Jack's Rainbow of Trains

Jackson Walter Fontano shares the same middle name as his great grandfather Alfred Walter Fontano.  Grandpa Al was a fun man and he used to write poems.  Many of these were about his sweet wife, Grandma Vi.  I'm just going to say that these are some of my favorite people,  I love them.  I miss them. Well back to Jack.  He is a bit of a poet as well and last week at school he pointed out his Rainbow Poem.  I think technically it is a simile but I am not very technical when it comes to my English.  I try to avoid things like punctuation and grammar so when someone throws out a simile I just say 'ah, poetry'.  It works for me. 

So anyway I check out this poem and naturally it was all about trains.  Well, almost all about trains.  Some mornings when I walk Andy to his class we walk down the red stair case and are able to see Jack's work on the wall.  I always stop to read it and walk away laughing.  The boy cracks me up.  This morning I grabbed my phone when we left the house so I could get a picture of it.

Here is Jack's Rainbow of Trains.  That is not the official title of his work, just what I refer to it as.  You may be able to read it right from the picture but if not you can simply read it below.



As red as James pulling a freight train
As orange as a fire burning in the boiler
As yellow as a steam rocket pulling seven cars
As blue as Thomas pulling a train
As green as Henry with a long train
As purple as the car parked at Wal Mart

By Jack