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Tropical Fruit Salad

Here

There

Who’s there?

That cool breeze

Welcome to the rain

Mangoes, paw-paws, watermelons

The rainy season brings them all to our fruit salad

I wrote my first Fib poem with my Teach Write writing party. Here’s part of the instruction we used to create our poems. “Fib poems are based on the mathematical Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… The poem is written in syllables based on this sequence.”

We were to write our poems about spring, since there are only two seasons where I am , we decided I write about change, and as the rainy season starts in April, I wrote about that.

MANGOES. Photo credit: Flickr (Sunnyswede)
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8 responses to “Tropical Fruit Salad”

  1. Radutti Avatar
    Radutti

    This is excellent, you used the structure but still made a coherent thread of ideas. R’s fave in Ghana was Paw-Paw! Also really great tie to math in poetry. 🙂

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    glenda funk

    I love the Fib format and the mathematical implications. It’s a fun form to share w/ students, too. Lovely photo.

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  3. Book Dragon Avatar
    Book Dragon

    What an interesting format. You did a great job with the topic.

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  4. Betsy Hubbard Avatar
    Betsy Hubbard

    What a fun format!
    I love a good mango. Sweet sunshine for the mouth.

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  5. mschiubookawrites Avatar
    mschiubookawrites

    I really like this format and may have to try it. Thank you!

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I am an Elementary school teacher , I taught at an International IB School in Accra, Ghana. I am now teaching in Hanoi. Writing is my passion and I try to write daily, at least in my sentence a day journal, to capture all the blessings around me. I write with groups of writers, such as Teach Write and sometimes Ethical ELA. I also encourage my friends to write , so I created a platform to make that possible -Writing Run.

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