Author: GabriellaM

Midnight

Witching hour, pitch black, the moon is howling.
Windows closed, tight blinds pulled down,
Close the curtains and turn off the lights.
It´s time for the fright.

Lock the doors, turn on the alarm and doze off to bed.
Knock, knock.
Why is someone at the door?
The door creaks as I open it.
Wow! There is no one at the door.
I wonder who was knocking?
I’m just going to go back to bed.

Knock, knock. Creak.
Now who is at the door?
Don’t worry.
I’m tucked in tight.
Oh no, I didn’t close the front door!

Boone Elementary

4th grade

Music

Music! How it glides through my body
Like ghazals dancing through the prairie

Like an alligator pulling a wildebeest Into the water
It tackles every nerve in my body

Music! It lifts me like a pelican soaring over the ocean
It hugs me like pandas hugging bamboo

Music! It circles around me like a sly panther
But it also fierce like a lioness protecting her cubs

Music! Its calm and quite like the Amazon
It makes me feel alive every time I listen

As it lifts me, hugs me, roars at me ferociously
Takes me slowly, loves me

Jazz, rap, classical, rock, pop, country and so much more
Music! Oh how much I love it

Gorzycki Middle School

6

My Dreams

Whoosh! I went dashing through the water
Like a fish chasing bait through the water

Faster faster faster, Suddenly I am at the end
Its coming Faster faster faster

I run through the safari, I am as slow as a cheetah
I run till my legs hurt, Faster faster faster

Cackling as if it were a hyena, it jumps on me
tackling me to the ground, Janhvai janhvai janhavi!

Janhavi says, my sister, Come down for breakfast
I jump off the bed, It was all just a dream!!!

Gorzycki Middle School

6

My family

My family is a rose
It has a lovely scent and beautiful petals,
But it has thorns too
My family is a rose

My family is rich in culture and love
We are the Amazons
With crocodiles and hippos
Panthers and geckos
My family is diversity

My family is the night sky
Darkness mystery
Compassion, misery, love
My family is curiosity

My family, we are the planets
Each different and enlightening
With the sun, moon, earth and more
We are so alluring

Through the pitch black space
We have each other
That’s why we are family

My family, we are snowflakes
Different but still unique
That’s why we are family

Gorzycki Middle School

6

Man’s Best Friend

Man’s Best Friend

Long before man ‘fore he took his great height
The earth was but earth unburdened unkept
Trees stood mightily in day and dark night
Unfettered wildness in wilderness slept.

Now rocks we climbed high both rough and rigid
The Plains our playground in days stretched with fun
Mountains their majesty tall and frigid
The forests with paths to be found and run.

But trees bend,and break to the axe of greed
Plains once splay now stripped, striped for planes
Mountains cut, slashed for man’s great need
Last wilderness wildness bound and in chains.

sr’nity forsaken for savagery’s demise.
The worlds nature bought what money now buys.

Anderson High School

9th

Left then Loved

A letter to myself when I was born …

You will be born I say,
August 28th is the day.

No need to be scared when you come out,
Even though there will be a ruckus about.

After two years have passed,
The love from your family will last.

And last.
And last.
And last.

Gorzycki Middle School

6

The One Thing

The one thing that always keeps me awake,
The one thing that never ever goes away,

Stays down in the basement where nobody strays,
Stays below when day to stay in the shade,

Waits till dark to finally make his way,
Climbs up the stairway covered in his cape,

Looks for someone who stayed though it’s late,

To march up the stairs and come where I lay,
To slip his teeth into my throat and take me as prisoner far far away

Kiker Elementary

4

Nightmares

As the light slips away from the sky
The haunter of dreams begins to rise

One by one he collects his beasts
To invade the minds of children fast asleep

Witches, demons, even the dark, start to enter the dreams of children near and far

The children squirm on their beds as the devilish creatures control their heads

Then in the morning when the sun starts to appear,
The ghastly beings flee the scene until finally, their master fear comes near

Kiker Elementary

4