He Rocks

Our little home school is doing a mini unit on geology.  Tomorrow we will be "rockin' at the library" with our friends and having a little show and tell with our rock collections.  After teaching the boys about rocks and minerals (and earning our geology Cub Scout belt loop), I had the boys write a story about a rock (as part of the Cub Scout academics pin for geology).  IJ one-upped my assignment with some free-form poetry.

Igneous

Blasting Magma

Cooling Air

Shuffling Crust

Igneous Bloom

Stone of the Moon

Shines at light

Glows at night

Granite

Silky black of the night

Lava in flight

Cooling Rapid

Obsidian

Pale beauty like a moon beam

Rising rock

Makes a mound

Rhyolite

Who dares forge

these volcano fights?

Who will pressure

Heat and stone?

A case of life

Now gone.

I don't really feel bad that I haven't done any creative writing with him.  He isn't even nine years old yet!