A Happy Poem for this Rainy, Rainy Day

As a part of a heritage project at school, Sophie wrote a poem about herself that follows the pattern of George Ella Lyon's Peom "Where I'm From." This is Sophie's version.


Where I'm From
by Sophie Chamberlain

I am from dice,

From playing cards and an old couch.

I am from the kidney-shaped pool,

Tasting like salt

And smelling like chlorine.

I am from the prickly pinecones

And Emma’s cumquat bush.

They smelled like citrus

And tasted sour and sweet at the same time.

I am from brownies and BBQ’S,

From uncle Ross and Gideon.

I am from laugh-out-louds and snapping photos,

From “Practice piano” and “Don’t eat like a pig”.

I am from “ If all the raindrops” and whale watches.

I am from “The California Grey“.

I am from the sunny beaches of California,

Banana pancakes and chocolate milk.

From long trips with sunflower seeds and diet coke.

I am from the old photos in a box, in the closet.

I am from moments that I will pass on to my children.

I am just a leaf-fall from a family tree.



**It's just about enough to bring a mom to tears.