CHILDHOOD
Full of happiness
At one.
Start to walk
At two.
At three
Joyous as can be
All the while
Innocent as a newborn
At four
Cute as can be
And then School.
Everything Changed.
Meet friends
on the bus.
Wrong Ones.
Blow to the face.
Broken nose,
Cower in fear.
At eight,
I escape
I lose my faith
At nine,
Stress Explosion.
End of elementary
Now you are
in the middle
So big I could
get lost
New friends
New teachers
Fresh start.
The end
Is my beginning.
I was more than impressed..then we had poems from them individually, like these that I will now post. Enough said. Happy Thanksgiving and see you next week!!!
Bedtime
The time has come get the popcorn,
get the butter popcorn done
put the movie in
let's watch star wars
what?
where's the drinks no one knows,
we found them too late bedtime.
next night
get home from basketball practice too late to watch tv bedtime. Bed time is so frustrating thinking in my head on the bed. next day got home early I had time but home work came first
The Ride
By Sylvain MacGovern
What happened?
One second
A five year old
Careless
Imaginative
Not a care in the world
Free
But then
The dreaded
Big yellow bus
Huge kids
I mean
Third graders
What is this nonsense?
I try to back out
But the bus doors
Have already shut
The bus driver is looking at me
Telling me to find a seat
I look at him
Then decide I have no choice
I sit
And look out the window
Watching my parents wave me goodbye
The bus
Turns a corner
And seals my fate
Twenty minutes
Of fretful waiting
For the time
To meet my teacher
Who knows if
She’ll be mean
Or skinny
Or old?
Then
The horrible
Squeaking
Of the doors
Opening
Letting me
Out of the bus
I leave
I see another door
Opening
Letting me
Into
The school
That I have been dreading
Fearing
What do I do
I take a deep breath
And step through
The
School
Doors.
Track & Field
By Colin Monsen
Started in 2010
still doing it in 2015
wasn’t as good in 2010
as I am now but made it
to States
made it to State the next
5 years sprinting around
the track waiting for the
gun to go off
high jumping over the
bar waiting anxiously
for my name to
be called jumping over
hurdles sprinting then
jumping into the
long jump pit
so many track meets
all the times I
had to go against older kids
in my events always push myself
to be better that worked out
pretty well speaking that I got
first or second
in all my events
high jump record
5 feet long jump
record 13 feet and
10 inches hurdle record
14.67 seconds all
my personal best
got first, second, and sixth
out of the whole State of Maine
the only thing slowing you
down is yourself
keep pushing yourself.
