your vision, your voice
2017-18 Submissions
The world is a messy place, no matter where you go or who you see there is always negativity. People always ask me am I lonely, but I just simply say “lonely is for people who are shut out by the world , but I shut out the world so therefore I am never lonely”.
LBJ High school
10
Transcending the binds of god’s eyes
The mind of man freed by the void
Frozen gales consuming all
Illusions created by forcefit lies
Satiated by suffering nothing is faithful
Winters eye is freeing the soul
Hallowed ice shatters all hope
Frozen to the core men will now weep
God’s cold wrath harvesting the liars
Wiping away their tears and sins
Meek men embrace their dissonance
Bathing in blood wrought by their ignorance
A world consumed by permafrost
Identity erased by winters gaze
WEISS HIGH SCHOOL
11
A book is a dream that
takes you away,
It brings you to a world,
a very special place,
A dream so good that you
can’t describe,
A book is a dream,
a book is alive.
Barton Hills Elementary
5
Wind blows, trees sway and rustle then the sun disappears.
The rain starts light and soft at first then hard
Before I know it,
Iit starts pouring.
I walk home splashing in puddles until thunder starts booming
And following after the thunder lightning flashes
I run
Listening to my feet hit the wet grass.
Finally I’m home at last,
But drenched head to foot.
Barton Hills Elementry
5
As I sit outside on a Fall afternoon I listen and gaze right up at the moon.
Trees move and sway in the wind and the sound of birds chirping calms me.
Leaves rustling, birds flying south for Winter I sit and wonder what life would be like with no sounds.
Boring and the same and we would want something not as plain.
Barton Hills
5
Soft as a bunny
Light as a feather
Wind blows slow but it blows fast
Spreadings its limbs for all share
Planted deep growing high
Waiting for the wind to come again
Barton Hills Elementary
5
Slow and steady
Win the race,
Well
That’s not true!
If I ran slow and steady,
I might look like you!
I like to run
fast
as the pavement touches
my feet.
When the racing gun
BOOMS!
I run to the sound
of the beat.
My shoes squeak
as I run
my shoes barely touch
the ground.
So with slow and steady
your gonna be last,
and that’s why I run
fast!
Barton Hills Elementary
5
My pet dog is a fat, lazy, but
adorable dog named Jazzy.
Chasing squirrels
Eating her dog food
Food scraps we give her.
Sleeping on her dog bed
Snuggling
With my other dog, Allie
and my blanket.
Barton Hills Elementary School
5
I go in my car, looking out the window
Seeing people marching for equal rights
People standing in a straight line yelling for Equal Rights.
Then people with signs
That says we want Equal Rights
People standing in front of the DC Capitol
Black people saying we want Equal rights
and then I see
Martin Luther King Jr
Things will be alright
Barton Hills Elementary
5
Oh how I love
This time of year.
Being with family,
and having Christmas cheer.
I sit by the fire
And stories are read
When lots of things
are going on in my head.
As I look out at the snow
I know someone is on his way,
to bring us gifts and to show us
Christmas cheer.
Not the toys
Not the food
Not the gifts for girls and boys
It’s being with the people you love.
Barton Hills Elementary
5