Scaffolded Poetry

Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain

By Richard Brautigan

Oh, Marcia,

I want your long blonde beauty

to be taught in high school,

so kids will learn that God

lives like music in the skin

and sounds like a sunshine harpsichord.

I want high school report cards to look like this:

Play with Gentle Glass Things

    A

Computer Magic

   A

Writing Letters to Those You Love

   A

Finding out about Fish

   A

Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty

   A+

Gee, Words... You Evoke the Rain

By J. Sental

Oh, Minstrel,

I want to capture your voice

in a book of lyrical poems

so that world will know that words

ache like sorrow and longing in the night

and blaze like a candle through the crisp autumn.

I want tables of content to look like this:

Beautiful Sadness              pg 2

Lying in the Grass              pg 10

Finding First Love             pg 15

The Secrets of Life           pg 20