Poetry by Abby

With school out, Abby hardly knows what to do with herself.  The school provides Day Camp three morning a week for K-6, but that isn't enough for Abby.  Here is some of her work.  Enjoy seeing the world in poetic free verse through the eyes of a 10 year-old American girl living in Indonesia.

POETRY By Abby Selzer

Blue

Blue is the sky

Blue is a bird

Blue is a color

Blue is a flower growing in the ground

Blue is the wire for the printer

If only everything could be blue

Red

Red is a color

Red is the sunset
Red is a campfire roasting hotdogs

Red is a ball bouncing around

Red is O.U. the best football team

Green

Green is the freshly cut grass

Green is the tops of trees and bushes

Green is the rug that sits in the living room

Green is the stem of beautiful flowers

Green is the best so pretty and clean

Orange

Orange is the sunrise

Orange is a pumpkin growing bigger and bigger

Orange is a carrot ready to pick

Orange is an orange sitting in the sun

Orange is amazing so why not be it

Yellow

Yellow is the sun shining upon us

Yellow is a banana being gobbled up by a monkey

Yellow is millions of tennis balls bouncing around

Yellow is my brothers’ teeth

Yellow is the school bus that stops in front of my house

Without yellow we’re all in the dark

Purple

Purple is a round plum made into a plum pie

Purple is grapes being picked in a vineyard

Purple is a dodge ball getting ready to be thrown

Purple is the dress that a woman wears to the ball

Black

Black is a beautiful night

Black is the book bag I take to school

Black is the pen I write with

Black is the end of my pencil

Black is the tires our sepeda motor

Zebras

Zebras run fast

You could never catch them

Even if you are fast

Zebras are faster

I will tell you the reason

They are striped

Worms

Worms are so little

so slimy and stinky

There’s only one good thing about them

F-I-S-H-I-N-G

Monkeys

I am a spunky monkey

I am chunky

I am funky

I always eat bananas

But I never sl-ip

Ahh thump

“Ah Man’’

Tigers

Tigers are striped

They like to eat meat

They need to brush their teeth

But if you try you

DIE

Lions

Lions are mean

They growl a lot

Grow big mains

To become the

ALPHA LION

Elephants

Elephants have big trunks

They do a lot with them

They drink through them

They spit though them

Elephants do so much with them

Pink pigs

I’ve seen

Green pigs

Blue pigs

Yellow pigs

Red pigs

Orange pigs

Even black pigs

But never pink pigs

I guess they don’t like me

Yes now I’ve seen pink pigs!

Places to eat

Places to eat there are so many.

Where should I eat? Arby’s Wendy’s

Which is best? Which is fastest?

McDonalds! 

Where to go?

Where to go?

I want to go to Africa

But I also want to go to China

Where to go

I is so hard to pick

To Europe

Or Russia

Which one

I cannot choose

I guess

I will just stay right here

Hard to Choose

Hard to choose

Between a robot or an army man which one

I know I will

Flip a coin

Heads is army man

Tails is robot

Aduh!

(Indonesian for Ugh!)

Landed on its side!

Me

My name Is Abby Selzer

I like to do a lot

I play sports

I have fun

That’s what I like to do

B.E.L.L.E 1

Stands for Belle!

Belle

Active pup

Likes to jump

I miss her so

Dog 

B.E.L.L.E 2

Stands for Belle!

Belle

Amazing pup

Likes to hope

She rocks my socks!