Reading Level: Grade 3
Topics: Food Poems
Poetic Techniques: Alliteration, Assonance, Irony, List Poems, Narrative Poems, Repetition, Rhyme Schemes
Word Count: 158

About This Poem

The reason I wrote this poem is that my lunch actually did give me a tummy ache. I had lunch at what seemed like a nice restaurant, but when I got home an hour later, my stomach was in terrible pain.

It wasn’t a buffet, like in the poem, I didn’t actually overeat. There was just something about the food that didn’t sit right with me.

As I was clutching my stomach in pain, the words “my lunch gave me a tummy ache” popped into my mind, followed by the rest of the first stanza. I immediately pulled out my mobile phone and jotted it down.

For the next couple of hours, even though I was not feeling well at all, my mind kept working on the poem and I kept jotting down more notes. Eventually I had written the entire poem.

So, you see, you never know where an idea for a poem or a story may come from but, when it does, it’s best to write it down. Here are a few other poems I wrote because I wasn’t feeling well:

• I’b God a Code
• I Slipped on a Banana Peel
• Terrible Dream

From the book A Festival for Frogs

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