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What does music look like?
Soft dark purple sounds like a gentle low note on a large gong
-Gwen Pidgeon
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Jumps and sways and sharp high kicks
Turns and rolls and tiny ticks
Sharp lines and angles
Shimmies and tangles
Large groups in motion
Make a vibrant potion
A single shape holding
Or so slowly molding
The space changes shape
With grace fills the gape
It vibrates through space
At varying pace
-Mandy and Gus Pidgeon
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Rings spiral through the sky
Dancing as if on an
Invisible magic carpet
Bursts of color here and there
Flashing red and blue and
A different color for
Every note
Scales like a staircase
Up and up or down and down
Each step it’s unique color
Each color it’s unique shape
Geometry hidden in the sight
Of music
If no one else can see it
That’s okay
I’ll keep this show of lights
All to myself
Watching it throb to the beat
Watching it dance to the symphony
Of music
-Meaghan MacGregor
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Colors
Swaying
And swishing
Bright
Dull
Yellow daisy
Grey rain
Upbeat tunes
Mournful notes
Shapes
Twisting
And turning
Tall
Small
Loud and frightening
Quiet and meek
Booming voices
Whispering lyrics
Movement
Giggling
And gliding
Abrupt
Gradual
Short clips
Lengthy tone
Music
Doesn’t
Need
a picture
It already
pleases
Everyone
whoever saw
Or heard it.
-Iza Wilson
What does the color brown sound like?
Brown Brown Whoo whoo
Brown Brown Whoo whoo
Nest in the trees
And owls sleeping at noon
Brown Brown Whoo whoo
Brown Brown Whoo whoo
-Gus Pidgeon
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What does the color blue sound like?
Blue is the lakes that
Color the states
I can’t recall it being a mistake
So take it slow, there’s no place to go
It can’t be helped there’s a place to go
Blue is the states covered in lakes
So take me there with you
I can’t recall it being a mistake
Blue is the lakes that cover the places
I can’t recall it being a mistake
And that’s what I sing
That’s what I sing
That’s what I sing
That’s what blue sings
-Owen Hill
What do stars smell like?
I feel like a giant.
My large nostrils can smell the scents of each unique star.
A star hovers above my cupped hands,
Like a bead of rainwater about to fall on my palm.
Shooting stars smell like Coca-Cola,
While white stars smell like fresh bread from right out of the oven.
Red stars smell like BBQ on a summer night,
Blue ones smell like blueberry cotton candy,
And our own sun smells like a loaf of pumpkin bread.
The thing I want to know now is,
What do planets smell like?
-Will McGough
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I went on a stroll in the forest
Wondering to myself
What do the stars,
Smell like, smell like,
If they even smell.
I ask the owl,
The owl, the owl
to go up and take a sniff.
The owl comes back and says to me
To me, to me
He says,
The stars smell so nice
They smell much like rice,
Like rice, like rice they smell
All the other birds disagree
For they also took a smell,
A mockingbird says it smells like mangos
Like mangos, like mangos they smell
The eagle he says
He says, he says
The stars they smell like cheeseburgers
Like cheeseburgers, like cheeseburgers they smell,
Soon there became a fight and every bird took off in flight
To look for stars
For stars to smell
And now, again, I’m by myself.
-Chelsea Li
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What is the opposite of skydiving?
The opposite of skydiving isn’t as fun as skydiving
Somehow I find myself at the bottom of the ocean
I try to swim to the top
but the air bubbles escaping from my lungs
float up faster than I can swim
my feet feel like a ton of bricks
dragging me down to the seafloor
and don’t get me wrong,
it’s beautiful down there
but I can’t breathe underwater
and you’re not down here with me
-Kelly Kernan