Poetry Cafe

We recently had a poetry contest with the entire 6th grade involved. 23 of the poems were chosen as winners from all of the entries combined. These winning entries were then presented at our first annual Poetry Cafe event!

Here is my personal favorite. Don't you think she should be a writer? She wants to be a history professor.

Live

Life is a journey many poets did say

And yes they are right in many a way

But it seems like from where I look

Life is like a very large book

It starts with a beginning soft and sweet

I’ll paint you a picture look and see

A Mother looks at a child with all hopes and dreams

While a Father is only a smile it seems.

Then the chapters of childhood go on without end.

With baseball and movies and broken arms to mend.

Of course the teenager days full of cries

Cell phones and dates and parents’ depressed sighs.

Wedding fun goes on real fast

But after that is all in the past

You’ll have bills and housework that just won’t stop

And look at that, dinner’s a flop

Honey we need a vacation, let’s hire a cook

If only it fit into my pocket book.

Yes not all chapters are happy. We all have our days

Where there is nothing good about life we can say

But there’s other day that will make you smile

Like a sunset you sit and watch for a while

But senior hood comes close to a book’s end

You help your children and adults you recommend

Because you lived you life’s story

You’ve read all the chapters through

And you can truly say

Life’s been a good story for you!

-Karlie