And wrap around you,

Take the neon lights and make a crown,

Take the Lenox Avenue Busses,

Taxis, Subways,

And for your love song tone their rumble down.

Take Harlem’s heartbeat,

Make a drumbeat,

Put it on a record, let it whirl,

And while we listen to it play,

Dance with you till day--

Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl. 

- Langston Hughes

Olivia Burgess

"I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
I'm nobody! Who are you? 
Are you--nobody--too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! they'd advertise--you know!

How dreary--to be--Somebody!
How public--like a Frog--
To tell one's name--the livelong June--
To an admiring bog! 
- Emily Dickinson

Creighton Sullivan 

"The Fog"
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking 
over harbor and city 
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
  -Carl Sandburg 
Harmonie O'Neal

And wrap around you,

Take the neon lights and make a crown,

Take the Lenox Avenue Busses,

Taxis, Subways,

And for your love song tone their rumble down.

Take Harlem’s heartbeat,

Make a drumbeat,

Put it on a record, let it whirl,

And while we listen to it play,

Dance with you till day--

Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl. 
- Langston Hughes

Sarah Ginn

"Who knows if the Moon's" 
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky–filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited,where

always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves
- E.E. Cummings
Arianah Lomnick

On little cat feet.

It sits looking

Over harbor and city

On silent haunches

And then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg


Sarah Ginn

"Nothing Gold Can Stay"
Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost

Arianah Lomnick

"I'm Nobody! Who are you?
I'm Nobody! Who are you? 
Are you--Nobody-Too?
Then there's a pair of us!
Don't tell! They'd advertise--you know!
How dreary--to be--Somebody!
How public--like a Frog--
To tell one's name--the livelong June--To and admiring bog!
-Emily Dickinson

Sarah Ginn

"The Sloth"
In moving slow he has no Peer.
You ask him something in his Ear,
He thinks about it for a Year;

And, then, before he says a Word
There, upside down (unlike a Bird),
He will assume that you have Heard—

A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug.
But should you call his manner Smug,
He'll sigh and give his Branch a Hug;

Then off again to Sleep he goes,
Still swaying gently by his Toes,
And you just know he knows he knows.
- Theodore Roethke

Arianah Lomnick

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

Anika Marotz

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour,

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

- Robert Frost

Sarah Ginn

  
 The Pool Players.
        Seven at the Golden Shovel.

We real cool. We   

Left school. We

Lurk late. We 
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We   

Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We   

Die soon.

marcus  

get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their balloon,
why then
we’d go up higher with all the pretty people

than houses and steeples and clouds:
go sailing
away and away sailing into a keen
city which nobody’s ever visited,where

always
it’s
Spring)and everyone’s
in love and flowers pick themselves
- E.E. Cummings

Olivia Burgess

Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We   

Die soon.

Anika Marotz

"This is Just to Say"
I have eaten

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold
- William Carlos Williams

Arianah Lomnick

In moving-slow he has no Peer.
You ask him something in his Ear,
He thinks about it for a Year;

And, then, before he says a Word
There, upside down (unlike a Bird),
He will assume that you have Heard-

A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug.
But should you call his manner Smug,
He'll sigh and give his Branch a Hug;

Then off again to Sleep he goes,
Still swaying gently by his Toes,
And you just know he knows he knows.

marcus

THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking 
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

Oscar Jaimes

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold

marcus

marcus

"We Real Cool" 
THE POOL PLAYERS 
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL
We real cool.We 
Left school.We
Lurk late.We 
Strike straight.We
Sing sin.We 
Thin gin.We
Jazz June.We
Die soon. 
-Gwendolyn Brooks
Harmonie O'Neal

We real cool. We   

Left school. We

Lurk late. We

Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We   

Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We   

Die soon.

Daffodils – W.W.Worth.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Brian Torres

the plums

that were in

the icebox

and which

you were probably

saving

for breakfast

Forgive me

they were delicious

so sweet

and so cold- William Carlos 

Savannah Nunez

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.- Robert Frost

Savannah Nunez

A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.

In truth it pictures not my destination

But my life.

...

But life without meaning is the torture

Of restlessness and vague desire--

It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
        -Edgar Lee Masters

Kade Whitehurst

Time is like the wind,
Slow and smooth.
Time can change swiftly,
Fast and fierce.

Brian Torres

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

 -Robert frost 
Keonie Franklin

"The kids slumped in their chairs to glum to complain. An to make matters worse, it started to rain."
-Dr. Suess
Gabby Chukwu 

"Nature's first green is gold,her hardest hue to hold her early leaf's a flower but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf so Eden sank to grief. Sol dawn goes down today, nothing gold can stay." 
-Robert Frost
Gabby Chukwu

 

"THE POOL PLAYERS
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We left school. We lurk late. We strike straight. We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon."
-Gwendolyn Brooks
Gabby Chukwu

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

-kayden martin

"I wandered lonely as a cloud
that floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.”
-William Wordsworth

-kayden martin

-kayden martin

-kayden martin