Run Donkey, Run! @Avondale Elementary

To continue prepping for our collaboration with and field trip to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the students and made one more poem from the music of Carnival of the Animals , specifically, the movement called “Personages With Long Ears” (and various other translations). You may want to listen to the movement while you read on, enjoy!

Room 216 Literary Arts

Runaway Donkey by Makenna W.

Hee haw snort!
Run away!
Run away, run away…
running and kicking
dust everywhere
from the donkey’s
hard black hooves
pounding on the ground
like a hammer

Sneaky Donkey by Brian A.

Donkey Donkey
where are you hiding
or sneaking
Donkey Donkey
where are you up high
or down there
Donkey Donkey
where are you behind
or in front of something

Running Donkey by Adamari Z.

My donkey is kicking
My donkey is running
My donkey is scared
because a monster
My donkey is saved
by a farmer but
he kicks him

Room 214 Literary Arts

Donkey Drives a Car by Caleb C.

The donkey is driving
a car. He is stuck in
traffic and he is
beeping the horn

Donkey by Brooklyn M.

My donkey is running away,
from something, or someone,
it’s running, its running faster,
closer and closer, oh no–

Donkey by Brianna G.

Kick, kick, kick,
and run, run, run,
braying like your
relative the “horse”
Does your back ever hurt
carrying all those people’s stuff?

Room 215 Literary Arts

Kicking Donkey by Desiree V.

The donkey is dancing
all over the opera and
all the other animals are
trying to ruin it by
making a funny sound
to distract the donkey
and the donkey suddenly
threw food at all
the animals

Donkey Party by Daniel L.

Donkeys jumping up
and down
Donkeys dancing here
and there
Donkeys kicking up
and down
People with long ears
at a party
Eating what they like,
very noisy donkeys
Donkeys going
to sleep
Very tired of jumping
and dancing and kicking

The Donkey by Alondra G.

Once upon a time a
donkey stopped to jump
and it couldn’t
maybe the donkey
had hiccups
he said hee haw
he is dancing
and jumping