Books, Food, Dance and Travel
Bridges are a marvelous thing
Sometimes magical and mystical
Sometimes unnerving
Used to transport things
One point to another
Maybe because we don’t have wings
Strands of wire, rock, or steel
Beautiful designs and
Colors too! From orange to teal
Amazing things, so many ways
To create a brand new design
I must give praise
Page upon page upon page
From all around the world
The paper is their stage
Pages worn and curled
All of the colors, red to white
The cards still unfurled
All of them are a marvelous sight
Full of beauty and dazzle, uniqueness and more
The date and giver written to the right
On one a monument, on another a bookstore
Even more with jungles and houses
And even a beach shore
The postcards are diverse, every color and size
They truly are the most elite prize
This poem is written in the form of a Terza Rima! This type of poem is originally Italian and follows a unique rhyming pattern (aba bcb cdc, etc.) I hope you liked my terza rima!
For my English class, I made a poem about peace and how I would describe it. I hope you like it!
Peace is a view
One for everyone to see
Maybe it’s when the sun dips
Over and out, on the beaches of Hawaii
Peace is a sound
To be heard everywhere
A bunch of friends, perhaps,
Laughing without a care
Peace is a taste
Let everyone try
Like ice cream dripping down the side of your cone
While you join your friends nearby
Peace is a smell
Candles all lined up in a row
Quick, come and take a sniff
Before we start to blow
Or maybe peace is a feeling
For both you and me
The familiarity of chlorine infused water
Or swimming in the sea
A warm blanket, snuggle in
With your friends and family close
Because peace is a feeling
Much better than most
10 little balls
Filled with water and food coloring I see red, pink, orange, blue, and moreA little tag is attached to them
With a temperature Ranging from 96 degrees to 60A simple thermometer
Easy to use Read the temperature tag on the last floating ball and Voila! That’s the temperatureBlankets of snow cover the ground
Millions of people with their power out
Houses and trees and cars all covered in ice
Doesn’t feel great, but looks somewhat nice.
People without water, their pipes have burst
No price gouging is a rule that has been enforced
There is a boil water notice on all tap water
I hope that it soon gets hotter
The sun sets, marking the end of 2020
Starting a new year
The sandpiper runs
Towards a brand new year,
or away from a horrible, disaster filled 2020?
Or is it just looking for food?
I run
Laughing and playing with my family, carefree
But also cold,
and hoping the new year will soon come
Happiness runs
With all of us, making its way to the finish line,
the start of 2021
We will find it on January 1st among the ordinary things.
The sun sets with all of us running,
and it will rise to a new year
Another 365 days, before the next year
Let’s use these days wisely
I wrote the poem for my WITS writing camp with the prompt “Choose an abstract feeling and use concrete words to describe it”. Here is my poem.
Friendship is your favorite ice cream on a hot summer day
a tasty and welcome treat
delicious.
Friendship is being yourself.
Friendship smells like a warm ocean breeze,
inviting you in.
It smells like citrus,
calming and relaxing.
Friendship feels cozy,
It feels like you are cuddled in fleece,
cozy and just for you.
Relax and just
be happy,
with ice cream,
next to the ocean,
or at home,
You’re with your friends
We all sing America,
The future dancers, teachers, and musicians.
We all sing America,
We are here to protect and defend our culture,
no matter where we came from, because
We all sing America
the Indians, Japanese, and Australians
We all sing America
the land which keeps us free
We all sing America
everyone who lives here
We all sing America
and we stand together for everyone to see
I wrote this poem as a part of my WITS writing camp. Happy July 4th to everyone!❤🤍💙
Courage is trying something new
Courage is following your heart even when you’re not sure
Courage is knowing when to stop, but still being able to step out,
just a little bit,
out of your comfort zone
Courage is helping,
Courage is doing,
Courage is being kind.
We are made of courage
and we are here because of courage.
We need to be brave for ourselves and others.
In this world, we need to be courageous and share our voices. We need to be kind and open-minded. Be brave and kind! We can do this
This week, I attended the WITS poetry workshop, which Joshua Nguyen taught. We learned about haibuns (poems which have a paragraph in the beginning and a haiku at the end) and got a chance to write our own. I had so much fun with this and this is my haibun.
I wrote my haibun about a longing to be at the beach.
There is a longing inside of me to see a beautiful blue-green sea, slowly fading into dark blue. I wish to have my feet buried into the warm sand while a book captures my attention. I wish to be where trees line the background and I can sit peacefully with an ice-cream cone. I want to hear the shouts and joy of kids, but still live in my own world of tranquility. I want to relax in the shade of a tree while still staying warm, courtesy of the sun peeping through the branches. I wish to be as relaxed as I was there and never care for anything in the world.
I want to see the
wondrous ocean again
and relax, happy
What are you longing for during social distancing?
