Potomac Elementary School
Middle School Student Poetry
2005 - 2006 Page #4
6th, 7th, and 8th Grade Poetry written under the guidance of
Potomac Elementary School Poet in Residence Alex Tinari

Ode to Mr. Williams
by Ethan Hall

Mr. Williams is so knowledgeable with wisdom,
as bright as the sun, as tough as a gorilla.
He is like an eagle – he keeps his eye on you,
does not let anything by. He is like a fox, so fast
with his answers.

Ode to Rain
by Erin Michalak

Rain is a blizzard of water.

Dropping every millisecond.

Unpredictable as it splatters against the steps.

It will go away, but it will come again. Watching in the clouds for a target to it.

It comes down on the way home from school.

Wondering, will it rain for minutes, hours, or sometimes days?

Has the rain gone away when I see colors, colors that are familiar to me?

Will the rain come again like a blizzard of water?

 

Ode to Mr. Williams
by Hannah Cook

Mr. Williams, you teach us
about the sediments
and geologic process
of uniformitarianism
and catastrophism and
about paleontology and
I have no idea what
I’m writing about,
like a lost person
at an amusement park.

 

Ode to Fire
by Cami Grills

Flames in the night illuminate the forest.
Fire in the night keeps me warm.
Keeps the cold at bay.
Keeps hungry beasts away.
Sparks to me are like twinkling stars.
Flickering, flickering.
You may be allies with fire’s mortal enemy:
Water.
Fire cannot be forever destroyed.
Flames are a wild spirit.
Only those who truly understand fire
will not be destroyed by it.
At the end of time, fire shall destroy the unjust.
Beautiful, steady flames.
Burning, merciless fire.
Fire. Fire.
A giant ball of flame.
Fire is in us all.
Ruler above all elements.


Lanugo (a fake definition poem)
by Alex Tinari

Lanugo is a tree with feathers
for leaves. In a wind storm
they all thrash wildly
like the snakes of Medusa’s head.
How heavy those snakes
must be, how bothersome
to catch enough mice
each day for their meals.
After they are swallowed whole,
do the mice enter
her brain? Do their eyes
look out from hers? When it rains,
the tree feathers are still
and dry. A few dive down.
The snakes’ skins shed
and Medusa brushes them out.

Boys and Girls
by Allyson Stiner-Ployhar

Some of the differences between boys and girls are:

(1) Approximately 90% of girls are good and sweet and 10% are not as good. With boys, this is not exactly true. With boys, I’d say 12% are real good and 88% not so.

(2) Boys’ faces most commonly get red when they’re working hard at a sport or something like that. Every once in a while, a boy will blush. With girls, our faces get redder a little easier. Most of us, when we laugh too hard our faces get red, and when we blush, and in some other events.

(3) Boys (a lot of them) are pretty immature. At a certain age, girls can also be immature.

(4) Boys are more rugged than girls (most of them).

(5) Boys hang out and play video games and bicycle or whatever they do. Us girls do girly things (most of the time).

(6) Boys hardly ever change their looks for girls. However, we girls change our whole hairstyle just so they notice, but they never do. Well, maybe once in a whole great while.

(7) A guy never notices if a girl likes him. If a guy likes a girl, he’ll pretend not to like her, sometimes even pick on her. Girls don’t do that. Well, OK, maybe we do it every once in a full moon.

(8) If a girl and guy like each other, boys (not all boys) will like the girl for what she looks like. Girls aren’t like that. Well, no…ok, fine! Looks may have a little bit to do with it.

“No! Yes! No! Yes! No, I am definitely not! Yes you are!”
(“Maybe we should tell them what we’re arguing about?”)
“Fine, but I am certainly not boy crazy.”
“Yes you are.”
“No, I’m not.”
“Come on, tell the truth.”
“OK, fine. I am not! Well, ok, maybe just a little.”

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