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By: Violet Bowdle
Night walks out
Water strolls in

Unforgiving

Gripping at fabric
screaming for Night

Unforgiving

madness, sadness, deathly scared
mom comes in

Unforgiving

Midnight flash floods
Night's belongings now flow

Unforgiving

Screaming and fighting
Wraps around the room

Unforgiving

Safe, Silence, fear flows out.

Forgiving.

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Mira

She stands out

Against the white

A splash of color

Facing the gray

Gray sky

Gray as ashes

Gray as stone

Dim lights

Wind blowing

She is crying

Over the rail

A buzz of sound

Like little insects

Snow is whispering

Down to the earth

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By Jack Bertke
Sun pored though the windows,
spilling on the floor,
the kids from Katwe weren't playing chess,
it was a get away from their lives,
their family,
and their problems.
Porage,
it tasted like heaven to them,
compared to what they ate,
they learn how to deal with their problems playing chess.
Chess gives the children the opportunities that most from that city do not have,
that is why they play

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Alex Bruce

A net splashes in the background
Two people sit on logs
a chessboard between them
They're arguing
Not about the game they are playing
but the one one of them will play
One says to the other
"I am not good enough to teach you"
They converse on
Birds chirp
Another net splashes into the water
A chess piece moves

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By: Eliana
The Queen of Katwe brought joy to everyone.

The news spread like rapid fire

Throughout the noisy marketplace.

Everyone rejoiced and laughter and happiness

Was spread from person to person.

The Queen of Katwe didn’t give up

And her hope and courage

Spread to people for them

To use in their own lives.

She encouraged those vendors

In the crowded street.

Those screaming kids in

The crystal river.

Even those all the way

On the hill in one room shacks.

She spread the happiness

To keep going and move

Forward to all of Katwe.

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By: Eden

The sunlight pulled at the wood planks
Trying to shine in
Fiona pushed herself into the room
Silence
Noise
The the girl in the pink dress
"I like chess because in chess the little one can become the big one."
A smiled climbed to Fiona's cheeks

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By: Rachel
She walks in with eyes creeping over her like a thunderstorm over a sea.
People throw words at her like smooth rocks on an open lake.
But her spirit has walls of iron.
They don't know what she has brought for them.
A great leader  her a drink as if accepting her to the group.
Now she's known  for winning but having a few bumps here and there.
Now she comes back everyday with the sun peeping through the windows showing her the path to success.

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Tense
Hopeful
Climatic
That's what a chess match is
It's like a boat
on the verge of sinking
no noises
only the taps
of the pieces falling into place
Bright light,
sunlight,
leaking through the high window
yellow walls reflect this light
yellow,
yellow walls.
family in the stands
pencil in hand
that's how the chess game goes

by Meredith

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By: Jack Barnes
Monsoon rains gushing down
baby left behind
rains keep coming
baby's hammock swinging
SNAP!
hammock breaks
water rushing fast as light
baby screaming
holding on to hammock
mother running
screaming yelling
water is brown and black
sky is grey
mother closer
objects flowing down the river of the house
mother and baby reunited again

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The Sun is Blaring
The Birds are chirping
The Pool is as blue as the sky
We Talk about Ketchup and how it is the best invention in the world, and we think
Sudan must be so lucky
with all its
ketchup.
-Clark Garza

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By: Lucy

The brightly colored sky and sun matched everyone's smiles

Teeth were as white as a cloud on a clear day

Feet moving and stomping the ground on the beat of the singing and clapping

Noise was coming from all directions

Men, women and children grasping creative signs raised above their heads

The clothing of the locals were sunny and  vivid

With colors ranging from all over the rainbow

Bright

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Silence
Silence fills the room like a big black cloud
Tick, Tick
Scratch Scratch on the bad of paper,
Shuffle, Shuffle, the pieces on the board
"WAAAAAAAH
WAAAAAAAH"
"Coach, he took my queen!"
"Shhhh, my little pioneer, Shhhh, my little pioneer."
By Kelly

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By: Adam
Normal looking kids sitting at the pool enjoying the clear water,
and the blazing sun but this is paradise to them.
The fries and ketchup they are eating for the first time.
This food we take for granted but to them it tastes like a god's food. The underprivileged, slum-living, dirty, malnourished kids able for 1 second to escape the manacles of poverty.

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By Rotem

Clocks ticking
The red of her shirt reminds me of defeat
Click
It's my turn
I see the queen, staring at me
She's telling me to move her
Click
Red shirt smiles
It is as suspenseful as a lion getting ready to pounce
Her hand touches the rook
I wince
My heart falls then comes back up again
I'm done
I've lost

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By: Abby S.
I desperately grasp
As my arms are ripped
from the hammock
Angry rapids
Bite at my feet
I can only hear
The sloshing water
against the walls
And the deafening pounding of rain
The dark, muddy waves
Now pool around my feet
As mama rips me
From the raging stream
Will Night be forgiven?

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by Luke
dimly lit
Brown and dull
clink clink clink
went the chess pieces
one last clink
a smile spread
across Benjamin's face
i won
i won
he danced around
like a monkey
thrilled thrilled thrilled
once again
a dimly lit room
brown and dull
with little murmur

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Passionate,
Proudly strutting across the room,
Passionate,
Colors of black and maroon,
Passionate,
Clatters on the chess boards,
Passionate,
As tough and strong as a wall,
Passionate,
outsmarting and willing them all.

JC

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By: Ethan VanHoose

Phiona jumped out of
the car and
was surprised.
She saw colorful
signs with her
name on it.
People were
cheering, "Phiona, Phiona, Phiona!"
She ran through the
crowd with her trophy
making her way
to the front
of her house
with Robert.
Everyone started
dancing and singing
including Phiona.
People were
singing and dancing
like the USA
just won the Olympics.
The people of Katwe
were so excited
and proud of
Phiona that she
won The National
Africa Chess Tournament.

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By: Audrey Gebben

I feel touched
the family pulled up
in a rusty old van
onto a gravel driveway
to a small house
shaded by trees
green light shining
they got out of the van
stumbled to the house
Night comes out
with her baby
Mom is crying
I feel touched

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Joseph Rose

Sitting by the pool
with a nice warm breeze
The taste of french fries
dipped in the best invention ever
The gooey tomato paste
known as ketchup
One of the best times of their lives

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By: Betty Jo
Back and around.
The sky was dull,
The water grey.
Back and around.
The boat rocked and swayed.
A lonely bird called.
No answer.
Back and around.
Back and around.
Back and around.
Faster now.
Frogs croaked and groaned.
The water rippled.
Back and around.
The lone white bird.
The solitary fisherman.
He is hungry.
He is starving.
He is alone.
He is dying.
Back and around.
Around and back.

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By: Henry
Clack, clack
The pieces moved thoughtfully around the board
As stop watches ticked and tocked
More pieces left the board
Even after they left
The others carried out their mission
To get the king
And the one that shouldn't have been sent off
Was
The girl using the board cried out
"Coach! Coach! He took my queen"
Then she was sent from the room
And all went back to normal
Clack, clack
Tick, tock...

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By: Griffin Walchak
The pioneers were facing off agent kings college
Gloria was playing a very tall school boy. The click of his rook agents the board as he took Gloria's queen.
"HE TOOK MY QUEEN!"
Everyone in the dim lit room looks over
"HE TOOK MY QUEEN!"
Mr. Katende bolts over and swoops up Gloria into his arms
"HE TOOK MY QUEEN!"
Gloria yells as she is carried out of the dim lit library.

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By: Michael Colombo

Gloria moves with confidence
Her tall opponent studying hard
Click, Click, Click
Timers in the background
And while this next part makes me laugh, this next part makes Gloria very mad
The tall man,
with the flick of a wrist,
takes her queen
"Coach! Coach!"
"He took my queen!"
"He took my queen!"
Gloria starts yelling and screaming like a howler monkey
Coach carries her out of the room
And the silence returns

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By:Sam G.

A dark brown dirt road stretching out
wind blowing the mix of dirt and sand into the stalls of the nearby market
bustling with conversation concerning trade deals
The mid-to-late afternoon sun glinting off of a dull silver hairpin.

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By: Maggie Shreiner

Debris floating in flowing dark water.
Wet clothes sticking to people's body.
Screaming
Clouds swallowing the sky.
Dull light
Nothing but dark water.
Howling wind
Screaming.
My brother holding on for dear life.
Fear filling the air.
Clouds covering the sky like
Dirt covering the ground.
Screaming

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It's all dark
Grey, Black, brown
Honking car horns
Happy screams
Then a mean voice
Phiona looks at the boy
Like a maze
All dark
She doesn't know where to go
Then she sees the chess board
all lit up in white light
Phiona knows her way around
Over on that board
She looks at the mean voice
"I Challenge you."
By: Amelia

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By: Madeline
Mama was crying
Brother was crying
The skies were crying
Casting a dark shadow down upon our little home
I was afraid as was everyone in our town
We were afraid of what was going to happen next