Jonathan+M


 * theme: food

Eat-it-All Elaine** **By Kay Starbird** **I went away last August** **To summer camp in Maine ,** **And there I met a camper** **called Eat-it-all Elaine.** **Although Elaine was quiet,** **She liked to cause a stir** **By acting out the nickname** **Her camp-mates gave to her.** **The day of our arrival** **At Cabin Number 3** **When girls kept coming over** **To greet Elaine and me,** **She took a piece of Kleenex** **And calmly chewed it up,** **Then strolled outside the cabin** **And ate the buttercup.** **Elaine from that day forward** **Was always in command,** **On hikes, she'd eat some birch-bark** **On swims, she'd eat some sand.** **At meals she'd swallow prune-pits** **And never have a pain,** **While everyone around herWould giggle, "Oh Elaine!"** **A bug was in her pail,** **And though we thought for certain** **Her appetite would fail,** **Elain said, "Hmmm, a stinkbug ,"** **And while we murmured, "Ooooh,"** **She ate her pail of berries** **And at the stinkbug too.** **The night of Final Banquet,** **When Counselors were handing** **Awards to different children** **Whom they believed outstanding,** **To every thinking person At summer camp in Maine The Most Outstanding Camper Was Eat-it-all Elaine!**
 * One morning, berry-picking,**

**By Shel Silverstein** **Thanksgiving Dinner's sad and thankless** **Christmas Dinner's dark and blue** **When you stop and try to see it** **From the turkey's point of view.** **Sunday Dinner isn't sunny** **Easter Feasts are just bad luck** **When you see it from the viewpoint** **Of a chicken or a duck.** **Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and Lobsters-- lamb chops too** **Till I stopped and looked at dinner** **From the dinner's point of view.**
 * Point of View**

By Darren Sardelli **When I asked dad for twenty bucks ,** **he said, “Lets make a deal.** **I’ll give you money only if** **you eat a healthy meal .”** **before I went to bed.** **I looked into his tired eyes** **and this is what I said:** **//“I finished all my vegetables.//** **//The carrots tasted great!//** **//I ate the piece of celery//** **//that mom put on my plate.//** **//The eggplant was delicious//** **//and the string beans were divine.//** **//The peppers were fantastic//** **//The giant baked potato//** **//was the highlight of my night.//** **//The juicy red tomato//** **//filled my belly with delight."//**  **My dad said he was proud of me**   **and handed me the cash.**   **I hope he doesn't find out**   **all this food is in the trash!
 * Twenty Bucks**
 * I found him sitting on the couch**
 * //and the broccoli was fine.//**

To sum up all of these poems, although the poems are based on food, that is not what they are completely about. For an example, Eat-it-all-Elaine did eat disgusting foods, but she did not eat it because she thought it tasted good. Elaine obviously liked having attention and got it by eating everything. Also, in the poem Point of View, foods were talked about but the main point is to make you more aware of how food got on your plate and to think about the situation from another point of view, specifically from the animal being eaten. Food tastes great and we love to eat it but food can also cause other issues.**