Question Poems - The Chicago Poetry Center

Question Poems

For the second session for Ms. Licea’s third-grade classroom at Mark Twain Elementary School, we focused on “question poems” where students wrote both strange and ordinary questions about things happening in their lives. We read some questions in a poem by the famed Pablo Neruda, and then we went back over what a line and a stanza mean in poetry. Check out what questions the students asked in their own question poems below!

Ms. Licea 3rd Grade

The Questions I Have to Ask Someone Juliette V.

Why do people like brainrots so much?

Can someone tell me who created them and why they’re so popular?

How does the rainbow turn into one?

Does it only come out when it rains?

Why is hard homework hard?

Does hard homework waste your time thinking?

Why do people buy labubus? Why do they buy it?

Is it just a doll?

Are ghosts real in Mexico?

Who created the stories from them?

I Wonder Dalary O.

I wonder why Ms. Licea likes coffee

Is it because of the taste?

I wonder why Ms. Licea likes the Yankees

Is it because they won many times?

I wonder why Ms. Licea likes Inside Out

Is it because of the characters?

I wonder if tooth fairies are real

Is the money real?

Question Poem Sussan R.

Why mom hit with the chancla?

Is a chancla cool or what?

Who created chanclas?

The chanclas are the worst

Why the chancla hurt?

They are like a ladrilla.