the opposite of me - Persona poems - The Chicago Poetry Center

the opposite of me – Persona poems

For our 12th week with Waters 7th graders, we explored Persona poems. These are poems written in the voice of someone else. For this lesson we discussed examples of celeb personas (like Beyonce/Sasha Fierce, Kobe Bryant/Black Mamba) before reading “What the Moon Said to Michael.” We discussed how to convey a fictional character through a poem, and students wrote their own persona poems. Take a look below and enjoy!

Waters 7th Grade

2 in 1 Theda S.

Looking at the differences
the opposite of me

I’ll try to be
closer and far

everything I want
to be

you can
I can’t
you jump
I stay
I like, but really?
my life
you play

Chris Theo R.

Chris buy me taco.
Christ make me taco.
Chris give me taco.
Chris trade me taco.
Chris feed me taco.
Chris provide me taco.
Chris hand me taco.
Chris construct me taci.
Chris build me taco.
Chris taco.

Theo the Taco Chris Q.

10 days after war theo scrambles to find food
but is unsuccessful he thinks about eating all the dead
tacos but then we would be a cannibalist and he didn’t want
that so he keeps looking but then he finds henry
the boy that vanished from earth and brought to taco world
but when he came he was taken for experiments
and become the monster he is now. finally theo finds
the taco world warehouse. this is where they shared the
food but he heard a voice “are they gone?” he screams,
“they are!”