by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Middle School Poetry
Water is fun to swim in. Anyone would want to see water on a sunset. Very many people use water. Every amount of water in Southeast Alaska is cool. Some days the waves of Southeast Alaska get very big. — Ian Bagley is 11 years old and is a sixth grader at Blatchley...
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Middle School Poetry
Holy water HAIKUWater religionI love holy water it’s goodIt can clean a fridge Funny monkey water balladWater water water is badIt is solid and like oilIt is really really sadIt tastes like it is spoiled Water is a gasIt tastes like a donkeyLater that night I...
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Middle School Poetry
Fear of Water (Limerick) Wet water is everywhere, Oh my goodness! It’s in my hair, I know I’m not a witch, but still it tries, To drown me, melt me, and water my eyes, How the sight of water triggers my fears, And causes me to shed the tears, The long lost memory...
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Elementary Poetry
Fish are yummy. I like to catch fish in the ocean. Salmon are hard to catch. Hatcheries help the fish grow. I need water to survive. Neighbors bring us fish from the ocean. Grateful for water and fish in Sitka, Alaska. — Elliot Bagley is 8 years old and in second...
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Elementary Poetry
Rivers are beautiful, quiet, living, has lives cold, Bears go to the river to catch fish, Creates life, peace, nature Life is pretty. — Juean-David Reynoso is a fourth grader at Harborview Elementary School
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Middle School Poetry
I walk down the golden sand observing the blue waves crashing The sublime sounds of the blueness and all its deity The adulation of the sea lifts me and has me gasping I keep my composure and absorb all of the divinity As I am engulfed by the depths of the cerulean...
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Elementary Poetry
In the ocean a shark in motion chase a fish it’s mercy less. Near by under the night sky a seagull soars where a seal lion roars Anemone sway and dolphin play all under the ocean. — Sadie Curtis is a fifth grader at Juneau Community Charter...
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Elementary Poetry
— Saana Amundson is a fourth grader at Harborview Elementary School
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Elementary Poetry
The waves struck the small opening to the pool as the sun was sinking down. White swans elegantly swam to the edge of the pool, dipping their heads in with grace, smoothly lifting their heads to surface and float silently across the water as it rippled in response....
by Emily | Mar 12, 2021 | Middle School Poetry
The waves are crashing on the shimmering rocks The seagulls are squawking, beginning to flock Where the silvery fish splash water as they jump I sit with my back to an old, twisted tree stump Watching, just watching, feeling no need to talk The brilliant sun reflects...