Gumball Poetry - Poetry by Chloe Hagerman

Chloe Hagerman

Hello, May!

"Hello, buddy May! How are you today?"
"Don't talk to me, Kay! I've been sulky all day!"

"Why, may I ask, are you feeling so glum?"
"I don't want to talk now, you fat purple plum!"

I sputter and think, she's called me a plum!
If May just insulted me, she's must really be glum!

"Are you just going to stand there? " May shouted into the phone,
"No," I said. "Of course not! You just seem so alone!"

"I am so alone!" May shouted out loud.
"My troubles are floating, all cramped in a cloud!"

"What is your problem? Your lizard turn brown?"
Then I heard a loud CRASH as May slammed the phone down.

Chloe Hagerman is ten years old, her birthday is March 25th, and she has a mother, a father and a big sister.

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7.25.2000
Jasmine from newmarket, ontario

very well done
My first response to the poem was "how juvenille!", but after seeing the poet's age, I was impressed. For her age, she writes very well. I think this is the work of a promising young poet.

7.12.2000
Andrew (uxr8xr@bournemouth.ac.uk) from England, Bournemouth

This girl should write illustrated books!
The one line said it all really. I mean it. Nice extravagantly printed, gorgeously illustrated poetry books. Like the Happy Hockey family book.

5.04.2000
Joe Bangert (jmb488@psu.edu) from University Park, PA

Cute, better than most adults.
A little overkill with the rhyming in the first two sentences, and I personally don't like hearing two key rhyming words heard twice in one poem (PLUM and GLUM). I always begin with the bad and proceed from there. Excellent poem overall. I very much enjoyed reading rhymes in a poem, which has become a rarity nowadays. I got more out of this then any poem I have read in a long time.
With such few words May came to life very quickly and I felt as if I knew exactly who she was and why she was alone.