Here ya go!!! Enjoy, don’t judge, and let the poems sing.
The Day the Dinosaurs Didn’t Sing!
Words: Accordion, Button, Mouse
The day the Dinos didn’t sing
Was quite a miserable day.
Their accordion player tripped and fell
Yes, it was a miserable day
He tripped on a button
A quite shiny button
Covered in glitter and string
The dinosaurs were too miserable
They didn’t try to sing.
Then the T rex had an idea
“We’ll google what to do!”
They set a trap and caught a mouse
And had a computer delivered
They googled what to do if,
Your accordion player trips on a button,
That’s covered in glitter and string
But even google didn’t know
And that’s why the dinosaurs didn’t sing.
-Chelsea Li
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The Primrose of Blankets
Words: Flashlight, Whiteboard, Hairbrush
There once was a blanket
The blanket was beautiful
The primrose of blankets
For it was a wonder
Sometimes it even,
Seemed to have glowed
Like a flashlight’s pale, yellow light
It gave warmth
And was soft,
Like a hairbrush on hair
This primrose of blankets
Was amazing for long,
But, even the beautiful, most spectacular
Must come to an end
So, this primrose of blankets,
Must wear away
Like marker on whiteboard
Must fade away
Though it is nice,
And once had a place
The primrose of blankets,
Has had its days.
-Chelsea Li
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Off The Top Of My Head
Words: Evergreen, Mango, Helicopter
Off the top of my head
That’s where words come from
When I can’t think of what to say
When my brain is whirling
Like a helicopter
That just won’t stay
Off the top of my head
That’s where I decide
What I’m about to do
Like when I chose to eat
A rotting mango
Oh, if only I knew
That the top of my head
Can be quite impulsive
When my thoughts are stuck in muck
I wish they would stay put
Like an evergreen
Waving hopelessly without luck
And I know that someday
My impulsiveness
Well, it’s gonna pay
Off the top of my head
That’s where this comes from
Cause I can’t think of what to say
-Meaghan MacGregor
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Cookie Dance
Words: Rose, Wiggles, Scarf
The lights in the theater are dim
I sit glued to my seat, in a trance
As the announcer, a blueberry scone
Says, “And now, for the cookie dance!”
Six cookies parade from the curtains
Each in a scarf, looking sharp
Then the music starts to play
Drums, trumpet and even a harp
The cookies start to wiggle
Then soon, they’re full on dancing
Leaping, spinning, kicking
Bouncing, shaking and prancing
All too soon, the music’s over
I throw a rose on the stage, I clap
“What are you doing?”
Someone says, I look up with a snap
The stage is gone, the lights are on
The cookies are in their jar
I turn away, angry because once again
I let my imagination get too far
-Meaghan MacGregor
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The Crunch Of My Breakfast
Words: Paintbrush, Bicycle Helmet, Ballet Slipper
I opened up the cupboard to find…
Well, I must be blind
It was completely vacant.
“Mom, there’s no cereal!” She shouted back, ” Be patient! ”
I was famished
If the cereal vanished
Then I would go and buy cereal myself
I grabbed my bicycle helmet from beside the bookshelf
And rushed outside with my bike
This would be a long hike
The store was across the neighborhood
I started on Elmwood
Then crossed onto Alabama Avenue
Watching the urban view
I crossed the road
And slowed
To a stop in front of the store
After locking up my bike I opened the door
It was a maze
I walked through the isles in a daze
There were things from paintbrushes
To rubber duckies, there were people coming by in rushes
They swarmed over the store, pushing small carts
I passed by a lone valley slipper and map charts
Finally, finally I saw it
I was glad I didn’t quit
For there, in front of me, was the cereal
-Iza Wilson
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Birds Language
Words: Seashell, Skateboard, Thunderstorm
The air is thin, the mercury plummets
And the hairs on my head stand on end.
A thunderstorm is rolling in.
Come inside, they say, but I don’t go just yet.
I grab a seashell from the beach,
The forgotten garment of a creature long gone,
And press it to my ear to hear a rumbling of ocean waves,
Of shipwrecks and sailors lost at sea,
Of sirens, singing sweetly to pass the time, unaware of the grief they bring.
These are the same tales that the birds call to each other from the treetops-
The screeching gulls spinning stories with eloquence and fervor.
A skateboard rolls past, scraping on the concrete,
Its rider no one but the wind.
“Percussion!” The birds scream gleefully.
It makes their stories more exciting, they think.
I run inside, shell clutched to my chest
Over my heart.
It will make for good listening as the sky opens outside
Someday, I will learn to understand the birds
And hear the stories uninterrupted by passing fancies
Of the creatures who seashells once belonged to.
-Livia Cohen
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I Ate A Carrot. I Did Not Like It.
Words: Bubble, Elephant, Snore
I ate a purple carrot. It tasted very bad.
I thought it was the worst thing, that I had ever had.
I tried it as a pencil, it didn’t even work,
I gave it to an elephant, who said, ’No!’ with a smirk.
I sat down to think, but then began to snore,
I dreamed that I was fishing, sitting by the shore.
Then the lake began to gurgle, and became a bubble bath,
And then I dreamed of numbers, like I was doing math.
Counting all the carrots in my mouth and hand,
My mouth went CHOMP, like a snapping rubber band.
Then I woke up, my eyes fluttered open,
I saw the carrot in my hand, and then I started hopin’,
That maybe if I nibble a little every day,
After 7 tries, carrots might just be okay?
-Will McGough
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The Mechanic And The Teacup
Words: Mallard, Salmonberry Blossom, Sunflower
Once there was a salmonberry blossom
A mallard swam by
“Oh look a sunflower”, it said
A Mechanic walked by with a teacup
-Gwen Pigeon
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The Surfer’s Surfboard
Words: Puppy, Crabapple, Newt
A puppy ate a crabapple and went crazy and
crushed a newt on accident
the Newt slapped the dog and
ran away to hide under a rock
Then the dog ran to find it
but then it found a rock that was walking away instead
So the dog ran at the rock
bang
and fainted and got dizzy
at about an hour from then it woke up
got up and was walking away
looking to see if the rock was following it
and it banged into its owners house
and there was a hole in the house
and all the animals were having a party
and ran out and seemed to make the hole bigger
the dog was still running
it messed up the furniture
and it couldn’t stop running
and what stopped it was a turtle
and it landed on top of the tallest apartment building
and it managed to run off onto another building
then onto a car and the car went home
to fix the holes in the house
and the dog was safe at home again
– Gus Pigeon
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When I Was Smaller
Words: Teacup, Fractals, Salmon
Belly to swing I walk in circles
tighter and higher I go
squeezing my belly until
I can’t go any further
release
I spin so fast
watching fractals of
the world blur past
Out of control
release
Dizzy I stumble to the blanket
where my teacup sits
Pink salmon swim around its edge
Do they like to spin?
Next time they’ll come along
-Mandy Pigeon
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Once Upon A Time There Was The End
Words: Ice cream sundae, Paleontologist, Astronaut
Long ago in a town of snow
I was walking down to the old ice cream sundae show
When a paleontologist screamed at me
He yelled, “The astronaut should let me be!”
He said the astronaut took all his meat
And I said “Oh fiddlesticks!” and he laughed at me
So I kept walking past the Sweet Ice Cream Shoppe
Where you get fudge and whipped cream and best of all a cherry tree
And after that the Paleontologist shows us
What it will be like to see a real dinosaur
Then the astronaut would demonstrate what you will experience in space
The astronaut would rise off the floor and out the door, singing all the way
Then again the Paleontologist will dig up dinosaur bones,
Skinny ones and even ice cream cones
And then, Oh no, the show has ended
With red and white flames that say,
The End.
-Owen Hill