lola's poetry

In case you didn’t know… (inspired by This is just to say)

In case you didn’t know…

I found a blueberry pie that you were

Hiding in your sock drawer

I am so very sorry that I found it

But you can’t blame me

I can smell it from my room

Blueberry pie, and socks

Water

Water is

In so many

Different places

Even if you just

Look around

You will see

Water

You will see it in

The rain

The ocean

The lake

The stream

The river

The pond

Water is like a

Butterfly

Peacefully flying

Through the

pale blue sky

Water is

everywhere

And no matter what

Kind it is or

Where you live

You will always feel

Like you are

Swimming

In Paradise

-Lola Seiter

Poem (inspired by pelican)

Poems are a

Swirl

Of

Words

D

E

P interesting words

A poem can never be

W

R

O

N

G

But all you can do to make your poetry

Better is

D

I

V

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D

O

W

N

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P

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Bird

Sitting on

A half broken branch,

A bluebird

Sings its

Beautiful song.

Like a classic tune

Being strung

From a

Guitar

At the

Opening night

Of a performance.

The bright blue

Of its coat

Shines

Brighter in the

Warm, yellow, light

More than

Ever before

Haikus

Pictures

Snap, snap, click, snap, click

That’s the sound of a picture

That’s taken of you

Winter

White snow falling down

Running fast to get back home

Air as cold as ice

Butterflies

Resting on a branch

One by one each lifts its wings

And flies through the air

Beach

Crabs dig in the sand scratch scratch, scratch scratch

Sandy waves, crashing on my feet crash, crash

The orange and pink sky, melting down into the green, salty ocean drip drip drip

Never want to leave this warm, breezy paradise shhh shhh

Friendsgiving

Carefully

I write the names

Of the people who are

Coming on each

Little brown card

Telling them

Where to sit during the meal

1 card

2 cards

3 cards

When I’m finished

I have a total of 32 cards

Placing one card on

Each seat

I am hoping I will get

A seat next to

My friend

Harper

Once I am finished

I take a seat on our

Soft gray couch

And wait

5 minutes

10 minutes

15 minutes

It feels like

Hours

That I’ve spent

Sitting in a

Hot savannah

With only enough

Water to last me a

few days

Suddenly

I hear a

Ding dong

The doorbell rings

I think it is

In my mind

Ding dong

It rings again

And I snap

Out of my daydream

And I get up

Off the couch

and answer it

When I open the door

My friend Harper and her

Family are

Standing there all

Smile

Smiling

Because they are happy they

Get to

Be here with us

And on the outside

I feel so

Happy and excited

But on the inside

I feel the tiniest bit

Sad because

My heart knows that

They will not be here to stay forever

Only for this

Wonderful yet

So short day

But even though I

I am feeling this way

The happy and excited feeling

Takes over and I

Grin and say

“Welcome to our friendsgiving!”

Lola Seiter

List Poem

My Backpack (Or what it use to be)

● 3 pencil stubs - 2 broken in half

● A pack of old gum that i never did eat

● A towel and a change of clothes - in case it’s sprinkler day

9 scraps of paper - with writing I can’t read

● A very old library book - that I guess Ii should return

● So if you want to come and see my backpack,

● The line starts back there

Lime (mine is cut in fourths)

Lime

Yellow, green, and sour,

The lime sits there,

Lonely,

And still.

It’s shape is like a piece of

Sliced watermelon.

With the peel,

Then the middle,

And then the core.

It’s smooth all around the

Outside,

With little

Holes in it,

Stopping in the middle,

Not wanting to go down

Any farther.

And if you would look back to that

Pearl white napkin and

That beige, hard table,

Who would you find

But the little sour lime,

Still waiting,

Wondering,

About the real world.

Wishing

And hoping

That maybe one day,

He too

Would get to

See the place where anything

Is possible.

-Lola Seiter

The Ocean

Life is peaceful when I go to the ocean

No one screams or cries

Life is peaceful when I go to the ocean

Some days I just want to fly

Fly over the salty, sea - green ocean

Because life is peaceful when I go to the ocean

Life is peaceful then

Innocent

From the perspective of a black child,

At least what I imagine it to be.

Chocolate

Brownies

Black.

That’s all they ever see

I’m getting on a bus

Now make room for me

I’m looking in a store

See a black guy

Getting grabbed by

A brand new cop

His first day on the job

The man did nothing wrong

And this has gone on too long

I wish -i could stand up I

And say our cops are corrupt

But i can’t because i know

That if i try and go

Say something to that cop

I might be the one that’s

stopped

detained

Or arrested

Even though

I’m

Innocent.