ADNAN'S ESCAPADES

I'll deviate from my usual poetry  a little to this because it's worth it. So I told my student, Adnan Essak (12 year old, Grade 6) at Taleem Ul Islaam Academy, that he can be the best writer if he wanted to. He doesn't believe me just yet, or perhaps doesn't believe in himself. So we decided to go this way. Please read and enjoy Adnan's Escapades and be part of an interesting journey of writing growth for my little genius boy.

MAASAI MARA VENTURES

Last weekend Adnan and family traveled to Maasai Mara. He took time to come up with this descriptive composition capturing some of the epic moments and lessons from the trip. If this doesn't make you wish to visit Maasai Mara, then the Wild Beast migration won't.

Did you know that lions are the only cats that live in groups called prides? A pride has many females, their cubs and a few males. The females do most of the hunting. The males eat and sleep all day. Female lions hide in the jungle when giving birth.

Giraffes have long neck which helps them to eat from the trees. Their long legs help them to kick their enemies. 

Elephants have long, strong trunks to help them as hands to eat their food. Elephants are huge and strong . 96 elephant are killed every day for their tusks.

Rhinos have two horns to protect them from any kind of harm . Did you know that there are only 2 white rhinos left? Sometimes humans can be monsters.

Cheetahs' colour on the skin helps them to camouflage with the grass when hunting for their prey.Cheetahs' are 240 times faster then the fastest man on earth.

Thanks for reading. What do you think?

AGA KHAN ACADEMY - YEAR 6R HAIKU POEMS

In poetry class with Year 6 - Aga Khan Academy Nairobi - we learnt about Haiku Poems structure and the students had chance to compose their own Haikus. Have a look and enjoy just like I did!! 

(The images used are not our own and the websites containing them have been cited in the captions)

                                                   

https://www.shutterstock.com/video/clip-18766859-4k-little-boy-sitting-alone--doing

 THE NEW STUDENT

Saw a new face today,

     As silent as could be and,

   Never knew their name.

                                               Nicole Muthoni

https://www.amazon.com/NAN-Wind-Painting-Halloween-Pictures/dp/B01M6UN8G6

THE WEIRD WOODS

Green day in the woods.

Creeping me out as it stays

Standing tall and proud.

                                      Adnan Boyle

https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2018/10/18/harnessing-creativity-innovation

                                             CREATIVITY

                                               Creativity,

                                               It's never too much to have

                                               In books and in poems.

                                                        Rahma Farah

A WORLD OF GAMES

A world of games,

Football shall not hide away,

Stars shining in the sky.

                                    Khaleel Rashid  

https://scroll.in/field/873829/racism-scandal-rocks-russia-ahead-of-2018-football-world-cup

               

                                 

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cdn-origin-etr.akc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/12213218/German-Shepherd-on-White-00.jpg

   

MY PET

            I have a pet dog,          

He is a German Shepherd,

His name is Manny.

                                                 Sifa Wanyama

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Emperor_Gum_Moth.jpg

MOTHS

Moths go flying by

Now close the window boy

So they don't come in

                                 Rohan Shah

                                                                                    

                                              MY PET DOG

https://www.pcmag.com/review/323794/tractive-motion

I have a pet dog

We named her Sita because

she is the sixth girl

                                           Yael Hailey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_(Despicable_Me)

BE HAPPY

I love being happy,

Going to sleep in a flash 

The sun will shine.

Umang Mahajan

                                                 

                                                                                     

                                                                                      BIRDS

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/how-to-learn-bird-songs-and-calls/

All the birds singing,

With sweet beautiful voice,

Which make me happy

                                                   Tyna Ndubai

 

https://thankgoditsmonday.life/

MONDAY

Wake up happy

and realize it is Monday 

and scream Mommy

                                   Vanshh Patel

https://nation.com.pk/10-Apr-2018/new-morning-new-hopes

MORNING

The sun is shining       

                     A beautiful morning

                     Flowers are blooming

                                       Swabah Abdirahman.

                             

ONE DAY I'LL BE A THIEF

THAT ONE MYSTERY THAT MAKES US WHOLE

And some she just enchains in her cage

KILL ME TOO

What satisfaction is it we seek in destruction?

 The green that freshes the air I breathe,

Towering green that haven melodies of the birds,

The flora that defines the green of my flag,

If I wake up one morning and find it all gone,

Do not hesitate, kill me too!

The swash and backwash of the streams of life,

Droplets that quench, yet still homes the fish,

Those turbulent forces of water brown and blue,

If I wake up one morning and find it all dry,

Speak no word, kill me too!

The jungle chorale! A rhythm of the wild,

Where predators and prey strive to survive,

My land’s pride, the fauna…Owimoweh!

If I wake up one morning and find it all dead

Waste no time, kill me too!

All these creative artwork of the One above,

They pleases thine eyes and saves thy lives,

What satisfaction is it we seek in destruction?

If I wake up one morning, find’em down and dead;

Sing me a dirge; then kill me too!

By Sammy Nakitare