easy points....find me a short poem on this website?

Question

i`m in 8th grade and we are learning about poems, and my teacher wants us to find at least 2 poems on poetryoutloud.org (i have to memorize them) i couldn`t find any short ones...i am really nervous, can someone help me find 2 short poems on that web site please?

www.poetryoutloud.org

Answer 1

this one looks easy...
Winter

By Marie Ponsot


I don’t know what to say to you, neighbor,
as you shovel snow from your part of our street
neat in your Greek black. I’ve waited for
chance to find words; now, by chance, we meet.


We took our boys to the same kindergarten,
thirteen years ago when our husbands went.
Both boys hated school, dropped out feral, dropped in
to separate troubles. You shift snow fast, back bent,
but your boy killed himself, six days dead.


My boy washed your wall when the police were done.
He says, “We weren’t friends?” and shakes his head,
“I told him it was great he had that gun,”
and shakes. I shake, close to you, close to you.
You have a path to clear, and so you do.

Answer 2

Try The Tyger by William Blake, it is a good rythmic poem and is well-suited to your age group.

Answer 3

G'day. i could call it "If i might desire to offer you wings There’d be no choose so which you may fall No clarification so which you may ever get harm For you would be above us all yet you notice, You mean lots greater to me Than the conventional individual So be my pal till the top and that i would be your wings" ...that way ther could be no confusion. :)

Answer 4

I Close My Eyes

By David Ignatow


I close my eyes like a good little boy at night in bed,
as I was told to do by my mother when she lived,
and before bed I brush my teeth and slip on my pajamas,
as I was told, and look forward to tomorrow.


I do all things required of me to make me a citizen of sterling worth.
I keep a job and come home each evening for dinner. I arrive at the
same time on the same train to give my family a sense of order.


I obey traffic signals. I am cordial to strangers, I answer my
mail promptly. I keep a balanced checking account. Why can’t I
live forever?





I Close My Eyes

By David Ignatow


I close my eyes like a good little boy at night in bed,
as I was told to do by my mother when she lived,
and before bed I brush my teeth and slip on my pajamas,
as I was told, and look forward to tomorrow.


I do all things required of me to make me a citizen of sterling worth.
I keep a job and come home each evening for dinner. I arrive at the
same time on the same train to give my family a sense of order.


I obey traffic signals. I am cordial to strangers, I answer my
mail promptly. I keep a balanced checking account. Why can’t I
live forever?