Category: 2016-17 Submissions

Dad is the roar keeping us safe.
Mom is the eyes guiding us through life.
Rowan is the brain, thinking all the time.
Stella is the bones keeping us standing.
I am the heart keeping us together.
Reese

 

TOUCHDOWN
GOAL
PASS
POINT
DUNK
COMPLETION
HOMERUN

Catch, throw, dribble, strike
Run, tackle, jump, pike

The game is on
The fans are off their seats
Painted faces, selling corndogs
Weekend tradition
World tradition
ODE TO THE BALL
WE LOVE YOU!

 

Shining sabres in the sun

Twinkling maces so much fun

Rifles spinning and whirling

Flags tossing and twirling

Elaborate costumes and glitter galore

All over the stadium floor

The band blaring as they move

Across the field, they start to groove

Dance and technique is our number one goal

As we spin and dance, pouring out our soul

Our elaborate hair and sparkling boots are a hit

Our precision tosses timed to the music are a perfect fit

We step onto the field for our last and final show

Our stomachs flutter rapidly as we start to go

Onto the field with a huge commotion

Performing a near-perfect show filled with emotion

The marching season is over and finally ends

We have all become close, forever friends

United by hours of blood, sweat, and tears

Our marching band and color guard memories will play in our heads for years

 

James Bowie High School

9

As wonderful as a spoiled apple
That was left outside to rot,
Smelly, Brown, Flavorless
What can be better than that?

As pleasant as coal for Christmas
That you got for being naughty
Dark, Dry, Dirty
What can be better than that?

As pleasant as being alone at night
You don’t know how this happened
Dark, Scary, Creepy
What can be better than that?

 

Just the feeling of the water
Sent a rush through me
Every single cell was alive inside me
I could do anything
I was invincible
But now
Something distracts me from that rush
A negative electric charge
Now flows inside me
Thick grey fog seeps into my blood
And a blazing fire behind my eyelids
Blinds me
I surface and gasp for air
The wall fades in and out of focus
I can’t do it
I can’t stand the pain

 

LOOK!

Look here,

no here,

wrong way,

over here….

Your head spins like a top,
opinions tug at your hair,
yet,
your opinion is too scared to share.

More ideas baffle you,
they tug at your nose,
your ears,
your eyes,
your mouth……..
BAM!!
They run you you over like a truck
flattening you out……..
Nothing is left for you,
except a mind,
your mind.

Use that mind to think of a solution.
Resolve the problem.
Find your own way out.
just

look…….

 

You swam through the rivers,
You swam through the seas,
You swam through the oceans,
And swam right to me.
You said your hi’s,
And then you’re goodbye’s,
And then you swam back,
Into the beautiful sunrise.

 

gorzycki middle school

6

 

Help! Help! Help!

I can’t breathe under your stinky clothes,
I want to barf,I need to gag, Ugg.

I will do anything if you get me out,
Why would you do this to your brother,
I will tell mother!

Oh please, Oh please, let me out,
Help! Help! Help!

 

The pet turtle eats all our flowers,
He lays in the sun for hours and hours
He’s pretty fast
but his speed doesn’t last
Sometimes he sleeps
Or he’ll dig a burrow down deep
he has his own pool
he’s so cool
If only he was mine