Poems With Lois Letchford: I Am Boom

12 May 2021 · 2 min

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In this YouTube video, author and literacy advocate Lois Letchford, known for her memoir Reversed, introduces herself and reads the children’s poem “I Am Boom” from Jack Palutski’s The Dragons Are Singing Tonight. The performance vividly personifies a thunder dragon, describing its colossal size and elemental powers—whirlwinds, cyclones, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and more—through rhythmic, rhyming verses. Throughout the reading, Lois emphasizes the poem’s rich, fantastical language and encourages viewers to engage by liking, subscribing, and exploring the rhyming and imaginative words used by Palutski, inviting them to share the poem with others.

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Hello, I'm Lois Letchford, author of the book Reversed, a memoir and a literacy problem solver, reading the poem I Am Boom from The Dragons Are Singing Tonight by Jack Palutski. I am Boom, the thunder dragon, taller than the tallest trees. I stir whirlwinds when I whisper, mighty cyclones when I sneeze. Fishes slither in the ocean when I tread upon the shore. I make earthquakes and volcanoes when I roar, roar, roar! I am Boom, the Thunder Dragon. All the earth is my domain. When I flap my wings in fury, I create a hurricane. Lions vanish at my footsteps, eagles tremble at my glance, and the mountains start to rumble. When I dance, dance, dance, giants fly into a panic. When I rear my massive head, when I snort my searing fires, fearless ogres faint with dread. If you ever see me coming, you had better give me room. I am Boom, the Thunder Dragon. And I am boom, boom, boom! Enjoy! Hit like, hit subscribe, find the rhyming words, find the fantastic words that Palutski uses, and share this poem with others.