This week, we present part two of a special summer feature, presenting poems written by local elementary students. The first installment ran in the June 19 issue.
Diamond Poems
By Rosemary Martin
6th grade
Sun
Brilliant Luminous
Nourishing Energizing Warm
Space Astrolabe Luminary Syzygy
Bewitching Orbiting Cold
Ominous Celestial
Moon
Winter
Dark Frozen
Sledding Snuggling Caroling
Seasons Celebration Memories Vacation
Swimming Exploring Biking
Bright Muggy
Summer
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What Is Joy?
By Rosemary Martin
6th grade
Joy is something you find in a child
Joy is something you treasure
Joy is something you chase after during life
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Free Verse
By Rosemary Martin
6th grade
Have you ever felt alone?
It can be rather depressing
Interaction takes all your energy
You feel genuine but still have to fake the smile
To stop overthinking will take a while …
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What Happened
Henry Pinkelman
6th grade
I am the second brother,
I stand tall and mighty over Manhattan.
But slowly a plane is coming closer, and closer, and closer,
Everything is moving almost like time stopped.
I think to myself, “What is going to happen”
I feel a big crash,
Like a bird hitting my window but stronger, and bigger, and hotter like never before.
I hear echoing
But not like the echo I used to hear,
No, it’s loud and scary echoing.
I smell burning steel,
Like I’m being cooked.
I see people running faster than ever before.
I’m falling
There’s rubble around me.
Good bye.
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What is Acting?
Aubreigh Rocha
6th grade
A momentous feeling of freeness
My safe space
Somewhere anyone can be anything
My world
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Tanka
By Jason Evans
3rd grade
I love my two dogs
I love Jessie and Bubba
Jessie likes to play
Bubba is shy and friendly
We are happy together
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What Is Happiness?
By Preston Wark
4th grade
Happiness is my cat greeting me when I open the door.
or when my dog lays on my bed as big as a boat.
It is when there are no clouds in sight
or when I get all the answers right.
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I Am
By Tuxten Trent
3rd grade
I am happy and awesome
I wonder a lot
I want to have fun
I feel happy why people like different things
I worry about not finishing my homework
I cry when people die
I understand why people like different things
I say funny things
I dream BIG
I try hard stuff
I am happy and awesome
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I Am
By Aubreigh Rocha
6th grade
I am intelligent and silly
I pretend I am where I hope to be one day
I feel the hot summer breeze
I touch the cold fast flowing ocean
I worry that I will miss out on the path to my future
I cry that I shall not succeed
I am intelligent and silly
I understand that I am who I am
I say I will restore this world
I dream to fix people’s actions
I try to be a better person
I am intelligent and silly.
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Blox Fruits
By Ari Cortes
4th grade
Pirates and Marines
Many of fruits, swords, and fighting styles
First, second, and third seas
Aura, air jump, dash, and flash step
Thousands of levels and players
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The Days That Pass
Michaela Li
5th grade
Waking up is like a chore, always tired all around the clock,
Everyday’s the same as yesterday and tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.
Will the day for me to rest ever come?
I spend my nights without dreams,
Only in a empty void alone.
Everynight I call out to the darkness
Oh God, when will my time come?
I never get a answer
I only run through the endless darkness for a way out,
Only to wake up in cold sweat just like yesterday and the day before that.
Oh God, when will my time come?
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Hard working
By Emma Giesler
4th grade
By the time the sun rose
I was ready to wake
But by the time the sun set
I was wanting a break
But I didn’t stop
And I didn’t quit
For my hard work will pay off in a bit
