In her poem, "Anatomy Lesson #2: The Palpation of Bony Landmarks," Katrina Vandenberg urges readers to see beyond the surface of things, beyond the cold and confusing language of science, using "the art of finding" to explore deeper issues of love, compassion and understanding. The poem's anatomical jargon was discussed, and students were asked to consider an under-appreciated body part in poems of their own.
Ms. Fialkowski (402)
Skin & Body
Janet H.
Skin covers your inside.
Your skin sometimes feels
cold. Your skin is different
colors. Your skin is in all
the body. Your eyes help you
see. Your eyes help you sleep
ZZZ. Your eyes are different
colors. Your bones help you
walk and move. Now I am
waving goodbye with my
hand.
My Body
David V.
The body has
skin to
protect it
from germs.
The
legs help you
run
fast.
The
hands are to
grab things.
The arm helps
the hands to
move. Feet are
to walk. Eyes
are to see.
Ears are to
hear. Nose is to
breathe.
My Body!!!
Damian V.
My body is special. I crack my body every day.
My knee, my fingers, my elbow, my toes. My body
is smooth and soft, it is always skin.
Ms. Michel (403)
Guess What Am I?
Griselda A.
I am as big as your fist. I
pump blood when I beat. When
you eat candy I make you
go hyper. When you run I
beat so much that you
have to sit for a while.
Also when you are scared
I beat too much. Guess what
am I? (A heart.)
Untitled (Body Part Poem)
Jose M.
One
day my
friend told
me that he
broke his
arm because
he fell on the
playground.
And I asked
him did it
hurt and he said no.
Then he told
me that he
was going
to go to
the slide
and he
fell there
and his
mom said
let's go
to the
doctor
and
the
doctor
said
that
his
arm
was
broken
from
the
fall
and
he
was
okay.
The
doctor
said
okay.
And
we
were
friends
again
for
ever
and
we
went
to
the
movies
and
we
go.
The Brain
Yulissa R.
The brain is
on your
head. It
helps you think,
and if you
didn't have a brain
you wouldn't
know nothing,
and you wouldn't
know who you
are if
they called
your name,
you would just
be standing
there. That's
why we have
a brain
and by eating
healthy food
you're feeding
your brain
and you and your
brain have energy.
Ms. Hughesdon (407)
The Skull
Diego B.
The skull protects our brain
from the headers in soccer
and crazy falls
and carrying our eyes.
The skull touches our skin
and it holds our hair.
Eyes
Jose B.
Eyes make you see and to
see your friends, your TV, your
parents. And see cake.
The Hands
David F.
My hands with
five fingers they
look like five
long trees with
lines the lines
look like a
long tree with
long lines the
palm of my
hand the veins
look like stripes
of the color green
the line in the
palm looks like
a deep dark valley.
Skin
Rodolfo P.
My skin so soft and smooth but kind
of hard and has a lot of bruises and
hairy and my green veins and some birthmarks
on it. My skin is also white and tan.
The thickest part of the body.
Ms. Montoya (405)
Untitled (Body Part Poem)
Jennifer A.
In my head
I can learn
by teaching
me like my brain I
can learn math and
reading and writing too
and I can do maps like
to find some states and
any mouth I can talk
and eat too and I can
laugh and make
jokes too.
My Head
Ramiro G.
My head, where my eyes are in place
so I can see the world, where my
nose is so I can smell the wind,
where my mouth is so I can taste
food, where my brain is, where my in-
formation is in my head.
The Nose
Yadid G.
The nose,
small, with two holes
on the bottom,
in your head
with mucus inside
all green or all
gooey. The nose,
where you breathe,
where you smell,
the nose.
Teeth
Jose P.
Teeth is what you chew with, and so
you need to brush them. Sometimes I think
when will a tooth fall out, wondering. I
almost never think about it. Only when
I brush them or look into the mirror.
Once the second set is there, you need
to take care. And sharks, when teeth fall out, they
just keep growing and growing. I wonder
how do teeth grow out of the pink stuff
in your mouth, where does it come from?
Where is it when you have baby teeth, where's
the new one? I'm just wondering.
Untitled (Body Part Poem)
Aaron R.
My friends have different bones.
I have my bones, I have a stomach.
I have a body, I have lots of
bones in my body. One of my bones
is funny, they are called funny bones.
I have a stomach where my
food goes to. I am made
out of bones, I have about
200 bones in my body. I am really
happy, boy it is just really funny.
Ms. Graefen (404)
Untitled (Body Part Poem)
Alejandro A.
We all have elbows.
Our elbows are joints.
The joints meet an-
other part of the
body.
The elbow has other
partners that are
joints, like our knee
joint, hip joint, and
the last but not least
is the shoulder joint.
My Hand!
Vanessa C.
My hand has five fingers.
My hand is big.
My hand has a ring.
My hand is cool.
My hand could hold things.
I could write with my hand.
My hand works hard!
Pinkie
Diego C.
My pinkie, it's
small, funny looking,
with its friend Mr. Nail.
Flexible, sometimes cracking.
Very loud. Two lines in between.
Larynx, Trachea, Bronchial Tubes
Isaac G.
So small is the larynx, no larynx,
no talking. Such a little part,
so big a role. Trachea, a part of life
is breathing, no trachea, no breathing.
Suffering, the life of no breathing
is a painful experience. Bronchial tubes,
carry air, carbon dioxide, inhale, exhale.
No tubes, no air, no bronchial tubes, no
trachea, no trachea, no larynx, no larynx,
no throat, no life.
Mr. Heredia (414)
My Broken Arm
Deisy C.
It was a day in
my life when
I broke
my arm.
I was screaming
“aaa.”
I broke
my arm.
It healed
in three
weeks.
Alright
I can
climb the
tree again.
Body Parts
Fernando P.
The eyes are the
littlest are
lightest
thing in
the body.
The eyes look
like little bouncing
balls, and sometimes
they look
like they are going
to bounce away.
The eyes are wet
and squishy.
Untitled (Body Part Poem)
Jasmine R.
How you crack to never acknowledge
the thought about arthritis.
To ache and to pull them apart.
Able to move them in a bendable
way. A bump of writing at the
most.
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