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Remember Our Friendship?

Instructions: Fill in the blanks at the bottom of the page to create your own poem. Once you are done, you will be able to print and email your poem. You can also share a copy of your poem with Pongo, or download this activity to print and work on off-line.

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Read "Remember Our Friendship?" by Hayley

Remember Our Friendship?
by Hayley

Do you remember our childhood?
I do
Riding horses in the mountains until nightfall
With rain drops as our only indication that it was time
To come home
Your mama’s suppers organic fresh healthy
Always on the table each evening at six

Do you remember flowing around the pool table
In our creative tribal dance
To the melodious chant
Of Harry Nilsson’s “Coconut” parading out of your mom’s stereo
The notes frolicking through the room like fireflies

Racing down to Fresno after school
For soccer practice
Pushing that ’86 Toyota Camry to the max
And freeze outs on the way home from a movie
Air conditioner on
Windows down
Snow sifting in
And nobody
I mean nobody
Was gonna call “uncle”

We took the labels together
“The Mountain Girls”
“Hicks”
With a laugh
Sitting on opposite ends of the field
But you always had my back

You driving the eight hours from Oregon
After the accident
To sit on a waiting room floor with me
Just to cry

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a poem by ___________________________ (your name here)

Do you remember our friendship?
I do.
When we hung out together at  _______________________________________________

You were _________ years  old, I was ________________

I remember the  scene

________________________________________________________________________
(DESCRIBE  the place where you hung out – the furniture, the sounds, the smells,  etc.)

Do you remember our friendship?
I do.
The favorite  meals we  shared

________________________________________________________________________
(DESCRIBE the meal, including different foods, colors, smells, etc.)

The music we  liked

________________________________________________________________________
(DESCRIBE  the favorite songs you shared, etc.)

Do you remember our  friendship?
I do.
The promises we made, the things we shared

I  once  __________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

You  once  _______________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Do  you remember our friendship?
I do.

This poem was created on the PongoTeenWriting.org web site!