Sixth Grade Poems

Here are two poems I wrote when I was in the sixth grade. Why am I sharing them? I dunno.

The Cottage

There was a cottage in the woods
I decided to explore
For I had never seen that cottage
In the woods before

I knocked upon the door
Before I went to roam
But since no one was there
I decided to go home
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The Sea

I went to the great blue sea
To gaze and marvel at it
I thought to myself
What mysteries have we not found
What creatures have we not seen
I want to experience the adventure
That the water holds
But now I want to watch the sea
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Personally, I hate that one, because I dislike freeverse. The only reason why I wrote a freeverse was because the teacher forced us to...

Man, I really liked 'The Cottage' it was excellent, I wanted someone to be home! Haha, I like The Sea poem, I usually dont like freeverse as well, but it was good. Plus you can tell a story very briskly, which is admirable in my opinion.

Why are you sharing them? I don't know either, but I'm glad you did! I really liked those, they were short and to the point, and yet you were able to deliver a message within a small number of lines. My favorite of the two was "The Cottage". It remined me of a fairy tale, which isn't a bad thing, but i don't know why it brought that to my mind.

And about the free verse..don't you just hate it when teachers demand poems from you? It's as if they expect you to turn your inpspiration on like a tap..