30 Poets/Day 18 - Kristine O'Connell George and Elaine Magliaro

Although there's no set theme to April 18, today's poems by Kristine O'Connell George and Elaine Magliaro are both about creatures/characters that could be in a scary movie and both make me laugh by twisting in an unexpected way. That twist-ing is something I love in books and movies, too, and I'm always happy to share good examples of it with y'all in poem form....

Skeleton at Dinner
by
Kristine O'Connell George

I heard you shout
              Soup's on!

I rattled in,
              sat, slurped.

Soup's in—
                        soup's out.

© 2009 Kristine O'Connell George. All rights reserved.
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THINGS TO DO IF YOU ARE KING KONG
By
Elaine Magliaro

Be BIG.
You dig?
What’s more—
You gotta ROAR.
Show your power.
Scale a tower.
Beat your chest.
AND
Don’t forget to wear
A bulletproof vest!

© 2010 Elaine Magliaro. All rights reserved.
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Yesterday brought us poems by Jon Scieszka and James Carter. Tomorrow... Arnold Adoff and David L. Harrison.

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