Do You See What I See?
I look out the window
and what do I see?
A 🐈 __________ with a 🎩 __________
and a 🐝 __________ in a 🌳 __________.
A 🐍 __________ with a 🎂 __________
and some ⏰🕰️ __________ in a 📦 __________.
A 🦀 __________ in a 🚕 ___________
and a 🦊 _________ wearing 🧦 __________.
A 🦆 __________ in a 🚚 ___________
and a 🗝️ __________ on a 🎿 _________.
When you look outside, tell me…
what do you see?
— Kenn Nesbitt
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Topics: Wacky Weirdness, Wordplay
Poetic Techniques: Descriptive Poems, List Poems, Wordplay
Word Count: 100
About This Poem
Many years ago, before we had smartphones, we used to send “smilies” in our text messages using something called “emoticons,” where you would use a few symbols to represent facial expressions. I thought they were kind of cute, so I wrote a poem about a character named “Brody the Emoticon.”
A few years later, smartphones were invented and emoticons got replaced with “emojis,” graphic representations of facial expressions and many other things. So I wrote a new poem about another character called “Joe the Emoji.”
Recently, a publisher asked me if I could write another kind of emoji poem, one where kids could decipher the meanings of the emojis based on rhymes, so I wrote several poems for them to choose from. The selected one of the other poems, but this one was my favorite, so I thought I would share it with you here. I hope you enjoy it.
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