Category: 2017-18 Submissions

The abyss never ends.
It is just a deep dark hole.
Or could it be much more?
We’ll never know
what’s on the other side.

It could be a wasteland.
Barren and desolate
with nothing but sand.

It could be a paradise
where all wish to go,
It could be Heaven
for all I know.
I could read about it
In a book,
but I’ll never know
Until I take a look.

I could ask everyone in
the world.
No two answers would
be the same.
Then again no one would
understand my craving to know
what’s on the other side.

What do you think is on
the other side?
But is it really sane to think
there’s even an abyss at all?

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Boone Elementary

4th

Night is a void of darkness
as pure as the universe itself.
No one can see in that void of darkness,
and all that is heard is the soothing
hoot of an owl.

That is the Night
as the clock strikes 12
all the windows go out
like a deep empty abyss of nothing.

That is the Night
While chasing the blazing sun
the night is
creeping over the Earth
inch by inch waiting for sunfall.

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Boone Elementary

4th

Those pretty, blue eyes
bright like the cloudless sky
saying what words can’t tell
but pulling away as soon as she Fell.
That sweet, knowing smile
leaving a daze for the while
causing for her a dozen emotions
but creating her own tear-filled ocean.
So many things that she’d like to say
uncertainty keeping them all at bay.
Wishing she could simply spend her time
with the boy who failed to speak his Mind.

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Austin High School

10

Ice cream!
Some like ice cream, some don’t,
But I know I LOVE ice cream!
The sweet taste,
the coldness that freezes your brain.
There’s so many toppings you can get!
M&M’s, sprinkles, chocolate chips
You can even create a unicorn ice cream!
Ice cream is really cold.
If you stick your finger in it,
You might not even feel your finger when you get it out.

I love ice cream!
Especially with chocolate syrup on it.
Every ice cream is special in lots of ways!
My favorite ice cream is vanilla with chocolate syrup
and rainbow sprinkles.
Ice cream looks like a fluffy cloud but then you touch it,
it’s not how you expected,
it’s kind of hard,
really cold and makes everything numb,
but it’s really good.

I love ice cream!
It’s like you’re in a heaven of ice cream.
No ice cream is bad you just don’t like it,
but i’m sure other people will like it.
Most ice creams have a cherry some people like cherries some don’t. I don’t like cherries.

There are many ice cream cones i’ll tell you some examples,
There are chocolate cones,sprinkle cones,and many more I like the chocolate cones.
I wonder how many people like ice cream.
WARNING:DO NOT eat too much ice cream.(trust me.)

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Boone Elementary

4th

Early January.
There is nothing
quite as blue
as the sky today.
No clouds
to push the sun,
behind them.
This day
is a bright day,
a cold day.

Spring is still aspiring,
to push Winter away.
Not quite ready
to go
is Winter
still fighting to stay.

No rain,
at all.
Not one droplet
has fallen.
Even the stars
seem to be walking
in place.

On this early January day.

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Gorzycki

6th

Though you may run,
you may pace.
Sometimes in photos you fall on your face.
Even when it’s in the middle of a chase.

You can go 75 miles per hour.
I bet with that speed you could knock down a tower.
You catch a guinea fowl every hour.
No wonder you trip and get mad at power.

Wherever you go no matter the time,
You never ever hear a clock chime
That’s because there are no clocks on the savanna,
And no, when asleep cheetahs don’t say hana hana.

You see a chance bolting your way!
You respond with a simple “No” and leave it to stay.
The chance walks off with a quiet “Okay”
Off to ask someone else more brave.

You feel pain deep in your bones and you just want to run away.
But then you see another chance coming your way.
And this time you say, “Yes!”
You did it! It’s true!
You took the chance
Which made you feel brave.

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Boone Elementary

4th

Rain or shine, I’ll be there
Love or hate, I’ll be there
I will be there, I’ll be there

Mad or sad, I’ll be there
Worried or brave, I’ll be there
I will be there, I’ll be there

Hot or cold, I’ll be there
Opened or closed, I’ll be there
I will be there, I’ll be there

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Boone Elementary

4th

Love sounds like happiness in the air.
Love smells like sweet perfume in the city.
Love feels like my red fluffy shirt .
Love looks like one hundred blooms on a rose bush.
Love tastes like an ice cream sundae with a cherry on top.

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Boone Elementary

4th

My dog was walking down the the grass when a sudden chicken scraped her back. She ran away like the frightened mouse on the back of your house.

My dog went back and had the chicken on the ground like the ferocious beast she is in the night. Blood on my shirt everywhere if you mess with this beast you can’t go to sleep.

In the shadows in the night it looks like she is going to bite you for life. She ate the chicken said it was nice and hopes you have a good rest of your night.

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Boone Elementary

4th