Category: 2020-21 Submissions

The water glistens in the sun
It is cool and refreshing as I dip my feet into it
The lane lines move and make ripples across the pool
The flags sway in the wind overhead

I dive in to the pool
SPLASH!
The water dances around me as I move across it
My feet bounce off the wall as I do my turn

Swimming is everything to me
I wouldn’t know what to do without it
Whistles tweet, coaches yell, swimmers laugh, and the water splashes
This is home

The vibrance of colors make it stand out
Yet the difference of shapes make it laced
It shows animals and leaves that make it pop
All of the patterns make you stop
The animals growl at you
Threatening to pounce
Nevertheless
It’s comforting
Because it’s making sure you understand
For the reason of why you’re in this land.

Baseball is a sport for competitors,
There are 30 teams in the MLB.
On those 30 teams, there are 30 starting players
All 30 of those players have been competitors their whole life.
Baseball is fun when you succeed.
To succeed at baseball you have to,
Take risks, be good teammates, work hard, have work ethic.
BOOM strike 3, that is a success for a pitcher.
For some players there number means something to them,
It could be good luck for them or it can mean something in their life.
My baseball number is number 5. For me, it’s good luck.
It is also some of my favorite sports player’s numbers.

I’ve lived here most of my life,
I moved to Austin when I was two.
I wonder where i’ll live when I get a wife,
For all my life, this was the house I came to after school.

When someone walks in
All I hear is my dog singing
And my dad on a phone call.
My cat’s always lingering.

Sometimes I smell food.
Our house is pretty big
But when I go outside, EWW
Sometimes I smell dog poo.

Humans Vs. The Virus
It is like a war
One of History’s biggest fights
For every human in the world is stuck behind their door

No one is safe
For we are under a siege
Locked down at our homes until,
humanities savior arrives
And the virus it will kill

We will need an army
Big and strong
But not one made up of soldiers
The only army that can help us now
Is an army of vaccine

Waiting for it to arrive
As we all just hunker down
Our reinforcements are now coming
Coming from all around

Hopefully the siege will soon be broke
And we will all finally be free
Life will be back to normal soon…
Hopefully

Online learning is a NIGHTMARE
A Headache Waiting to Start
All Tangled Up in My Hair
Please don’t let it break my Heart
MAKE IT STOP!
Running around going Crazy
I would rather Go Shop!
Wishing I could just be Lazy
Or even write an essay
Maybe have a party
Hopefully it will be over by may?
OH NO I AM GOING TO BE TARTY
Soon it will be all over
Maybe if I just wish on a Four Leaf Clover.

Reality is how life really is for a person
There is an expatiton put out in this world
How you act
How you dress
who you are as a person
Your weight
Your height
How your body is shaped
If u have curves
If u dont
But what if u dont have the perfect body or personality
You are hated or disliked
Made fun of for how u look
But the one thing that hurts the most is being talked about for how you look
But that’s just reality.

Life is tough
so always remember
that you are enough
In the darkness you will find
an empty void that you call Life
but in the light you can’t sleep
So in the darkness is the key
the key to Life is having fun
the key to Life is getting things done
not to fast and
not to slow
just
follow
the
Wind
and
see
where
it
goes

This poem will be about colours
So be quiet unless your my mother
Everybody has a favorite one
Makes you fell like your in the sun
I really like the colour green
Especially on halloween
It also makes you feel like your in the summer
But if you are colorblind than thats a bummer
The colour green makes you feel so alive
Makes me want to go to a pool and try to dive
I would love to swim with the green
Its by far the best thing ive seen
Makes you feel in nature
Nothing like that flavour
And swinging threw a forrest
The best thing for a florist
You can swing threw like a monkey
You would feel so lucky
And thats my poem on green
Hope you leaned something

Title: Rainy Days

As I listen to the rain outside, I feel calm
So I sit back and relax
Every drop of rain that falls is so soothing just listening to it.
As I start to walk some more, I notice that there are quite a lot of bugs out. I guess they like it when it rains
But the problem with rain is that you get wet, and I don’t like to get rained on.
When I walk farther and farther, I feel the ground getting mushier.
But I won’t stop walking. I keep going and going and going.
‘Till my yard ends, then I jump the fence into my creek and see that there’s more water and tadpoles.
I get on to the rope that’s hanging from my trees and swing.

By Joaquin Gonzalez