Book of Questions

Students at Pulaski wrote group poems in response to Pablo Neruda's "Book of Questions"

Eighth Grade Room 303 Book of Questions

In the quiet room do you use your imagination?
What if you were in a meadow, but just any meadow a dark meadow, the only sound is the wind?
Where is the wind? Do you feel it when it blows in your face, runs through your hair?
Where does the dark come from what is it made of?
Crumbs are sad but why?
Do you see dead people in your room?
What books make noise?
If the little piece from the back of my earring held my heart where would you keep it?
What would you do if you saw a homeless man that has nothing but dust in his hand and lived in a forest?
Can a ladybug hear music?
Why is your room squeaky?
Does heartbreak lead to death in a pain of silence?
Would you kill the ant, who has baby ants in it, in my room?
How quiet is it where you really are and just hang out there?
Is a lonely puppy in the night as sad as a penny is shiny?
Is there anything sadder than a person stuck in a wheelchair?
Is my room really quiet or is there just no sound?
Why did god make this world? Is it to show us something or to change how we act?
Where's the best place to imagine and what would you imagine?
Why does the dog stand in the rain alone?
Who is the most beautiful person in the world?
Why does the night show its life but does not speak with words but with the wind?


Seventh Grade Room 309 Book of Questions

Why is there nothing but air in the sky?
How would you feel if you went into a diamond room, with its great quietness?
Does nothing involve dust or dirt?
Does your sorrow fall upon you like a grain of sand in the wind or does it overcome you like thundering waves in a storm?
In my own world in outer space?
How many jelly-like bacteria would I find in a mountain?
Why are there dust mites in church doing nothing?
Why does the dog like to dance to Jazz on the New York City streets?
Do all puppies have happiness in the forest?
Why do I picture my future with darkness and echoes?
Why does the ant's red stuff cause craziness?
Would a bug be loud or six flags?
Why did Sponge Bob go to McDonalds with sand on his feet?
Can you imagine heaven full of nothing of nothing?
What would a germ do with a ball in space?
Is there a rainbow in Venus as thin as a hair?
Is there water in my room that could turn into music?
Why does my head have nothing in it?
Does a t-rex sniff pudding while putting his toe in apple juice?
Are there and bacteria with cream filling inside my closet?
In the cave with nothing but you would you see your guts and eat them?
Why can I feel my heartbeat in my head?
Why did ants go to the bathroom quiet?
Does a spider open space to a parallel universe?
There's nothing in my close but my pencil.
Would you find a milling dollars in the guts of an ant?
I wonder is an ant in the sky would have blood popping out?
Why don't ant's heads fear thunder?
Is dust worth 1,000,000 dollars or nothing?
If the soothing ocean would be white, would you feel good?


Seventh Grade Room 311 Book of Questions

Do crumbs make noise in a quiet basement?
Tell me is a rock shiny world and quiet as an attic?
Why are peanuts so tiny and don't taste like nothing in my attic?
Why does my heart beat louder than a beating drum?
Why does a dice have more than one face, and if I opened it up, will I find a coin in a lovely place?
Do you know if there are ants in the attic, if so it's a nasty world?
What house has the scariest attic with the cuckoo?
Do you think a germ has a world that looks like paradise and has your own house with soft music and a waterfall?
If you were to make your own world, what would you put and do in it?
I wonder if there is like in heaven or heaven and love in life?
Bacteria is my hand, why don't I hear anything at my house?
Why in the library do people have books about ants?
Does the flea library go whoosh as quiet?
How many books about germs are in the library?
Are the germ in the city are in my room?
Are there any little rocks in pebbles that are in the TV?
In my intestines, are there cockroaches in the library?
Is there peace, is there a closet, is there anything to talk to me like an ant?
What has bacteria and germs that snores?
Is there anything in outer space that is nothing?
What is a rock and sand that snores?
Is there another world for germs that has a Columbia?
Tell me why doe a chocolate factory have lots of candy but no animals to help eat it up?
What house is the most ugly and smells like peanuts but nothing's in it?