your vision, your voice
2017-18 Submissions
Sports are helpful they help
You with your health, you can lose weight.
To some people sports is their career.
To some people sports is the medicine to their sickness.
Roses are red violets are blue sports help me so they will help you.
Sports help you in many ways.
C.D. Fulkes Middle School
8
The salty wind blows my bag around,
While people shriek their joyous sounds
Hair twirling around my face,
I’m kicking sand all over the place.
The birds soar overhead,
Stealing food so they stay fed.
Now into the water I go,
Mesmerized by the ocean and how it flows.
I wade in ‘till the water is up to my waist,
Then I submerge my head even though it leaves a bad taste.
Under the water it is quiet and calm,
I feel a fish hit me as the waves push me on.
My head breaks the surface, I feel refreshed.
I see pelicans in the distance taking a rest.
I glance back to shore, my sister’s playing with sand,
My mom and aunt are laying down, trying to tan.
I start heading back, jumping waves as I run,
Stumbling and falling, but having so much fun.
C.D. Fulkes Middle School
8
We drove by the oceans
Drove by the sea
You can see all the animals swimming
In the clear blue sea
Fishes and turtles having
A relaxing day on the sea
Enjoying the sun and the warm water.
After an amazing day it came to an end
It was time for all them to go to bed
And have a great next day.
C.D. Fulkes Middle School
8
Who said, she said
There is a monster underneath my bed
It arose and hit it’s head
I thought they were dead
Who said, she said
Then it came out
Looking at me wanting to shout
And then it started to pout
Without a doubt
I started to shout
Who said, she said
When I got scared
It started to care
Then it became my alive bear.
C.D. Fulkes Middle School
8
Every day is the same thing for a lot of us. People who can do whatever they want are fortunate, like celebrities. You could have all the money in the world and still be lonely. We love the highs in life, but we have to get through the lows. You have to have a little sadness in your life so you know when the good times come. If you have light on light you have nothing, if you have dark on dark you basically have nothing. I hate people who commit suicide, I think they’re selfish and only think about themselves. These are my thought, these are the things I think about most of the time. I think about a lot of things but these are the main ones
C.D. Fulkes
8
My mom said there are no such things as dragons.
But I saw one eat a bunch of volkswagens,
And they were fifty feet tall,
Their feet quite small,
Oh those car eating monsters,
But wait they could be an imposter!
Posing as some humans aha!
MA MA, MA MA
We must go out to find them so many hunches so many clues!
It will be on the news
I see it now BOY CATCHES FIFTY FOOT MONSTER!
I can’t wait off we go to find the dreadful beasts
I will search the streets,
I will search the park,
Even in the dark!
I WILL FIND THOSE DRAGONS!
Gorzycki Middle School
7
We are in jail
and we can opt out for bail
Coach Neary monitors us like a hawk
But oh if we talk
You DETENTION
At least it’s not SUSPENSION
You why are you late, go back to class
I think that I’d rather eat some grass
no talking for any reason
NO Talking? I’d rather die for TREASON
Homework and reading nothing else
That’s it someone beat me with a belt!
We are in jail
And we can’t opt out for bail
Gorzycki Middle School
7
I had just gotten YOU back
From a disaster worse
Then when my brother cracked
I wish YOU didn’t get on that horse
I wish YOU didnt leave me alone again
I wish YOU would’ve stayed with me
Where I could protect YOU from the pain
I thought that YOU were the key
I didn’t know that death could ever follow one person
First my brother
Then YOU, I didn’t know it could worsen
I can’t lose another
I don’t know what i’m gonna do
I guess I’ll just have to watch the view.
Gorzycki Middle School
7
I am from Austin.
I am from the state of Texas.
I am from Mexico in my veins.
A quarter Irish. I am indigena.
And I speak two languages.
I am from tamales, pizza, candy, paletas payasos and bubu lubus.
I am from robots, Star Wars, and TV all weekend.
I am from ADHD. I am from a firework brain.
I am from, “Take your Ritalin,” “Make your bed,” “You’re white.”
But I’m not white, my skin is just a covering.
The inside is what makes me who I am.
I am from a mom and dad from different places.
One from Texas. One from Mexico.
A dad who doesn’t let me speak English to him.
I am from four brothers, but I only live with one.
I am from Grandpa Al who liked to eat fish. And so do I.
I am from my mama Tomasita and a walk-away great-great-grandfather.
I am from the roots of mama Celia, who still lives in Mexico today.
I am from abuela, abuelo, Grammy, Kappy, Grumpy, Nana, Nannie and Paux.
I am from uncles and tias.
I am from “Good morning, Silas,” “I love you, Silas,” “El flojo trabaja doble.”
I am from valuable pictures of the loved ones I have and the loved ones I lost.
I am from a loving family that will love me for a millenium.
I am from brothers that love me from the sky and from the earth.
I am from the heart of Texas and this is who I am.
Mexican-American. Bilingual. Me. Silas.
Perez Elementary
4
Flowers coming out to play, just like little people.
The world wakes up to the songs of birds singing
and the fields of sunlit grass as far as the eye can see.
The feeling of plain happiness fills the sweet smelling air.
Vibrant colors slowly cover up the dreary remains of winter.
Spring is spreading quickly.
Barton Hills Elementary
5