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The winter air blew fierce today,

Revealing a shrieking sound from above.

Not accepting their fate, scientists dove

From every which way under tables, chairs, and houses.

Bombs splitting the night air,

Evoking memories of havoc and chaos

Like a grave evokes memories of death,

Happening all in an instant.

Buildings crumbling, sounds booming,

Children shrieking, fear lurking,

And above all doubt,

Silence, silence, silence…

Just for a moment,

The sound of death and chaos

Has ceased.

By: Nitai Pran Schomaker

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Smashing, cutting, resizing

And it was born.

From one tree,

Hundreds of thousands

Are created.

Delivered in quiet,

Passing under planks of wood,

Shuffled through corridors,

Handed from one grubby hand to another.

Pierced by a silver pen,

Injecting black fluid

Right onto its pristine white finish,

Folded hands to toes.

With a final farewell,

It was gone.

Passed under planks of wood,

Shuffled through corridors,

Handed from one grubby hand to another.

Delivered in quiet.

For the last time it was

Touched, folded, and dropped,

Alone, abandoned, and discarded.

By: Nitai Pran Schomaker

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The desert sand blew fierce today

To the discovery of a girl, a skeleton

as rare as Shakespeare’s signature.

Her bones developed far beyond her age

With only ten ribs

like the syllables in Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter.

Her skull ridged at a peak,

Her bones hardened as a six year old.

Although she’s tinier than Shakespeare’s pencil,

Her age at odds with her size..

A girl with 50,000  dollars of attention when dead,

But likely none when alive.

Not of much importance the then

But plenty now.

With genes as rare as Shakespeare's signature.
By Amulya Vajja

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By Brinda
The xanthous shell in the pocket of my bag

found once

long before I had it,

The rough shell with rippled waves

rusted by the sun

shown xanthous in the sand

The rugged shell dotted white

washed out now

abandoned for days

The xanthous shell in the pocket of my bag

was found once

long before I had it

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You are wood and nails, fiberglass and insulation

Nothing more, some say.

I say, “No way.”

You are my attic

My come-in-here attic

My tunnel-under-civilization attic

You are my-lock-all-my-friends-up attic

My sneak-around-the-walls-like-a-ninja attic

My avoid-slipping-through-the-floorboards attic

My “Lets-all-get-in-and-try-not-to-die” attic

You are whatever-you-need-to-be attic

My get-away-from-my-family attic

My overly-dangerous-roller-coaster-attic

My secret-ninja-layer attic

You are wood and nails,

Fiberglass and insulation

But so much

More,

My attic that is super edgy

Just like me.

By: Nitai Pran Schomker

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By Gandiva

Even from afar,

You can see-

Their ragged cloaks

Flowing in wind,

Even further

You can see,

Hogwarts in the distance

Luminous by the fire-

From the candles

Of the Great Hall.

As they come

Closer and closer,

So does you doom

For when they come,

You lose

Your precious soul.

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By Gandiva

From Azkaban

They came,

Looking for

Sirius Black.

To Hogwarts

They go—

Not caring

Who is there.

If you get

In their way,

You will suffer

A fate known

As living death,

Never to be

Saved from.

For the loss

Of a soul

Can't be overcome.

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A Tigress and lion came

Revealing a baby liger.

Zoologists closed from all around

Observed

The awed.

The zoologist stopped looking at other animals

And cared to you --

Tsar. You fit in their palms

A fragile liger fed goat milk,

to delicate to see your mom or dad

watched carefully while you are playing

and fed like a king

They let you sleep for 16 hours

And play when you want

They treated you like your name

Tsar Russian for emperor they called

Forgetting the others

Tsar became the liger

that no one knows.

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In the graveyard,

the stench of corpses assaults his nose.

The lightning

strikes the ground.

Wind howls

through the air,

And wet mud covers

His shoes.

The eyes of cats follow him

As he inches towards the grave.

A stone etched with the

name of his loved one.

A spider crawling

Feeding away at his skin.

The sky black

with little moonlight .

In a graveyard,

full of twigs.

By Amulya Vajja

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As i look at this small tree of mine ,

A small tree with branches and leaves

Is small, broken branches but fine.

My I want to relax by myself tree

My I want to do homework so my sister won’t bother me tree

My let's read a book and rush through the maze tree

My listen to music peacefully tree

My let me sit under it and look at the stars tree

My let me escape so no one can find me tree

Even if my tree is the size of a broom

It still is my small tree,

Even if it's just branches and leaves

It still fills me up with glee.

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By Gandiva

Planks and nails, desks and chairs, teachers and students

That is what most people see you as,

But I’m not fooled, I see that you are way more.

You are the place I call my second home,

My place to see my friends,

My place to have teachers who care about us,

My place to see everyone I love who isn’t my family,

You are my place to be free and away from my problems,

My place to do crazy hanging-off-of-stuff stunts on the playground til the teachers look our way,

My place to see Vraju almost lose a finger before the door was fixed,

My place to to talk to friends to feel better after a bad day,

You are my place to enjoy learning,

My place to learn about Krsna,

My place to learn what I need to know,

You are planks and nails,

Desks and chairs,

Teachers and students,

But so much more to me,

You are my school

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Agent x

Napalms will toast your flesh.

But the tormentors Agent x

Forces you to watch your loved ones in turmoil

Till the beeps beep faster

Last I checked torchers

A no-go

But what would you call,

Agent x

The worst fight is

A fight you can't fight.

By:BALA

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You are paper and cardstock,pictures and writing

Nothing more some say

I say no way

You are my omnibus

Wy noise canceling omnius

My chlorine scented omnibus

You are my wake up in the morning omnibus

My  skip chores  omnibus

My flashlight under the covers omnibus

You are my first and best omnibus

My “Godfather” of omnibuses

My escape to a land of wonder omnibus

You are paper and cardstock

Pictures and writing

But so much more

My omnibus that is bigger than me

Omnibus

By:BALA

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By Brinda

Under the arch

of the trees

ripples water-

aqua green

honeysuckles wave

bees buzz

goldfish swim

while water splashes

spring leaves growing

ripe mangos swinging

branches twisting

vines hanging

bright sun peeks

through thin clouds

soft breeze blows

and rose petals fall

Under the arch

I see

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In the darkened

Tree tunnel

Light bleeds through

The canopy roof.

Beams dance upon

The forest floor.

Moss dangles from

The branches.

Walls of trees

Block the breeze.

Paving saffron paths

Between the trees

In the darkened

Tree tunnel

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Who am i

Deep in the mind numbing town

Of Philadelphia

I was born

I heard tell of

Vigorous ideals

-not devilish ideas-

Presented as your rule

Legal document

The story told vigorous ideals

Around which

I was created

I am the constitution

And I eat examples for the -

Many of man

By:BALA

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I wasn’t always old.

Once a paper soft and fresh

And the smell of ink and paint-

To an explorers hand

I was sold away.

“Oh how I miss home”

On a creaky cracked boat

I left to the salty sour seas

Through the gray water and ghastly fog [punctuation]

Some days were so dry

The water petrified and the wind missing [punctuation]

The explorers dry hands turned and shook me

Then he wrapped me back up.

Finally a thump and the explorer yells

“India!” he draws his pen and unfolded me

My day has come as the ink ripples upon my surface.

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The shell found in the ocean

Tides,Waves and the motion

Covered by the wet sand,

It felt smooth in my hand

The white shell shimmered like a pearl,

And on top was a swirl

The inside was pink like flowers,

It made me want look at it for hours

Looking at the brownish texture,

I wondered if it was a pirate’s treasure

As I look at it for the last time

This makes me imagine if i’m

On the shore of the ocean

With the tides, waves, and the motion

Looking at the shell once again covered in wet sand.

By: Jamuna

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The glistening shell washed up from the sea

The home of an animal before

Given to me from a bag

The glossy shell was painted by the sea

Color riples eclosing the shell

In stripes of amber and white

The silky smooth shell was formed by the sea

With a spiraling point and jagged sides

The shell looks dangerous to feet

The used shell was raised by the sea

With a flesh pink inside.

Scars still rest within the shell showing imprints of its residents.

By Arjuna