MPitS - Manchester Union Elementary School

MPitS

Manchester Union Elementary School
2003/2004

A rabbit is like a girl hopping for joy.

A rabbit is like a beaver chopping on wood.

A rabbit is like a pond standing very still.

A rabbit is like a flower staying in the same place.

A rabbit is like snow being so soft and white.

A rabbit is like the eye of the earth.

Jennifer Stone
4th grade, Manchester School
Cindy Wesley, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

War

Fighting
hurting

Why not peace?
Why not cease
all this war
that can't take no more.

Fighting
hurting

Why papers
Why green cards
Why make it so hard

Fighting
hurting

Why should we fight
in the night
or in the bright
Fighting
hurting
Why can't we settle
and not through metal
fighting
hurting

our brains are rotting
with all this fighting

Why war
Why not adore
this world we live in.

Norma Orozco
6th grade, Manchester School
Cindi Schmitz, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

What I Feel Down Deep Inside Me

I feel like going outside in the middle of a big green
field and yelling, "I love You" so many times
I feel like screaming until my throat hurts so much it could swell.

I feel like running an endless road
Sometimes I feel so depressed I feel like running and running
an endless road to heaven.

Sometimes I can't find words to describe what I feel
Sometimes it hurts so much I feel like crying until I fill an empty ocean.

Sometimes, I feel so terribly sad I feel like going into
a dark room and cry myself to sleep.

I feel like this because sometimes it feels like no one
respects what I feel inside deep down in me.

Leticia Fuentes
8th grade, Manchester School
Cindi Schmitz, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

Look into my watery eyes
Look what you've done to me
you destroyed me
you should not
do anything because I'll get upset
look what I have in my forehead.
I feel miserable
Why did you do it, Why, Why
if you didn't do it, then who did
tell me Please if you're my friend
I'll hide from you and never see you again
Look at my mouth who did that when

why where if I don't know you
Leave me alone, don't do it again.
Why did you show everybody my secret place?
Leave me alone because I don't want to see you
or know anything about you. Look you made me cry
Now every day I cry I want to stop
but somebody did a spell on me. Was it you?
Can I be your friend?
I don't think so.

Joana Vargas
4th grade, Manchester School
Cindy Wesley, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

Yo me llamo Nightmare Shadow
Mira mi boca, cada vez que la lumbre
sale de mi boca, te rompe
tu corazon en pedazos.
Yo rompo tus sueños buenos
y los hago malos.

My name is Nightmare Shadow
Look at my mouth, each time
the fire jumps from my mouth
it breaks your heart into pieces.
I break your good dreams
and I make them bad.

Andres Fuentes
2nd grade, Manchester School
Bill Benedict, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

The Crystal City

Fly, fly over the blue ocean
Fly through the hidden valley, cross the river
Fly to the crystal city. Escape the world
of broken dreams. run. leave the world of bloodshed.
Escape the beastly world full of war.
Escape to the crystal city
where dreams will come true, and wounds, mended.
Leave, leave the world hat has no future.
Come to the crystal city where there are no enemies.
Flee to the crystal city where life is in full bloom.
Escape to the crystal city where there is no fear.
Come, come now.

Hogan E. Ruttledge
7th grade, Manchester School
Cindi Schmitz, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

The Storm

"The Storm has spindly arms
that reach out and tie you in the veins
of its leaves and choke the freedom from you."

"The Storm smahes the corageousness
of the finger and heart. It whacks you upside down
with the wood in the trunk."

"The Storm slips and falls.
The Storm is fought by Earth Water
Wind and Fire."

"But the Storm is only flying
away. Until it slams into the hard sand.
And falls into the River. And dies."

Crystal L. Kramer
6th grade, Manchester School
Cindy Schmitz, classroom teacher
Scott Meltsner, poet-teacher

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