As National Poetry Month launches, we wanted to highlight the incredible poets in in Mrs. Briggs' 7th Grade ELA classes. Brief excerpts are available below and the full poems can all be viewed HERE.
I didn’t go to summer camp,
My social life needs a revamp.
I can’t come over after school,
I’m sure your Lego Death Star’s cool!
- Bella Wark
I want to take off my mask and breathe fresh air
And then I remember
Corona Virus.
- Anonymous
The wind is everything in between.
The wind will steal what is gently held.
- Anonymous
I am silence
I feel tension stretching
Inch by inch
- Sophia Ecker
It slides unobtrusively
Straightedges
To his sleeping mind.
Magnified and amplified
Inside his subconscious.
- Clark Abrahamsen
After days, no, years of anger
There seems to be little to argue about
But the hate still lingers
- Anonymous
When will we learn
Learn that hate is not the answer to disagreement
That words are stronger than the most powerful gun
- Anonymous
4. Feelings
Of lost life, of doubt,
Wars clouding their minds like spring with a drought.
- Anonymous
The missing aren’t missing
They’re only departed
For children remain children for only so
Long
- Merry Adrian
Hopeless.
If only I had been there
I could have saved him.
- Anonymous
How long has it snowed
Time seems to stop in its tracks
Snowflakes on my cheeks.
- Josh Trachimowicz
We believe different things
And have different opinions
But that doesn't mean we get
To be harmful to one another
- Addison Small
Peace had an impact
She left buildings intact
She called for change in a firm clear voice
Those who wished to stop her became queasy
Uneasy
- Anonymous
I strut down the street with my head held high.
I own the street.
Everyone bows down and whispers things about me that I hear every day.
- Anonymous
You just want to lay down for hours and listen to the relaxing noise, the fresh smell, and then
You get all wet, but in the end it was all worth it in the end because it was your time,
- Anonymous
I’ll get cutdown, but I will restore
A blade of grass Is forever
And more.
- Laura Leighton