A little September poetry book

A little September poetry book

With complete poems and a host of excerpts

Inspired by Jacqueline Woodson's verse memoir

Here are a sample of our student memoir poems:

1st Hour winner: “2018 Jr. Market Sale”

Aimee Shults with her pig

That weighs 283 pounds.

People start bidding

Cell phones ringing

All I can hear around me

As tears roll down my face

Thinking why this?

The numbers going,

Up and up

Those words

Those heartbreaking words

SOLD to number 38.

Shaking their hands

Crying and thinking

Why this?

I’ll never see her again

This is the last day

Of her life.

When I left the barn

It was sad and hard

But I knew it was the right thing to do.

-Aimee Shults

2nd Hour Winner: “Spring Days”

I went out for a walk one day.

The sky was clear and blue.

I saw a blue jay in a tree,

But then away it flew.

She must be flying wild and free,

Something I wish I could do.

I watched her soar into the sky,

And then, her friends joined too.

I continued down the narrow path,

And saw a baby fox.

She trotted by and disappeared

Behind a group of rocks.

She me up with her family,

They all had on white socks.

I headed toward the river,

The water was so clear

The water flows so freely

All throughout the year.

I dipped my toes into the water

And fell down on my rear!

I laughed and screamed and jumped back out,

As the cold water caught me by surprise.

Oh, these spring days are always fun,

This feeling never dies.

-Aaliyah Castillo

3rd hour Winner

Bubbles rise from the river depth

Fore lock floats at the river’s surface

The kelpies eyes resurface

Its eyes gold and unblinking

Teeth thick and exposing

Mouth closing

Nostrils flaring.

-Byrnley Barton

As the boat started to zoom across the water,

I could feel myself rock like a teeter-totter.

After many times I fell and failed,

I stopped, took a breath, and then exhaled.

-Rhiwan

We used to have a dog named Dexter.  

His barks were like lullabies during a storm,

Dexter and Patch had little adventures

Every morning. It was great!

-Adison

No honeysuckle smell

Just wanting to yell,

I usually go outside

Or watch tv inside…

-Will

The day was a hot, sweaty one,

As the breeze cooled the stands,

The handler sent the dog out to the field,

Then there goes the dog going like 50 mph!

-Mason

The dogs start barking and my mom shushes them…

I went off trail and started twisting around trees

-Charlie

Dogs running fast through the tunnel

Trainers shouting out what to do

Fast through the tunnel twist

Rattle and shake, then they po through.

-Cooper

The sun came up over the mountains.

And is snowing, fogging.  The snow

Is to my window.  The fog si so thick.

-Skylar

Darkness

It’s all she sees

Darkness,

It’s all she understands

Darkness

Cold

It’s all she feels

Cold

It’s all she comprehends

Cold

-Elissa

I climb

Into the empty, gaping seat

Pull the safety restraint

Down snug on my chest

Feel

The G-Force flattening my

Body as the coaster shoots me…

-Montey

…I smell, I see, I hear, I feel

The many years of memories in the cards.

The old dusty pictures full of memories.

-Jackson

The sun shining.

Stepping on the boats

Driving by a cliff

To see a mountain goat…

-Finley

We won our first football game on Saturday, Hooray!

The first play of the game our team scored

A touchdown on the first play of the game,

Touchdown, yeah!

-Tyler

It was the first day

I ever jumped my bike

I started way back

Then I went for it

Bang, crash, smack

I crashed.

-Dawson

“Look, it’s climbing,” I say as we headed outside

I stand by the glass with plenty of pride

That I saw my favorite animal.

It was a Panda.

-Sam

It’s like the tree is waving to me.

The wind is soft, calm.

The sun is almost blinding…

Elk casually eating in a field….

Sound of a river running.

Nice and calm.

-Annalyse

Mexico

The part I went to of Mexico was in the middle and that was Aguascalientes.

I got to meet my grandma and aunts…A lot of fun stuff…going to a wedding, getting to watch Jumanji at the theater, and watch my sister and cousin

Fight over boy’s blue underwear. My adventure…

-Roxanna

The lightning woke me up in a flash.

The thunder scared me away

With a roll as a clash.

-Rebecca

Part II of Dexter the Dog

Mom and Ainsley crying

And dad on the four-wheeler digging

A grave…

We were the luckiest people on Earth

-Adison

Woodson was looking out the window,

As the rain drizzled down the window.

Then the sidewalk grew grayer and wetter,

As she also grew border and border.

-Bow

Disallowed:

Bacon is red

Bacon is rough.

One piece of bacon

Is never enough.

-Plagiarism

Barone M.S.  Student Language Arts Poems

Mr. Hagstrom, 6th Grade, Fall 2018