The tearful alligator
traveled as the breeze blew
in Siberia.
The alligator is happy when
the sun comes out
and goes in the lake.
The alligator is sad when
it rains, and his friends
don’t play with him.
One day,
he went to his friends’
home to ask them to play.
They said yes, and
they played tag.
The alligator was feeling good!
Jordan J. was a Mighty Writer in the 2nd grade and is remembered for her smile and meticulous attention to detail. She’s now in 5th or 6th grade but left this poem in the Mighty Writer’s archives. She attended the program daily when she lived in South Philadelphia and is now believed to be in a ‘writer at large’ in Germantown.