8th Grade Poetry Café 2014
To all of you who were able to come to Poetry Café to support the 8th graders, thank you!
Below you'll find some of the poems our audiences wrote on the tables. I am a river bed A surprise of sparkle and a leap of cool peach. Love has a sweet Joy does too but being mean is not nice. Narrow routes and miles to go. A dreamer is happy and has no fear of the morning. Mama said ashamed is where I live. Dancing is my life I’m strong and the leader I can be free and who I want to be. You were invisible to me at all the wrong times. Deeper details of you criss-crossed my mind awakening me. From me, pressure, praise fail, secrets to implore. You can not have love without life But there is no meaning to life without love A ruby is red but very bright It shines like a diamond in the light I wish I could shine bright like a ruby But I just stick out like a sore thumb It doesn’t matter what people think of you, It matters what you think about yourself. Discover happy stars! We may not be friends today But tomorrow could go another way Death is not as bad as it seems Just a change from is to was. When I look at the sky When I look at the sea When I look at the forest I think of peace Cool red Cool blue Cool green Cool apples Like I said, Cool stuff! You and I want each other without wounds He never did rescue us I can see the yellow lies frozen in time. Close your eyes Reach for the stars This land is ours. Fly away with the power of poems. Never look down and keep writing. Don’t let anyone stop you at all. I am bright. I am all the way around prayer. I am driftwood on a creek. I am the brown haired sister imagining tomorrow. I would like to thank my arms for always being by my side, my fingers because I can always count on them and my legs for always supporting me. #poetry Written in these walls are the stories I can’t explain . . . The day is longer without your poems and performances. The lifeline we have is up to us. Roses are red Violets are blue and I love Poetry Cafe! Happiness is in the heart not in the circumstances. |
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