My Poem Book

Fear

I am fear

You can't see me but I am there

I smell deathly and un-right,

I sound like screaming in the night.

I look like darkness in your house,

I taste like dryness in your mouth.

I feel like a cold chill down your spine.

I am fear,

You can't see me but I am there

-cowlover11, 5th grade

Nature

The trees were angels this morning,

seeming to bend their variegated boughs,

To bestow benediction upon my weary brow,

As I walked out my front door.

And driving along the hilly, back road,

I wanted to stop and merge forever,

into the misty autumn landscape.

For that peace is all

I could ever hope to become.

-Max Reif

Teachers

Teachers are a nusense

They bug you all the time

What kids really want to do

Is turn them on to mime

They tell you off by shouting

For things you never do

They listen to both stories

But believe the others, not you

They really do our heads in

As thats a teachers job

Their pretty good though really

Dealing with us unruly mob

-Becky Ginn

The Cows and I

As I was walking through the woods

I came upon a pair of cows

One black, a giant mother, her udder full

One white, her calf,

Standing in a muddy little pool.

I paused and leaned upon the fence.

I thought I saw the big one tense.

They fixed their wetted eyes upon my face

And stood stone still.

Neither moved in their respective place.

It came to me that they were awed,

The presence of Man in their humble spot

Before them, still and silent. Merely seeing

The mighty human

Of earth and creatures in it overbearing!

Or were they trembling at the sight

Of one whose dark green eyes were, like

The leopard or the lion, at the front?

A predator!

Perhaps a wolf-thing out upon the hunt!

And then a third idea hatched:

Perhaps I was being watched

By two strong beasts with proud and grand disdain!

Did they think me

An intruder in their domain?

Long I thought, and pondered this.

Was there some detail I had missed?

Some frightened chill? Some haughty frown or glare?

What did they think

Of me this silent as a stone still pair?

And then a light gleamed to life

In my poor, befuddled mind:

These two creatures simply didn't care

Who I was or what I was

They were hardly even conscious I was there!

-Sophia White

True Colors

You with the sad eyes

don't be discouraged

oh I realize

it's hard to take courage

in a world full of people

you can lose sight of it all

and the darkness inside you

can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors

shining through

I see your true colors

and that's why I love you

so don't be afraid to let them show

your true colors

true colors are beautiful

like a rainbow

Show me a smile then

don't be unhappy, can't remember

when I last saw you laughing

if this world makes you crazy

and you've taken all you can bear

you call me up

because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors

shining through

I see your true colors

and that's why I love you

so don't be afraid to let them show

true colors are beautiful

like a rainbow

True colors are beautiful,

Like a Rainbow

-John Hazon Palen