A tree

Strong roots hold a tree

Branches hold fall color leaves

Now fall has arrived

Waking up

Sun in your tired eyes

The sound of a barking dog

Time to wake up

Jumping in water

Take 3 steps back

Get ready to feel the water

Get in a running position

Then run

Get in to a ball or

Pencil shaped position

Pow! you’re in the water

Like a rock

My Dog

• Dark brown fur, soft like a pillow

• Pads on her feet, rough like sandpaper

• Green collar with ladybugs

• Paws crossed, head over her paws

• Belly going up and down while she sleeps

• Eyes bloodshot red from playing all day

• Tail wags when she’s happy

• Head down when she’s sad

Story Poem

Mentos

Many many years ago

On a hot summer day

I found some coca-cola and mentos

I went outside to put the coca-cola down

Opened the top then opened the mentos

My mom did a countdown 3, 2, 1

Pshhhhhh pooooooooop!

The pop made me flinch

The soda was going into the street

Like a valcano

The hummingbirds

There's a black pole with two hooks on it

there are two red feeders

The hummingbirds eat the nectar

From the small holes in the feeders

The nectar is homemade

It’s enough to feed them all

With iridescent green and a red band around its neck

Wigs fly so fast

too hard to see

Those are our family hummingbirds

That's one sport I play

In the winter in Vermont I take a lift to the top of a mountain

I buckle my feet into a board that looks like it's meant for the waves

When I'm going down the mountain I see a jump

I decide to go over the jump

I pick up some speed to make the jump more fun

That's one sport I play

I pick my position on the field

I hear the word hike

I run for a good position

Look to make sure no one is around me

Then call for a pass

The quarterback sees me and lands a perfect throw

I catch the ball then run

That's one sport I play

It starts with the kick-off

I get the ball

I dash up the field

Defenders surround me

I fake to the right go left

There’s an open shot

I take it

GGGGOOOOOAAAAALLLLLLL

That's one sport I play

Ice Cream

A bright hot sunny day

A perfect time a nice cold

Ice cream cone

Picturing it in my mind

The cold ice cream dripping

down the cone

With a couple of sprinkles

Like small stones

coming down with it

A nice yummy bit out of it

Yummmm

Camel

The lone camel

in the midst of its

Herd in the middle of Arabia

Is chewing on a delectable piece of grass

aggressively

He shows his crooked teeth

as he chews

and his lips are making a

kissing face

Animal, cruelty

I never understood why people treat animals like property and not like family

Animals have feelings

people think animals aren't intelligent enough to know what is happening to them

but some animals can be more intelligent than some humans

Animals don’t kill living things for fun

While we will make dogs fight for entertainment and money

People rip babies from their families because they don't care how they feel

But they do feel emotion

Some animals will even cry

Animals don’t deserve to be treated cruelly

Animals should have more rights then they are given