Friday, April 12, 2013

The 60-60-60 Challenge :: Day Twelve

Welcome to Day Twelve of the 60-60-60 Challenge to support America SCORES Seattle and celebrate National Poetry Month! 

As promised, below are some poems and resources to help you reach your goal to give your Full 180 to America SCORES Seattle by taking the 60-60-60 Challenge to read 60 poems for National Poetry Month, to walk 60 miles for yourself, and to raise 60 dollars for America SCORES Seattle!

Start fundraising now by joining our team on crowdrise :: Seattle SCORES' Full 180 

Today’s poems are a series of Recipe For Me poems written during our Fall 2011 season:




A Recipe for Me
By Joshua R., Maple Elementary

10 gallons of love
2 cups of temper
6 pounds of spice
2 quarts of jealousy
100 cubic yards of franly
3 gallons of soccer
30 quarts of SCORES






A recipe for Me
By Ramon G., Maple Elementary

100,000 gallons of goodness
1 teaspoon of anger
500,000 cups of hearts
1 pinch of frustration
1,000,000 parts of courage
10 cubic feet of love
3 pinches of badness
5 ounces of spices
5 pinches of sadness
5 pounds of soccer player






A Recipe for Me
By Martino T., Highland Park Elementary

2 cups of meanness
10 dashes of nerd
50 pints of video games
10,000 cups of asian
50 pints of chit chat
100 teaspoons of niceness
Add some hair too, about 100 cups
5 pinches of braveness
5,000,000,000 trucks of family orentatetion (orientation?)
10 pinches of fat
8 cups of violence
4 pinches of craziness
Put it all in a bowl
Mix it, bake it, microwave it too
Hopefully the result won’t surprise you.
But…
                You get ME!


A Recipe for Me
By Anthony W., Highland Park Elementary

One dash of love
and a tiny pinch of God
10 tablespoons of adventure
30 gallons of video games
chop up 10 fingers and throw ‘em in
also 10 toes
mix in organs
throw in a team
get a bulldozer and pour in
awesomeness

For today's video, we present a clip from the National Poetry Slam's Group Poem rehearsals in Central Park, featuring the solo lines from our NPS representatives Juvanni and Samari:



Suggested Hike/Walk
Schmitz Perserve Park, 54th Ave SW to Schmitz Blvd and Return (3/4 mile)

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