2018-19 Submissions – Page 37

Long Walk

Walking down to the old street,
Hearing voices, smelling scents of fall.
Winter will be here soon.
Birds flying across the sky,
I really want to rise up high.

Down there,
there’s houses painted in red,
Down there,
Who will be led?
Flowers growing wildly,
Like the end of the dryly,
Dryly summer.

When or where have I came to?
That little girl holding balloons says so too.
“It’s beautiful,”
I lowered my head,
“What is?”
And she takes the lead,
to the end of the corner,
opened the gate door,
to a place with full of flowers.
“These, oh, and the world.”

Back again on this street,
Birds chirping around the old trees.
Feels familiar,
End of another fall,
winter, and spring

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Kindness

Kindness is a flower,
when it blooms
it spreads,
like seeds in the wind

Kindness can be wilted like a flower without water,
by insecurities of those who crush with
mean remarks
leaving people out

But it can be grown
into something new

Kindness is everywhere,
compliments
apologies
laughs

It’s possible to spread kindness,
if all we do is try
by spreading seeds of kindness

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Beach

The sand tickles between my feet
The palm trees start to dance in the wind
My family and I sit and relax to the sun’s soothing heat
The ocean waves pounce on the sand
The sand always pushes the waves back again and again
There are the seagulls that rise in the air, with their wings in full command
I suck in the sweet smell of paradise like a whale coming out of the water for air
With seashells peeking out of the light colored sand
And the dolphins leap out into the ocean with bits of joy bursting out into the air
My sisters and I SHRIEK as stingrays pass us in the water
We burst out into a run toward the sand like a cheetah running after it’s prey
Once they are gone we drag our dad with us so he can have fun with his daughters.

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Christmas Day

On this crystal cheerful day
Is a tree bright as santa’s sleigh

Snow falling from the sky
As it melts I sigh

Wishing this day would slow down
My face slowly turns into a frown

My parents tuck me in my bed
I rest my eyes and rest my head

Dreaming about a year from today
When Christmas is back and I can shout HOORAY!

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Sun Kissed Memories

There was once a time

Where I resented those sun kissed memories

Ones where I sat under and azure sky

And let rose petals flood my vision

A place where tomorrow was reminiscent

Of a time before nothingness

And I was ignorant

To the woe

Of watching those roses

Wilt and fade

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Ups and Downs

Friendship is a seesaw.
It has ups and downs,
it could leave somebody in the ground
but it is a fun adventure,
just like a puzzled picture.

Friendship seems to last in the air for eternity,
but does it in reality?
Sometimes if you take it too far,
you might end up breaking it apart.

Friendship can lead back to memories
like the ones in good stories.
Even though it might not seem true
there is always a way back to you.

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SWINKIE

the orange and yellow whirls all on its surface
is the sleek clear wrapper
that will scamper to the trash
it reveal a delicious treat
its bright yellow flames
are the sweet chewy
golden outside cake
its rays
are the aroma it gives off
its core made of
deadly gases
is the fluffy frosted filling
that melts in your mouth

To me
The sun is a
Twinkie

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when Life gets Hard and it feels like you’re just stuck and you cant keep moving
your Best Friends are there to make sure you are okay
and sometimes it feels like they know you better than you know yourself
and when somethings wrong they Always know
and when Life is Good
Better than Good
when it’s Amazing your friends are there to goof off with
and It feels like almost all of your funnest most exciting moments are with your Best Friends
Best friends go together like peanut butter and jelly

You Always Need a B e s t
F r e i n d s

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Christmas Tree

Christmas tree
your stand tall and
free…

Your branches reach up to the sky
green and bright,
bright with shiny sphere,
spheres of different colors,
colors of the rainbow,
a rainbow that you reach…

The star on top of you
who rises beyond the rainbow,
is like a cherry on top of an icecream cone
your shiny spheres are sprinkles…

Christmas tree
you stand tall and
free…

Thank you for the
true meaning
that you bring to me…

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We Are the Elements

We are the elements,
just the four of us.
Fire,
with a burning heart.
Water,
kind and soft.
Earth,
almost stable.
and Air,
strong and happy.

but Earth is gone,
disappeared during a quake.

not much has changed,
but everything has.

the Fire is fading
burning out.

Water and Air have come closer,
descending into a fog.

and Earth is returning,
s l o w l y.

there was a disaster,
but it has started to fix itself.

we are coming back together,
the elements in harmony,
once again.

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