darkness Charlie W.

Plain Text:

Laying there all alone
then I see it in the darkness
what is it
maybe it’s just the light
but then…
I hear it talk
“where are your parents”
I was too shocked to move
then it all went black
I feel it near me… then I wake up
“it was just a dream”

It started with fire Levin M.

It started with fire
but we wanted more
and more…
and more…
until nothing could stop us.
except ourselves…
…

Ms. Hernandez 7th Grade

The Ocean Freddy P.

Plain Text:

Sea Level, boats and sharks.
100 m under, whales, crocodiles, and fish.
1,000 m under, titanic, submarines, and some
small schools of fish.
10,000 m under, that one scary fish and nothing but pitch black.

Life is confusing Abbie L.

Plain Text:

Life is confusing
Why challenge it?
If we really have no control of others…
Why laws?
If we really just can’t…
Why have we?
If we aren’t allowed to…
Why do we?

The Universe Sam S.

Plain Text:

Fire is a powerful thing, very dangerous.
Green is a color, but also a thing.
Earth is the place where we live.
Water! There is a lot of it.
Air is everywhere, always moving.
Humans are everywhere, and it is what we are.