Category: 2017-18 Submissions

2017-18 submissions

The Forest

Like a garden rose,
it’s style is pose.
Like the sun’s light,
it’s just bright.

Like water moving
and owls hooting,
What a child sees
It’s all just a dream.

With trees and flowers
and water that’s gold.
With animals and insects
of new and old.

Two doors as bright as the sun
and with light beyond the Ocean
leading back to the city.

This may be a dream.
Is it real?
We will never know,
What’s in the forest.

Pillow

5

Your Mind Is An Abyss

Your mind is an abyss
Sinking, cherishing
every bliss
You can get

Devoid of color
Constantly switching
From one shade to another

Once dark, once light
There’s no in between
I wish you could see
How much the lies
Won’t leave you be

You lock yourself in
The ones who’ve stayed
Always willing to listen to your sins
And be the ones you won’t let get away

Waves rise around your fragile feet
We hear the silent scream
Yet you do nothing but let it take you
To a world with no dreams

You’ve said it before
A black and white door
Waiting to be opened
Your decision poor

You’ve been caught in a trap
Imagination closed with a cap
Been made to believe
Safety is impossible to receive

Bowie

11

The Thickest Test

Today is the thickest day
it is so thick, like a thick book
it’s like my life is thick.
My pencil is thick, my eraser is thick, thick, thick,
everything is thick, but my book is the thickest of
all it is thicker than anything you can compare it to.

Second by second it is getting thicker and thicker,
but wait it stopped,
except one last thing, the test.

Hart

4th

Love

Can one explain how
love works
Can one know that
Love
Hurts
One must know how love is
No
Toy
However it can fill two
Hearts
With this magical joy
Love
Is
As old as
Time
And love is always
New
Maybe we’ll soon have
The courage
To say I love
You

Joslin

5

The Sad Porky

The Porky is sad no one wants to hug him.
He said, “Why don’t you want to hug me?”
The bunny said, “Maybe next time. I think I might have left the stove on.”
Then Porky felt so sad that when he cried his tears sounded like rain
splashing in puddles

Hart

4th

The House

Come in if you dare. You’ll be in for a scare. Listen to the wind howling, then you see someone drowning. You scream for help, then you hear someone yelp. RUN! RUN! but then you’re done.
HA! Trick or Treat it is Just Halloween!

Hart

4th

My Unicorn

My little Unicorn
Always on my side,

I always want her to be there,
Because then together we can glide.

She’s always sparkling,
Always in my heart,
We will always be together,
Because she’s sweet like a tart.

So loyal!
So kind!
She’s special like no other.
No one can replace her.
No one can be the same as my little Unicorn.

Patton

3rd