Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Response to "An Alchemist" by Adriaen van Ostade (1600s)















I feel very tired.
The smoke is blowing in my face.
I am very sad to do all this work.
My arms are getting tired
because I keep going
up and down
up and down
up and down
with my bellows.
My tummy is gurgling of hunger
because I'm poor.
But if I keep doing my work
I can earn money for another meal.

By Oliver, Angeliese, and Alice

2 comments:

kjschmidt said...

Great work! My arms feel tired just reading your poem!

Flopie said...

Nice poems - where does it come from? The illustration comes from Adriaen Van Ostade. This is a very interesting artist. Have you seen the Merrymaker painting . It is so full of life! A song in itself.