Broken Bones

My friend Fred, he broke some bones, but never broke the law;

when he broke his mandible, he really broke his _____________

 

Then he chipped another bone; he’s clumsy as can be

he cracked his left patella; that’s the bone that in his ____________

 

He got another injury when trying for some flips,

a break right on his pelvis, the bone quite near the the ____________

 

It really wasn’t funny, and it caused him some real harm

when he busted his right humerus; that’s in the upper ___________

 

He fractured eight phalanges; how he did it no one knows

but that’s a lot of bones to break in _____________ and in _____________

 

The time he hurt his femur, he let out quite a cry;

that’s the long and hollow bone that’s found inside the ___________

 

Last year he cracked his clavicle, the weather was much colder;

he also bruised his scapula ~ that’s both bones in the _____________

 

His calcaneus was wounded; imagine how you’d feel

while walking on a damaged bone that rests inside your _____________

 

He smashed his metacarpals and I’m sure you understand

how inconvenient it must be to break bones in your ______________

 

It was a painful tragedy; a cast my pal did beg

breaking tibia and fibula, both bones inside his _____________

 

The poor guy even hurt his skull; that’s what his records said ~

a nasty noggin bump that cracked the helmet of his ___________________

 

And so I’m sure that you can see that Fred has had no fun

breaking almost every part of his framework _______________________

 

Author's Note

My head is too full of science that I have to teach, rather than poems that I want to write. Go ahead and fill in the blanks! :)

Reviews

[redflutterby]

Love this one Rita!! Great way to teach poetry and science. ;-)

[Rita L. Sev]

Doing these helps me to enjoy teaching the science a bit more... Thanks, Red!

[Frieda P]

Holy fractured mind Batman, this is SOOO clever, you make us do the rhyming work eh? Just like a teacher!! Love this.......... ;-)

[Rita L. Sev]

Lol! Yes, I am forcing you to rhyme! But hey, you'll know all the bones when you're finished :) Thanks, Frieda!

[Frieda P]

You can take the teacher out of the school and all that jazz....ha, you're a clever devil Rita! ;-)