Potomac Elementary School
Upper School Student Poetry
2003 - 2004
6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Poetry written under the guidance of
Potomac Elementary School Poet in Residence Adam Golaski
"Snowflake"
by Lane L.

I woke up and I saw snow
falling from the sky.
Each snowflake has its own shape.
Every time one touches my face
it feels like I'm getting lighter.
This particular one falls
on my head, and next thing
I know is I feel all warm
inside. I feel so good I jump
in the air and I don't go
back down to the ground.
Then I can fly. I'm soaring
through the sky. It tickles
every time a snowflake touches
my skin. I feel light as
a snowflake. I get back home,
I let the snowflake go
and it sours into the sky.
When I went into my house,
my mom made me hot chocolate.
It tingles down my throat.
When I go to bed I see
that snowflake. I wave to it
and turn off the light. As
I started to go to sleep
I said tomorrow will be a
good day. But today was
an awesome day.		 "Darkness"
(an imitation of John Taggart’s poem “Sunnyside School”)
by Richard J.

Something that's always there near you
Always in the room
Even when light shines all around
Never will it leave you
Yet still you feel that you must try

If you succeed you may have inner peace
And so you do try

You take the best light you have
then
then you shine it
Filling the room with its shining light
Still in the end you fail
and the darkness lives on
And by
And by the darkness you are conquered
"Untitled"
(a found poem)
by Susan B.

I wonder if they could possibly be free,
are they choking like a lion attack,
that mysterious girl sits over there,
she feels hunted down like a dog,
her emotions rather run amok,
she left in June,
it is now October,
she feels lost & will not be found,
she is at war with herself,
she is lost.
He walked over to her,
long days have gone for them,
and now she is in the light.

"Alphabet Soup"
(a found poem)
by Jamie T.
Friday is alphabet soup
day. Is Powell
a former Russian troop?
Is salmon in alphabet soup?
Alphabet soup is illegal
in Los Angeles.
“Dangerous Eyeballs Live Outside Missoula…”
(a found poem)
by Andrea T.
Dangerous eyeballs live outside Missoula Authorities attempted
to bust them Tuesday.

“hook the mean disgusting tonsil!”
said Patty O’Keef to the Missoula Board of Maps.

“Vote it down!”
said horse shoe.
Subdivision Apple grove was
in concern

“We needn't have bother”
said the British
authorities. The discovered b-foot
mean muscle proteins.
Fright-fest?

 "Night Bird"
by Rachel D.

In a tree a bird sits tall
his wings spread wide ready for
flight. He looks for the current in
the wind to carry him to a far
away place. He leaps into the
wind and soars high to the end
of the atmosphere. His wing tips
expand out to all corners of
the planet. He is as black as
night. He is the night wrapping
the planet in a blanket of
stars. The moon is his eye
shining bright as to guide
the lost to safety.
Soon his journey will end
and he will return to his tree
to rest.
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