I’m a sock on the stairs
I’m fuzzy white
Streams of children pass
Some step on
Some step over
I must belong to one of them!
I don’t belong here!
I long for my mate!
For a foot to hold
Someone must miss me
Will I ever get picked up?
This is not my home!
I’m a sock on the stairs
I’m a sock on the stairs
At school
I actually spied this very sock on the stairs at school. It’s not every day that you see a lone sock on the stairs at school. I passed by some second graders shortly after the sighting. I told them about the lone sock on the stairs and my words were met with “OH YEAH! I saw that when we were coming back from Spanish!” “Aren’t you all in a poetry unit right now?” I knew the answer but wanted to hear it from them. “YES!” “Well I think the sock on the stairs could be a great poem.”
A seed was planted.
To be continued….
This is great! I can’t wait to see what the kids come up with.
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Your title caught my attention. I spent quite some time trying to match our laundry basket full of lone socks this weekend! This also reminded me of the lone pair of underwear I once found on my classroom floor… the poem possibilities are endless.
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Ooh – I do hope you’ll share more lonely sock poems. What a fun writing prompt!
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How do these missing clothing items happen? After a decade in an elementary school, I still haven’t been able to solve the mystery…
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A seed was planted…💕
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