Me and my brother will hang
my red triangle piñata from a half-moon,
and I’ll punch it in.
It will sound like a song
when it breaks
and the candy melts out and falls on me
and then it drips on me
and feels like chocolate.
Inside are my cousins
jumping on the bed,
screaming so loud my brain
starts to scream.
And JD’s throwing a pass
to Josiah who passes it to me,
and I run for a touchdown
and do a Michael Jackson dance by myself.
With shiny black Jordans flying in the air,
I fly with them.
Inside the piñata
I will sit there with my family,
eating chicken nuggets
and nobody’s talking
because we’ll all be laughing.
By Daylen, 2nd grade
Click the link (above) to listen to the poem read on KPFT radio by Conner Duffey, a 2nd grader from Parker Elementary.
This poem is featured as part of the 2012 A Poem A Day campaign, a National Poetry Month celebration by Writers in the Schools (WITS) that features a different poem by a WITS student every day during April. Click here to learn more.