Month: January 2019

Significance Of A White Coat

Football this basketball that
It’s all I ever hear
but nothing about the white coat
that helped to heal your arm
when you broke it
or the white coat
that was right by your side
making sure everything was good
while you laid on that hospital bed
No
it’s all about the man who kicked a ball into a net
or ran a ball to the touchdown
stop to think
that the person who wears the white coat
is one reason I’m here watching this game today
not the person on the field
or on the court
No
but the person in the white coat

Lyndon B. Johnson High School

10

Drive

I feel it.

The pulse of desire
Pushing the blood in my veins
To each crevice of my being
And pulling it back
To my heart.

The crash of my feelings
Pulling my diaphragm
in,
and out,
Forcing my lungs into regular breath.

The steady cycle of my emotions
Driving me forward,
Inch by inch,
Minute by minute,
Step by step.

That glorious, terrible lump in my core,
Where my feelings find lodging,
Propping my eyes open for yet another

Day.

McNeil High School

9

Nobody Knows

Why is everyone
So afraid
Of death?

Is it the unknown?
Or is it the known?
We don’t know where we go
Upon our departure,
But we do know that which we must leave.
We know everything that we are leaving behind,
At least temporarily.
Friends,
Family,
Belongings,
Memories.

But where do we go?
That we do not know.
So why be afraid?
We know death is certain,
Why not be
Excited?
We will be leaving many things,
But what we find could be better.
Who knows?
I don’t know,
But,
Personally,
I am excited
To find out.

McNeil High School

9

Wonderful Fall

Leaves crunch under my feet,
As the cold brisk air brushes against me.

A warm cup of apple cider,
makes my hands feel happy.
I bite into a piece of pumpkin pie,
and identify the strong flavor of cinnamon.

I watch as the red, orange, and yellow leaves sway on the trees, as I think about my love of fall.

Barton Hills Elementary

5

Poems

In a world of imagination
Many topics waiting
To be written
By a poet eager to get
some inspiration
for a piece of
lines, stanzas,
and words clumped
together to make a miracle of writing
in books paper
everywhere
in genres of
mystery, love, humor,
joys, sorrows, nature
up to down
left to write
scribbling across the page
marks
this is where I come from
from people who write
an unusual
work of art
I am a poem

canyon creek elementary

5

Growing

As a little ball
Sleeping with joy
Two grown ups
Hover over your face
As you take your first bite
As you wobble and fall
Babble to talk as it’s
A new baby language
A first for a ride
On wheels of wonder
A place where you have
Never been is in front
Of you with tons of
Knowledge to suck in
For a new journey
Is awaiting in a
Whole other year
New people waiting
To greet you
Fractions waiting to be learned
Life waiting to
Reveal itself
But best of all
More friends awaiting
You grow through the years
You cherish the good
Care for the bad
Make a new life
Start new love
Help the poor
And at the end
When you have learned
That will shift into a new journey
New pictures and memories to make
A whole new path to
Discover
Uncover
Recover
A new growing destiny

Vacations

Packing a ton of stuff
Going to another place
Somewhere in the world
To someplace where
New experiences await you
Above gravity
Because you passed security
And landed to where
You will sleep for a time
And wake up to find
A medicine for hunger
So you can
Go on and go places
Where others have come
To see if the things
They heard or saw
Are true
Then to come back home
And shower up
For another day
Until it’s time to leave
Your relaxation
From vacation

Overflow

It’s dripping on the floor,
now it’s coming out the door
the puddles growing larger
cleaning it is harder
it won’t stop coming
there’s something wrong with our plumbing
we better get swimming
our chance of being dry is slimming.
It’s going out the hall,
now mothers gonna bawl
All I have to say,
is never let your rubber ducky stand in the way
because now the tub is overflowing
now we best be going.

Gorzycki Middle School

12