Language Arts IV: How Do You Say Poem?
How Do You Say Poem?
K says poem like po-yem
I’ve heard poem like foam or home or loam
Sometimes it’s slam like jam or ma’am
It could be limerick or keen(ah) or lament
E says it slant
I say poem like here or soul or this
Like fear or joy or o so coy like sky like earth
Like love
Like mirth or church or meet
Like pain insane regain the plane
Or shhh or oof or eef and see?
Mostly poem o poem is me
How do YOU say poem?
VANESSA SHIELDS 