Saoirse Landauer

Haiku poems

A Sunset

A hot, bright sun hangs

Over a smooth endless sea

The sun sets, sinking

The Tree

It’s branches stretching

A race, up to the warm light

The tree, a strong tower

LIST POEM!

Thanksgiving dinner

All around the table my family eats their dinner

A light brown roast turkey

Like a centerpiece sitting in the middle of the table

Dark red cranberry sauce

Long thin green asparagus

Warm steaming potatoes

And more

Dessert comes

Soft Pumpkin pie

Crisscrossed Cherry pie

Creamy white ice cream

Like little clouds sitting on the slices of the pie

Thanksgiving dessert

My story poem

The diving board

The diving board

Squelch, squelch

Water splashes around under my bare feet

I walk to the edge of a long blue diving board

People wait behind me

This is my first time

I don’t think I can do it, as I look down into the long drop ahead of me

I steady my shaking hands and jump

I am

falling and

falling and

falling

I am a stone plummeting toward the water below

Then

Suddenly

I splash into an icy sea

And I know I have reached the bottom

The Poem - The Picture

The light brown wooden framed picture hangs up against a milky white wall

Two different types of paper, one white and one a light olive green with a tint of gold

These papers surround a picture of a dark brown tree

The trees branches and leaves spread out over dancing shadows of people down below

One half of the background is a light blue

The other half is a light green

A white outlined circle with a sun rising over a red and white valley

like it's rising over the American flag

It lies at the base of the tree

Under the tree is soil where the trees roots spread out into complicated patterns

The picture lies above an old bench

Summer by the Sea

Summer by the sea

Squack, squack, scuack seagulls and other unfamiliar birds flying overhead

Like white kites swerving in between each other

Occasionally diving into the water to grab a tasty snack

Summer by the sea

White and yellow shells laid along the water soaked sand

Drifting in and out with the coming and going waves

Like a colourful path leading to nowhere

Summer by the sea

The hot sun beating down on me from above

Sweaty and hot, no shade anywhere

Summer by the sea

Clear blue sky with no clouds

Endless

Summer by the sea

The Sunset

Layer 1 sitting on the blanket

I sit there

My sister snacking on potato chips beside me

Not even paying attention to the beautiful scene before us

She’s the only one

My aunt sits next to me

With my brother in front of us, lying back on a beautiful bag

And my parents on the other side

All of us, sitting on a striped blue, red, green and black blanket

Staring as if we are watching a movie

Watching red,orange, purple, blue so many colors making up

A beautiful sunset

Layer 2. Plants. Swaying, animals

Swaying palm tree shhhhhhhhh, shhhhhhhhhh

Click, click, click

Rustle rustle

Cricket, cricket

Flap, flap

Layer 3

Roar, crash

Waves crash onto helpless sand

Creating a kind of rhythm

Sea gulls, shed, shed

Swish swish

My Cat

Small and furry

White, brown and black

sneaking about the house

Like an unseen ghost

Until popping out of nowhere

Whining for food every hour of the day

Then when finally getting it, whining for hours after

Sometimes sleepy, sometimes energetic

My cat

The Dinner

Soft, warm p o t a t o e s,

Long chewy asparagusa s p a r i g u s

The room is warm and people are laughing

I sit in silence, daydreamin

A big pot of hot steaming m a c a n d c h e e s e

My brother and sister tear at the Mac and cheese each grabbing at the big serving spoon like a couple of wild animals

sits on a brown cork pad on the wooden table

The Mac and cheese is burning hot when my tongue touches it

And I quickly pull away

List Poem

My room

My room

Books on the shelf stacked next to each other neatly

Five or six pictures

A white and pale brown desk sits by the wall

And a green chair

A brown billboard against the wall

Two windows with blue wavy curtains like cloth waves

Squares stitched together to form my carpet

Two pillows lie on my bed

One BIG

And

One small

This poem is inspired by Valerie Worth

Water

All shapes and sizes

Solid, liquid or gas

Waving up and down, up and down

Floating in the air

Hard and cold

Different colors

A silky smooth substance

Like nothing but still something

Water

Climate change( Inspired by Kwame Alexander's poem)

This is for the melting Icebergs and homeless polar bears

This is for the animals that have to adapt to a new hotter climate

This is for the flooding cities and climate refugees

This is for the protesters who march through the streets calling for justice