In school I have to study a book called The Roar On The Other Side, it's a really fun book, and every other week I have to pick a project to do. In this week I picked a project called BRIC-A-BRAC WORDS. In this you have to get the dictionary(we used The American Heritage Dictionary) and randomly pick a word that sounds interesting to you, not paying any attention to the meaning. You then collect 10 to 12 words and apply them to a poem that is 8 to 12 lines, we tried it and this is what we came up with:

An Imaginary Circus and What Happened There

The Arabesque Acrobats pirouetted perspicuously across the stage.
The cockerspaniel decided to wear knickerbockers to the circus.
A volcano spit Vespertinal Rocks, hitting the Circus Director on the head.
Flinkites stopped mid-air.
Sloganeer snakes slithered across the ring.
A Sloganeer pounced upon a niggling mouse.
The Cartulary collapsed.
The Lassitude Lassoers lassoed a loose tooth.
Glockenspiel gave a sigh of relief when all was calm again.

If you find this interesting, and would like to know how to do this with your own family or with a group, here is my procedure: Pick someone to go first (no arguing, please) then have them randomly pick a interesting (and perferably long) word that seems to go well with the theme that you picked. (We picked a circus) You then write it down. After this is finished, give the dictionary to the person on their right and have them repeat the procedure. After you have the desired amount of words, go to the person who picked a word second and ask them to make a sentence using the word that the first person picked. Keep this up, asking each person in turn to make a sentence with the word that the person before them had picked. Put them together make a poem, and it is finished!

I highly reccomend this book!

Sir Richard

Hello, I haven't been around because of school, tests, and other time-consuming activties. Anyway, I persuaded my mom to let me put up a post since I hadn't put one up since November 2nd. So now I've decided I would put up a poem I had written and see how you like it.

"Then Beowulf bethought the boasts of his men.

Called them to his side,

Set out to the dragon's huge stone tower

By the side of the sea.

When the army and Beowulf

Arrived at last,

Beowulf made a speech

That was royal, rich, and long,

He also beseeched his men

To come at his bidding.

Then Beowulf went in;

Into the beastly tower,

He tried to sneak

Up on the beast,

But the beast was already waiting.

So when Beowulf took the last turn,

The dragon was ready to send flaming fire

Down to meet Beowulf.

Beowulf fought bravely,

Then called out for his men,

But all of his men had fled,

All but one.

He came to Beowulf's side,

Fought victoriously,

But he could not save his master's life.

I hope it told you what the book is about, and also sounded poetic, I also hope you noticed a little alliteration.

Sir Richard

Sal's up first, the flying trapeze,

 She jumps and lands with ease.

Daniel's up next, he swings through the breeze,

Along the sky, and through the trees.

Reginald pushes Daniel as he circles a bee,

Daniel keeps going higher, with flying fleas.

Daniel goes higher,as he swings to and fro,

If he isn't careful, he'll hit the show!

Daniel hit the wall, fifty times that day,

But the show went on, for a year and a day!

The crowd never left, the crowd never goes,

But nor do they tire of the sparkling show!!!!!!!

-Sir Richard

“Oh Sea, Oh Sea,

How large is your load?”

“10”, said the Sea, as he listened to me.

Then to the Waves I said,

“Do you ever get tired?”

“Yes”, said the Waves, “I get tired of my brother pushing me!

“Waves and Sea, oh Waves and Sea, you must come to like each other!

“We do, we do,” said the Sea

“Well I don’t, said the Waves.

“Why, not?” asked the Sea confusedly

“Because you push me!” said the Waves.

“Well that’s part of nature!” I said.

-a poem in the style of Emily Dickenson

THE BEE IS NOT AFRAID OF ME

The bee is not afraid of me

 I know the butterfly

The pretty people in the woods

Receive me cordially.

 The brooks laugh louder when I come

The breezes louder play,

Wherefore mine eyes thy silver mists?

Wherefore O summers day?

I’M NOBODY

I’m nobody, who are you?

Are you nobody too?

Then there’s a pair of us,

Don’t tell, they’d banish us you know,

 How dreary to be somebody

How public like a frog,

To tell your name,

The livelong day,

To an admiring bog.

AS CHILDREN BID THE GUEST GOODNIGHT

As children bid the guest goodnight,

And then reluctant turn,

My flowers close their pretty lips,

Then put their nightgowns on,

 As children caper when they wake,

Merry that it is morn,

My flowers from a-hundred cribs,

Will peep and prance again.  

Sal Thinks

Sal don't think,

even when she writes with ink

RIGHTS FOR CHILDREN

I want my rights, I want to play,
I want to go out side today,
please let me go, and if you don’t,
I might die, see if I don’t.

DRAGON IS

He wants his breakfast it’s plain to see,
but why is he chasing me?

DRAGON ISN’T

He’s had his breakfast; it’s plain to see,
but I hope he won’t start chasing me!

SKY PICTURE

Even though
it’s down below
it means it’s far away.

Explanation of poem:

in a picture, you draw the grass and if your picture is about the outside,

the sky usually is drawn in the background; from the bottom of the page to the top

UNCOMFORTABLE BATS

They squirmed,
they turned,
but they couldn’t sleep,
those poor winged bats.

SOCKS

The sock
    that was dropped
        on the floor
            was taken
                 to the store.

Up
Up went the birds,
Up went the trees,
Up went the world,
And up went me!

Syrup
Syr Up, and
Madam Up,
Went to a ball,
Syr Up was dressed up,
But Madam Up not at all.

The Zoo
Me and you,
went to the Zoo,
'T', and  '2',
Went there too,
There we met,
Two by two!