Poems by Elizabeth Ruoyu Mei (Fall/Winter 2007-2008)

Seven and Heaven

There once was a cat named Seven,

Who played with a mouse named Heaven,

They fell in a cup,

And couldn’t get up,

Until they were both eleven.

Cinquaine

Wildlife

Big, small,

Running, jumping, sniffing,

They are scattered everywhere

Animals

Acrostic Poem

Diminishing the dark

Arising the day

Wakening life

Nice sight

Diamonté

Sunlight

Piecing, bright

Sinking, ceasing, sleeping,

Darkness, Coolness, Gentleness, Paleness

Glowing, shining, rising,

Glimmering, shimmering,

Moonlight

Haiku Poem

Gentle, pale, moonlight,

Cooling off the heat of the day

In the dark, dark, night.

5W

The chipmunk,

Gathered nuts

Beside the old oak tree

Because winter was coming

Haiku

Glimmering moonbeams

Fall onto the glassy, still

Waters of the pond,

The chickadee on

The snow chirped merrily

On Boughs of holly

Diamonté

Infant

Wondering, stretching,

Learning, understanding, reading,

Thinking, developing, writing, knowing

Advancing, working, growing

Wise, grown

Adault

Seed

Bumpy, brown,

Rooting, sprouting, wriggling,

Pushing, growing, widening, thrusting,

Leafing, aging, peeling

Elderly, tall

Tree

Limericks

There once was a bird named Phil

Who couldn’t fly up a hill

He asked his mother

If he would ever bother

She laughed, “When you’re older you will!”

There once was a golden snail

Who could tell ten fairy tales

He told the gardener’s daughter

And she told her father

And he told his father, Kail.