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For part of our art appreciation, I gave my dks the assignment to write a creative story about what is going on in the picture we are studying.  Well my oldest asked if he could write a poem instead and I just have to say that I am so proud of his hard work.  What I love even more about this poem is that you see reflections of Rudyard Kipling (we are currently reading Just So Stories) in his work and you see a great eye for details in the painting that tie the poem together. 

The painting is of I and the Village by Marc Chagall:

A Day in the Life of a Painting by 1ds9.9

There once was a man, and a green man at that,
And to a goat he liked to chat.
He lived on a farm and had lots of mares,
Sometimes to the fair he went to sell wares.
His father, Mister Narmer was a hard working farmer.
His sister was always quite a bit calmer.
His sister’s name was Natalie --- she stayed in the barn and fed the cattle-e,
And his mother floated along quite happily.

They were Christians, so they went to church,
And one day the pastor gave a leaf from a birch.
They then went to their yellow house where all the lights were lit;
They had no idea what to do with it.

The goat was hungry ‘til the man of green,
Came up and gave her the leaf from the tree.
When the goat was done, to him she said,
“Thank you very much, my young green friend.”
“I was thinking about Natalie, but then I stopped,”
“When you gave me the leaf from the tree that I topped.”

And if you want to see it all, one day a man named Marc Chagall –
I and the Village he captured for all.