Grade 6
PoetryWritingNicky likes chess, sports, piano, and, obviously, writing. He lives in a small house with a big backyard near a nice park. He has three chickens and a mourning dove, all of which are cute but aren’t very cuddly. His dream pet is a dog, most of all a shih tzu. He is located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
My power is simple,
I think it quite.
Here is my power,
it’s the power to write.
Words flow through my head,
like a cool summer breeze.
Alliterations I use
will bring you to your knees.
Don’t try to fight me,
I’ll hit you with a comma!
If you’re sneaky, I’ll bring
the exclamation points on ya.
My periods are tough,
my question marks worse.
A tricky ellipsis!?
Well, that’s just a curse.
My most powerful weapon
is my sharpened pencil.
I use it to create stories,
and I don’t need a stencil.
I stop the Eraser,
my greatest enemy.
He and the Thinking Block
can never escape me.
The power to write,
it flows through the night,
shimmering, glimmering
to make it all right.
If you are a burglar, a bandit, beware.
For if I do catch you, good things will not fare.
This is the final line of this poem,
and then, once again, the writer shall roam.
This piece was originally published in No Ordinary Dreamer by 826 National.
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