THREAT
By Shelby McMasters
Eagle River, Grade 4
A threat is a dull, dark day.
It will rush at you
like a wrathful bull.
It’s a terrible dream,
a needle poking your skin.
It’s the knife in you brain
that never goes away.
GO INSIDE
By Shelby McMasters
Eagle River, Grade 4
Inside this globe
I am the world-
the oceans, the land, the life.
My equator head
is swollen hot,
and my polar legs
are locked in cold.
I feel the pain and sorrow
of every body and every thing.
MODERN DANCE
(A tribute to Isadora Duncan)
By Megan Petersen
Bowman, Grade 6
Silently
Slowly
She moves across the stage
Leaping high
And landing low
She spins and twirls
Stretching a lone arm up
And pulling it down
as if to pull the sky.
HUNGER
By Michael Ross
Eagle River, Grade 4
Hunger is bold and fierce
like a cheetah
racing through a maze
in pursuit of his prey.
It tears at my stomach
like a lion
ripping at a zebra’s remains.
TORNADO
By Nicholas Gilmore
Huffman, Grade 5
dark storm
like a pitch black funnel
dangerously thrashing things,
would win the world’s
longest whistling contest
a dirt devil vacuum cleaner
cleaning up the dust.
