Category: 2019-20 Submissions

Boxed up

In life I’ve been shoved into a box that I can’t get out because when I try getting out there is always someone to close the lid and shove me back in and no matter how much I try, I can’t. When I was a freshman I tried showing my true colors but when I would, I would get stink eyes and names and rude gestures that I wish people would get rid of and some of that time I wish that they would just stick it up; at themselves. Sometimes I would be scared for my life because I was threatened by people who had called me names and know they try jumping me.

Window

I looked out my window and wondered about life.
My neighbor was again trying to sell his “Twife!”
The steam in the distance, global warming is the blame.
The squirrel has stolen an acorn, now he’s having shame.
Then I walked out there,
with a stare,
plopped down on a chair,
and bought the Twife.

Blood and Bones, Sticks and Stones

My heart is wrought of iron
My mind is cased in steel
My bones are made of diamond
wrapped from head to heel

My skin is strung of turquoise
My hair is forged of gold
My eyes are raging fires
Secrets they must hold

My lungs are hollowed topaz
My blood runs liquid silver
My muscles burn with bronze
A flexing copper river

My lips shine like clear glass
My teeth are opal daggers
My nails are dipped in emerald
And sharper than the latter

My tears slip like sapphires
My screams scrape red like rust
My lashes glint with onyx
Dark and without trust

My armour made of metal
My shell, cast and sealed
Has covered me for so long
I’ve forgotten how to feel

Yet there is only one thing
That can crack this shield of mine
Love can rust the toughest metals
If you just take the time.

Falling

When I go to school I get really bored, like a monkey as stiff as a board!
But one day the school floor caved in! So far the hole was AS DEEP AS MY SHIN!
It got bigger, and we started to fall, going away and away from school!
“Sit down, Miachel!” “Aww.”

Bus

Do you see that yellow bus waiting for us? Well yeah! The bus is calling! When I go on the grand bus, I see my friends. The bus starts to get loud. The engine starts to get loud; children begin to scream and, we start opening our backpacks with work and the bus moves. There is a land on the earth called the school. This school is majestic. We get to learn math, reading, science, and there is much more to learn! But at the end of the
Day, we have to leave to another majestic place called our house where we spend time with our family and do what we want to do. The next day we get to repeat the cycle.