Poetry

 Ode to Hot Dog

 

O Hot dog

Good and tasty

O Hot dog

Made with fine bread

With a sausage in the middle

O Hot dog

The sausage

Spread with mustard, tomato sauce

and ketchup

O Hot dog

You make my day beautiful

Hotter

the better

O hot dog

You taste great

O hotdog

You smell lovely

You give me energy for the day

Poetry

                                                               COVID-19 through the seasons

The global pandemic, COVID-19

Initially discovered in the winter of 2019

It was discovered in China 

It is a deadly virus

It lived through winter

When spring came it isn’t wiped out

It is transmitted through droplets

Spring’s flower and beautiful birds could not stop it 

It is summer and the virus is still not wiped out

Summer’s heat kills animals but not this virus

Scientists are making vaccines for it

But it is now airborne disease 

Now autumn has arrived 

Developed countries are making vaccines 

We are in lock down protected by our king

Let us all pray to wipe out the virus sooner

The Odyssey by Homer

Tittle: The Odyssey 

Author: Homer. Retold by Barbara leonie  Picard

Genre: Epic novel

Originally published: Retold in 1952

Length: 272 pages

Once there lived a king who ruled a small island called Ithaca. His name was Odysseus. He sailed away from Ithaca to Trojan for a war. Odysseus went to war in Trojan because Helen was stolen by Paris. Paris took Helen to Troy. Helen was the wife of Menelaus of Sparta. Odysseus went to Troy in order to get Helen back.

Paris, son of king Priam, fell in love with with Helen so Paris took Helen to Troy. 1000 Greek army sailed to Troy to get Helen back. Odysseus spent 10 long years in Troy  to win the war. He won the war and sailed back to Ithaca. On the way he got lost. 

He met Polyphemus the one eyed Cyclops, son of Poseidon. One day Odysseus and his men went to  cyclops’s cave to steal some cheese and butter but the cyclops reaches home. The monster finds out what was going on and the angry monster consumes Odysseus’s men alive. When the cyclops sleeps Odysseus and his men poked a burning wood in the cyclops’s big eye. He faces lots of Troubles and monsters. Some monsters were the cunning sirens, Scylla, the six headed monster and many more.

At last Odysseus reaches home but there was a surprise waiting for him at home. There were more than hundreds of suitors who wanted to win Odysseus’s wife as their wife. Odysseus’s son Telemachus was grown up and saw his father for the first time. Odysseus killed all the suitors and  lived happily ever after. 

 

If I could visit any where on the earth for a month vacation...

                                                                Madagascar 

If I could visit any where on the  earth for a month vacation, I would go to Madagascar. It is a place full of birds, mammals and plants. My love for watching birds will be fulfilled because Madagascar is home for different and unique species of birds. If you love nature Madagascar is full of nature. Since it is an island you can  also go fishing too.

Madagascar presents some animals that does not exist anywhere on earth like the ring-tailed lemur. The ring-tailed lemur exists no where except on Madagascar. There are lots of reptiles, plants and mammals that only lives in Madagascar.

Madagascar is a large island closer to Eastern Africa. Some people say when Africa cracked the small part of land got separated from Africa and all the animals got trapped in the small land. That’s how Madagascar was formed. There are more than 22 million people living in Madagascar.

If I ever visit Madagascar I would learn their skills like fishing, making fire with stones, and many more. I would love to see bird like the magnificent toucan. Some people call it the banana beaked bird because it has a beak like a banana. I would also see the ring-tailed lemur.

Madagascar is full of nature. In order to develop nature like Madagascar we should not harm animal and destroy nature. If we do not disturb the eco system our country will be like Madagascar.