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3 David Bodnick 4 Allison Boyle

5 Melina Davis

6 Oliver DeWolf

Douglas Green Casey Greenfield

10 Vanessa Grloriadis 11 Alejandro Heyworth 12 Rachel Hockhauser 13 Ornar Jadwat

14 Jonathan Levin 15 Zachary Levy 16 Tamar-a Nadel 17 Anne Neider

18 Juslin Pomerantz 19 David Slu

20 Frederick Stanton

21 Sasha Tindall 22 Karim Torres

23 Edwin Williamson 2ij Thomas Yih

25 Carlota Zimmerman 26 Rikki Ades

27 Christine Bader 2B Maggie Bauza

29 Sonni Clarke

30 Michael Cooper 31 Chris Criscione 32 Walter Daluz

33 Bryan Dougherty 34 Kate Edelbaum

35 Amber Ephraim

36 Beth Feinberg

37 Tyreta Foster

38 Ruth Golan

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39 Kysha Harris

~o Charles Hayes ~1 Miranda Langan ~2 Angela Lee

1j3 Jason Levien

Ijlj Paul Lorimer

45 Nnenna Lynch 116 Maya Rao

47 Michael SiU

4B Elinor Tatum 49 Kelther Wilcox 50 Peggy Ylh

51 Josh Benjamin

52 Lakmlni Besbroda 53 Jennifer David

54 Doni Gewlrtzman 55 Jimmy Harper

56 Benjamin Hollister 57 Leah Hughey

58 Nigel Jones

59 Sue Karakhan

60 Shola Lynch

61 Jane Miller

62 Danielle Reed 63 Adam Rosenthal

64 Robert Schonberg 65 Joanna Spencer

66 Erich Strom

67 Amy Ucko

68 Kyle Williams

69 Caryn Adelman 70 Courtney Aison

71 Elitabeth Cammack 72 Lisa Ferguson

73 Gabrielle Friedman 74 Micah Goodman

75 Avril Haines

76 Quinn Law.ery

77 Gillian Lippert

7B Dara Myers

79 Abigail Muraskln 80 Michael Newsome 81 Mayumi Oishi

82 Jillian Perlberger 83 J orgette Ra mo s

B4 Ethan Riklene

8S Adam Smith

86 Geeta Tate

87 Mollena Lee Williams 88 Eric Wolff

The Waterways Project of Ten Penny Players has been able to present a poetry program at Hunter College Elementary School through funding support from B Dalton Bookseller and the Hunter College Parents Association.

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DAVID BODNICK

The snow ful snow.

The snow The beautiWe need the snow

because its nice. It's nice. It' 5 beautiful and not ugly. It's the best in the world. The best The best The best

in the world.

The snow is important It's good not bad

l t+s wonderful The best in the whole wide world.

I love the snow

1 t 's wonderfull

Not nice It is the best

the best in the whole

wide world.

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THE LETTER P Allison Boyle

P is for punk rocker

who plays the weird music, P is for play when you play with your toys. This is

the end there is no more

so if you ask me why

I will say please let me go.

thank you for letting me go.

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MELI NA DAVIS I am

Mrs. Barbra Walters and

today

it will snow. You will get covered

with snow if you don't listen to me.

Good By.

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PIGS

Oliver DeWolfe

Pigs a re nice. Pigs are pink. Pigs are cuddly Pigs go 'oink' Oink, oink

Oin, O-I-N-K

Pigs have eyes, but no nose Instead they have

a snout OINK Pig!

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SEAN GRANT Alphabet

Books

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Dance

Energy

The alphabet is in books and the letter C is in the alphabet Dancing begins with D that is

next to E in the alphabet.

This took a lot of energy

in !Try hand to writ~ this.

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FUNNY WORDS

Douglas Green

iggle shrook falole da These are funny words. They are silly

They are dumb

They are vet"y funny.

The End.

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BEARS Casey Greenfield

Bears are peaceful, bears are nice,

bears play in the stream with their mothers

watching them.

Bears are furry. but sometimes they are dumb.

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CATS

Vanessa Grigoriadis

Cats, cats are nice, cats are sometimes dumb but most of all they are furry and cute.

I have a cat, her name is Pebbles.

A II cats are cute. I like cats.

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SHEET Alejandro Heyworth

What is it? Sheet

What is it made of? Cotton

What are the colors? Blue, white, purple, plnk , green

W ha t does it smell like? No smell. What do you hear? No noi se.

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SPEAK

Rachel Hockhauser

Speaking is good Speaking is fun When you speak

you can get more thoughts out of you

than when you touch

or hear or see or smell.

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WATCHES Ornar Jadwat

Watches are nice. Watches are fun. Watches are intell igerit. Watches wake people up. Watches help races.

Watches play music. 2!-:.,

Watches have ~ IS

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JON LEVIN

This is weird This is clean

lid like to put this

in the washing machine.

THE JUICE MOOSE Zachary Levy

The juice was in the moose when I drank the juice.

I said [ saw a juice moose. But noorie believed me and

I saw another and aNother and a Nother and aNother and a Nother and another.

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A-B-C-D-E. LETTERS Tamara Nadel

The alphabet" has twenty six letters

You should use dancing words to write me a letter.

I like the letter C.

Cause itl s in words that have

energy.

I like the words in books, Cause I like their looks. Why?

I don't know.

But I like books.

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SKATES SKATES

Ann Neider

Skating skating is fun.

I like to skate.

Skate skate skate

All I do is

Skate skate skate.

Do you do you

like to skate? Yes Yes Yes

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PIGS

Justin Pomerantz

Pigs are fun,

they' re ~y favorite thing and all my friends like

the same things -as me.

Pigs are very nice,

but they're also very dirty. Pigs pigs pigs

They're my very favorite thing. I really like pigs

that is how it will be.

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HULK David Siu

Hulk is green

He has blue hands and they turn. He's cold.

He is in CI TV program.

Hulk is wierd!

I don't like the HUlk.

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THE ROBOT

Frederik Stanton

He smalls bad

He acts bad

He is junk I'd say His arms are bad His legs are too He is junk too

He is not good.

My mother would say, 'Get him out! I

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PAPER AIRPLANES Sasha Tindall

Paper ai rplanes fly so high they climb

they dive through the sky they land, sometimes they get burnt when they fly

. through the sands then it flies

and dies.

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KARIM TORRES

see the letter in my mind

see the letter k in my mind

see the letter m in my mind

which is the letter . I see the most?

A FISH

Edwin Williamson

The fish has bulgy eyes and a 7 foot tail

with a big fin on the top and two on the sides.

Itls a very smelly fish.

That's all fish.

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ROBOT Thomas Yih

This robot does not smell and he isn't a bell.

He is bad

because he had an operation. He was sick

but- he isn't a brick but he's sick.

He is a noun

but he isn't in town. He isn't brown.

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CARLOTA ZIMMERMAN

Nice day isn't it?

Handwriting is a way to learn to write and do book reports

and social studies.

Nice night isn't it?

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Reggie catch it finally 3 outs

Reggie's up

Listen to the shouts

A home run what fun

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HUNTER Christine Bader

H unter'' s a fantastic school Although it could use a

good pool

l ts perfectly right I n every small mite It doesri'f need a

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Let's go ina space-ship you

and I. ~.

And for days just wander in ~.~\

the sky. '>. ~' )j

We'll go around Venus and ~ stop on Ma rs .

Climb up a pinnacle and count the stars.

We'" go to Mercury then near the sun register the centigrade

just for fun. ..

Then off to Pluto the farthest of all.

Back to Venus, Saturn rings and all.

Over Uranus, Jupiter, and quiet Neptune.

Then back to Earth brushing the moon.

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SONNI CLARKE

The subway system is the stupidest system I the screeching scrunching screaming

the bums

the addicts

the wineheads

the potheads

wherever you go

you can never escape.

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MICHAEL COOPER

[This poem is about the grass.

It's about the grass when the wind blows. I will tell you how it looks to me. You indeed

may have a different opinion]

As I gazed in the grass the wind began to blow and the grass would flow and look like fine velvet with tall trees around it when the wind would blow.

LEE LACY Christopher Criscione

Lee hit another homer

come on Lee you can hit her

l t+s a homer run Lee pour on

the power.

All right

Lee we won the game. All right!

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DRAGONS Wa Iter Daluz

Dragons, dragons, fire breathing dragons.

Dragons they fill you up with fright.

To kill a dragon you must fight a mighty fight.

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BRYAN DOUGHERTY

Clack clack clickety clack a thing came up and slapped my back

I turned around

with a lock

hung a sign on his neck that said, I Feed me, I

I opened the closet

got out some food

he was acting in a rather strange mood

He kept on yelling, 'food food food food.

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KATE EDELBAUM

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The night is about to fall

The snow is starting very lightly It makes the trees turn white

I n this very very dark night

You turn so very cold

While the snow comes down like gold coins .

. 1111 end this poem as I am told.

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MORRIS Amber Ephraim

There was a cat named Morris Who loved to smell the florist One day he took a whiff

And lost hi 5 sniff

That poor little cat named Morris.

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ICICLES

Beth L. Feinber'q

Cold, wet forming a point,

They make you shiver from joint to joint. .

Just thinking about them gives me a chill,

They can form on a mountain, cliff

or hill..

I like icicles though they're cold, Because I am always told,

Icicles are ... part of Mother Nature's Creations.

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THE MERRY-GO-ROUND Tyreta Foster

Round and round the Merry-go-round Swaying from side to side

I would love to go on the merry-goround and play and sway

Up and down, this merry-go-round The kids yelling and playing on the merry-go-round.

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SNOWFLAKES Ruth Golan

Swinging, slush Now we can play Oh! What fun. White and clear Fun in snow. Land is white

And clear and bright Kites are lost

End is coming Sometimes I wonder

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GLAMOUR

Kysha Ha rris-Martine

Glamour, it comes in all shapes and sizes

Glamour, it comes in black and white or different disguises.

Glamour I it doesn't matter how Yl:Ju cook

Glamour I it just matters how you look

Glamour I so as I said before Glamour I itls never going to

be a bore.

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BASEBALL Charles Hayes

Baseball bats, catcher's mitts, Reggie Jackson, Rick Cerone, Crowds cheering that's a fact, Soda bottles, beer cans, garbage and dirt,

frankfurters to go with mustard and sauce,

that's what usua Ily makes up a ballpark.

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MANHATTAN Miranda Langan

On 34 and Broadway Macy appears It's been the biggest store for

about 50 years

Then we move up to 59 and 3rd On top of Bloomingdales there flies a bird

A II around town there is a lot to see

So stop right now and come

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When I walked down to the pool

I saw a place in the shade where

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I passed a lake

Shimmering like an iced cake And the sun coming up was of

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Baby seagulls calling for their

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As the clouds passed by Birds started to fly

As I walked down to the pool

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PAUL LORIMER·

Earthquakes land shakes Buildings fall Babies bawl Animals snarl People crawl The dead are tall

The dead are small .

Earth quakes Land Shakes

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It sounds crunchy,

I t feels like sandpaper, 1 t smells like butter,

It tastes bitter,

It looks like cereal.

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LUNCH

Bread looks like a

square and Itls white and

I t has ends on it. Lunch smells good. I see carrots, Carrots taste like

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It feels like a sponge.

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!ranges smell like oranges rr anqes smell like orange

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Peaches sound crunchy Peaches sound quiet Peaches are delicious

Waterm elon smell s Ii ke cherries

Wate,rmelon feels hard Peaches feel smooth

Watermelon tastes delicious

Itls making me hungry.

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SUPPER

I t looks crispy It smells good It tastes good

I t sound s good

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It smells like corn and meat

I t looks brown Chicken 'looks rough

That's what it is - fried chicken

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SNOW Nnenna Lynch

Snow, snow, as it coaly drifts down

Snow, snow, those white little flakes

Snow, snow, oh it+s so cold Snow, snow, it always turns into slush

Yuck!

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THE RABBIT HILL Maya Rao

The rabbit was bouncing to her brother

who was behind her but her mother said

'Don't let him be look who's

behind me, I

She looked and looked, what did

she see,

A dog chasing ,them oh no.

'Don't look back but go go go. They ran ran ran and ran,

They ran until they met a man, They ran so they weren't caught, And until they were in a vacant

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THE TWO TOWERS Michael Benjamin Siff

Oh two towers, so tall Both taller than them a II

Not even flying can you reach The highest point where

they preach

One black One white Standing so bright in day While gleaming in the night in the merry month of May

ELINOR TATUM

Walls tall and great. The sea so calm wild horse kicking the sand

Oh I like the wild horse Riding through the wind

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SUBWAYS Keith Wilcox

Subways are dirty. Subways are dusty.

Subways are musty. 5 ubways are messy

but whatever they are people still ride them.

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PEGGY YIH

There was an old witch

named May ,

Who tried to make some clay. She tried and tried,

Til she finally died.

That was the old witch

from Lay .

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THE BOMBS Josh Benjamin

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A nuclear can wipe you out

Can blow up the world with the touch of a button

That another being presses. Why can't that bei ng press another button?

To fix the world instead of destroy?

LAKMINI BESBRODA

Cold misty streets,

A stray dog with a lame leg wanders off into the darkness.

Buildings gather together on and on forever.

Colorful, vulgar grafitti scrubbed on the walls,

Stuffed garbage cans in a line, What will the world come to?

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JENNIFER DAVID

A hamster Dixie,

A lone in her cage,

No one to play with, Getting older and older, Time for her is short, Soon she will die.

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THE ECONOMY Doni Gewirtzman

was walking down the street was looking pretty neat

The economy stopped me

He wasnltvery street

He told me to go to the street Put some money at his feet Don'f drop it in the gutter

Or I won'f eat

So I went walking down the street

I wasn'f feeling very neat.

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JIMMY HARPER

Nuclear power, bank robbers,

Pollution the flu.

What can the world be coming to. Snow. rain, sleet, flu

What can the world be coming to. A ------ ---------c hoo

THE JUNGLE Benjamin Hollister

drive through a jungle

With crime everywhere. Muggers, pushers and addicts I wish I could hack a trail Through the wilderness.

I'm lost.

I; I have not seen good in miles,

It Everywhere is crime.

t--_: I'm a pioneer

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HOMEWORK Leah Hughey

Homework is yicky Homework is yucky

If you don't get it

you are so lucky.

Homework is terrible Homework is tiring

If I were a principal

I would be firing

Homework is something

you don't want to do Homework is something

not to get close to.

Homework. homework. what a bore.

If [ had a choice. I'd shut the door.

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THE SPACE SHIP Nigel Jones

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Large, gleaming A space ship

A world in itself.

Moving under its own power. Supporting life

A spaceship,

For its inhabitants, the only Earth they have.

WINTER Suzanne Karakhan

All is warm and calm Snow erupts

Beauty on the branches It is calm once again

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SHOLA LYNCH

A dog sitting, staring at me with sad eyes

Looking, wanting comfort and a home

But fears rejection

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JANE MILLER

A cat, I loved him I played with him,

I loved him

held him, 1 fed him loved him

He depended on me for living

I depended on him for love

Now he has to depend on someone e[ se for love

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DAN I ELLE REED

I f you happen into a povertystricken neighborhood,

you usually ignore it. What

about the people who live there?

They must live in the buildings without telephones, electricity, sometimes without food. I t must truly be a hard life.

Through the alleyway, down the

st reet I hea r t here' s to be a rumble tonight. IWhat happened to the groceries? Someone muggec me. Where is that policeman when we need him? That official promised more coppers; I suppose

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SHIP WRECKED Adam Rosenthal

A way faraway

On the big blue sea

Under the great blue sky. Sits an I sland and I

I sit alone with the wind

whistling alone alone

A ship from away faraway Will come for me one day

I sit alone with the wind

whistling alone alone

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FEEL! NG

Robert Schonberg

It's not something very horrific It's not something everyone sees

It starts up in your ears and goes

right down to your knees

It feels like you'r-e greater than eve r It feels like you'r-e better than best It feels like you ran one hundred

miles and do not need a rest What is the stupendous feeling That seems to touch me so What is this wonderful feeling I'll be hanged if I know.

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JOANNA SPENCER

An abandoned cat

Alone she lives in the gutter with bums.

She runs down alleys to garbage cans, and eats whatever she can find.

The soft stroke of a child's hand will brighten her day.

She prays ·this will be her owner. I t never is.

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BANK ROBBER Erich Strom

The cops are all around me.

Their guns fired but hit a swarm of

bees.

Going in my getaway car on U. S. 3 One million dollars is what I carry. 11m almost there, my hiding place

is what I see

I erase all tracks carefully.

I crawl inside my hollow tree,

When the cops are gone, I can flee. All the way to the sea .

The loot is what I bury.

I wi 11 get away scot free.

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'he horse a nice kind loving animal. love them,

once rode a horse Mahogony. . loved him dearly. I love to ride ..

ee and pet the horse as much as I can. Someday,

will have a horse.

" always wait til that day.

THE DRAGON Kyle Williams

drew my faithful sword from my scabbard

lay it on the resting draqon's thrc 'One move and I shall choppeth off

thy head ," I said.

He struck .me hard I lay on a rock Sword in hand

I slew the dragon

No longer will he terrorize the land

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A RAINBOW Caryn Adelman

A rainbow is a dream

that climbs higher and higher

with brilliant colors show ing you a way I A way to a land most far away'

l t' s not near reality

It is all made up

It's just what you want it to be A land of imagining

A land of pretending

A land where t here' s no bad ,just good

A shining light will guide you

It is a magic place which only a rainbow can take you to.

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ONE CHRISTMAS REMEMBERE[ Courtney" Aison

The chi Id shivers in the cold.

Her house -- the curb of the street It is so cold no people leave their

homes

An old woman walks the street, White hair streaks behind her. She stops, looks at the chljd , And throws coins upon the street. With a delighted squeal, the child

counts them.

For the child this is a Christmas to remembered.

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MUSIC AFTER MUSIC Lisa Ferguson

Road after road,

Jellybean after jellybean. Long stems going on and on Line after line, bar after ba Finally to the double bar. The long roads are done!

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Disappearing Dying

The reason.

None, except madness My feelings;

Sadness at first,

Then anger!

Murder because of prejudice Absolutely monstrous.

MICAH GOODMAN

The player is up at bat

The smell of dust on the field The expression on his face

So grim, so intense

He sees the pitcher wind up Strike one!

Strike two!

The pitcher winds up for the third pitch:

.rmer un!

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AVRIL HAINES

T he flowers of the field

To the world they are sealed They sway within the moonlight

breeze

As they sing with lots of ease. When they fall asleep,

Nobody shall weep.

For the flowers of the field To the world they are sealed.

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THE BIRD Quinn Lawery

The bird is free now, Soaring through the air, Alone,

Far, far away,

Far away from man's world.

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OPTIMISM IN A RAINSTORM Gillian Lippert

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She walked down the street The wind whistling in her ears Shivering

The collar is pulled

Her hair streaked behind Bending

B uiJdings loomed larger

Trees bent towards the ground Rain

Big drops splashing down 'Oh no! I she thought. Gaining a pair of

'Fine Italian Leather'

Rain shoes

Was not high on her list of priorities.

AFTER THE RAIN Dara Mayers

Before the rain there are big, gray clouds

Threatening, warning you to stay home.

During the rain there are delicate little rai n drops,

Clear and tiny.

Splashing down upon your face, the sidewalk or trees.

After the rain, comes the best part of all.

A GIANT rainbow, reaching across the sky

Showing of its great beauty.

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The time was twelve The night was dark The dog was muzzled So not to bark

The stranqer came up to the

house

Just as everyone turned in Even the little gray mouse

He knocked twice

And once more made it thrice He had knocked on the door a total of three

Then broke in but stopped

for tea

He was not a pro By far not yet

He even spilled the tea And got all wet

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Sunshine, gleaming through the trees. Sometimes cold Sometimes warm. Beautiful. The sun shines for young

and old, and big and small. The sun shines for everybody.

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Old beetles

New beetles Yellow beetles Blue beetles

Beetles that feel slimy

Beetles that feel like glue Beetles that say I 'glitch' Beetles that say I "shroo' Beetles working hard all day Running around in the boiling

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BRIDGES Adam Smith

B ridges are big B ridges are tall

B ridges live on throughout

the nightfall Bridges are lit

Lit so bright Sometimes in daytime Mostly at night Bridges on a stream

inside a mall

B ridges and Bridges that never w ill fall

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THE FANTASY PLACE Geeta Tate

A place where all creatures are friendly,

Where the flowers grow free. Where wander throuqh the billowy plains

Where unicorns and winged horses

Pioneer the trackless forests and

Romp through thei r domain. W here babies open up thei r eyes to a colorful land.

Where everything is growing constantly.

Thi s is The Fantasy Place.

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FRIEND

Mollena Lee Williams

was silver. A silver stirring of wingS,

Issing of mane and tail, plunging

of spearlike horn.

yes glowing. embers of gold, nostrils flaring, Silver hooves stamping, the earth shivers as the hoof crashes down on the earth. I feel the fiery flame of its breath, as brimstone burns. he smooth flanks and deep chest

muscles give added power. The noble visage left a deep impression. lur meeting was brief, but he was,

my friend.

ERIC WOLFF

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Marth I 1981

TIlls book belongs to

C 1981, Ten Penny Players 799 Greenwich Street

New York MY 10014

ISBN 0-934830-23-1

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