poems about anger

"Punch What You say"

by Kienan Lynch

You make the beast and then I let it out.
I punch what you say.
You think I'm your punching bag.
I think you're that ignorant gremlin
hanging on my ear. And I blow you away.
I'm stuck in your web.
And you wrap me in your meanness.
I don't listen and break
free.
Now you're not real to me.

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Holy crap. Kids are awesome. I was volunteering at the library today, well, only today, and I had to organize the books in the children's section. A lot of the books were pretty boring, but I found Where the Wild Things Are, a book about J.K. Rowling, and, amongst others, a book of poems about anger written by little kids, called Poems About Anger by American Children.

The editor, I believe, was an elementary school teacher who had someone come in and get the kids get excited about writing poetry???? I think that is a premise. But it's basically a collection of these kids' work, and she talked about how she got the kids to express their ideas and let them use structures like simile and metaphor and rhyme, but also let them freely interpret these in creative ways. It's incredible. I doubt I could construct such metaphors and flow language so well.

I don't remember ever being such a cool eight year old.