"Birthday Haikus," haiku

 Birthday Haikus

    By Sofi Creatore-Yancer

Presents and a cake.

It is at the end of June.

Just no balloons, please.

They are plastic and

Bad for the environment.

Other décor’s fine.

The best cake flavor.

It’s a really big debate.

Chocolate? Vanilla?

My mom is the Queen

Of birthday surprises. She

Always makes it fun.

The best presents are

Things that are not in boxes.

They’re just fun moments.

Experiences

Are as good, sometimes better.

Things can be clutter.

There can be no school

On my birthday. Classes are

Against the law that day.

They don’t have to be

Super fancy to be good.

Birthdays are the best.

"Inspired by Fahrenheit 451," lyric poem

 Inspired by Fahrenheit 451

    By Anonymous 9th grader

Fahrenheit 451, we burn the pages

Authors and readers spat at and berated

Pleather covers covered in soot

Charred are the characters within the book

Who’s to say they aren’t burning too?

In a beautiful flame of red, orange, and blue

Information is crucial

Having it is criminal

I wish to be a criminal

Just like you

Education is tyranny

Corrupt and unnecessary

Yet somehow, somewhat eerily

I still want to learn

I smell of ashes

I’ve burned those pages

The ones I should’ve read

But now you’ve taught me how to think

You’ve taught me independence

Curiosity and reverence

But illegal was that sentence

That overwhelmed my senses

"My Eyes," lyric poem

My Eyes

    By Khloe Njeri Ayala, 7th grade

 

My eyes are brown

very very dark brown,

I used to hate my eyes

and wished they were blue

but now I realize,

I realize that my eyes are like dirt

and dirt is the source of life and food 

in every single continent,

but also like coffee filled with lots of caramel,

and that's so sweet,

and the warmth inside of them

matches the heart inside of me,

and now I love my eyes 

because they look like a 

a nice warm cup of tea

"This is not the painting we're looking for," acrylic paint

This is not the painting we're looking for

by Brayden Barnes, 9th grade