Sky Diving Poems

Yes, thats right,  we asked the students to write a poem to describe their sky-diving experience.  The poems were judged on how well the students captured the experience, use of words & phrases, and finally, creativity & voice.  The students were asked to utilize an iambic pentameter style.  Here are the final results.

1. Forest Green

2. Columbia Blue

3. Pink

4. Graphite

5. Red

6. Purple

7. Kelly Green

8. Vegas Gold

9. Royal Blue

10. Gold

11. Orange

12. Navy

Here is the winning poem

Let me paraphrase a parable in a paragraph 

It's a parable of a paradox that I once had

I was paralyzed in the sky, something didn't compute

The fact that between two people there was one parachute

Jumping from an aircraft, ironically, far from plane 

Soon to be the kings of the sky, it is we who will rain 

Whether ready or not, there's no turning back, we're all in

No, the butterflies we feel, they won't keep us from fallin'

At the beginning of the day, reaching ground was our goal

And when our shoes hit the grass, we found relief for our souls

An equal partner with gravity, obeying its will

And in return being served one of our life's greatest thrills