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Just Write Spring 2006
Junior Session  -  Senior Session









Junior Session
Acrostic Poems

Sea is where I live
Ear is what I don't have
Air is what I don't breathe
Shell is what I have
Hail is my fear
East is where I am facing
Lame!
Lame, I'm not lame
--Qimin Wu

Birthdays are very fun
It is sweet
Restroom after you eat.
Today we have a party
High-speed jumping and messing around
Daytime no cake
Americans like it
Yumm, yumm.

Cake rocks
American food
Kill you if you eat too much
Eew, I ate too much.
--George

Shiny and so bright
They even have their own song
A happy time looking at them
Rushing through the day, visible in the night
Sunny like the sun
--Alex Cai

Dinosaurs are scary
It's a kind of bone
No, it's a kind of dinosaur, too.
On the ground!
See it!
A ground it's looking for something
Ugo find that
Ring is big.

Sun is hot
Kids don't like it
Egg is big
Light is bright
Eagle is smaller than this
That is very big
Oh! Let's go
Nice!
--Jayoung

Over the
Cow-colored
Town
Of death,
Poverty, uranium
Universe of
Stupidness
--Theo

Sun is bright
Up in the sky and under the sky,
No where is dark.
Sometimes the sun is shy, so he covers himself with clouds
High in the sky, but it is bright and warm.
If it is cold, it makes you warm.
No one hates the sun.
Everyone likes the sun.
--Sukhyung

Cowboy, wear this boot!
Other people said
Wow-cool boots
Buy these boots, it's too hard
Orange-colored boots
Yellow boots have some gold color.
Boys want to be cowboys.
Oops-not all boys
Other boys want to be other things, an example is
Teachers
--Jeffrey Won

Sun is bright
Up in the sky and under the sky,
No where is dark.
Sometimes the sun is shy, so he covers himself with clouds
High in the sky, but it is bright and warm.
If it is cold, it makes you warm.
No one hates the sun.
Everyone likes the sun.
--Sukhyung

Sun is very shiny
Now I will go outside
And I'm going to play music.
Ready to play music?
Eat some snacks.

Dogs are eating snacks too?
Really! Dogs are eating the snacks
Under the table
Making a concert.
--James Shin

Super smart
Teenagers make
U-bombs to blow up the
Planet
Icky
Doom

So
Teenagers
Are
Rulers of stupid
Stars
--Alex Zhan

Raining outside
And cloudy too.
It's a bad day to go outside and play.
No, no I hate rainy days.
Clouds are gone now
Loud birds are singing
Oh! I can go outside and play with my friends!
Ugo, let's play outside!
Day is shiny, I love shiny days.
--Jenny Shin

Supplies carrier for sports
Practicing gear inside
Outside protection for weather
Railgun protection, too
Too disgusting for someone starving to eat
So dull and boring

Bats you pack in it, even try to hit with it
Attitude to all
Goofy looking when emply.
--Alex Cai

Sunshine is warm.
Tests are hard.
All right, I'll do it because my teacher makes me.
Run, run after the test.
So what else can I do?
--George

Gray-haired Robin and Nill in the piano room.
Robin is playing the piano.
And
Nill is playing the piano, too. A
Doll is on the grand piano.

Playing the piano is so cool.
I like piano.
And a boy
Named Jeffrey likes piano, too.
Oh! I forgot to play the piano!
--Irene Won

Flame is not in me
Light is what I'm good at
A rat is what I scare
Shadow is what I destroy
Hair is what I don't have
Light is also when I don't have
In my batteries, they're dead
Goodness, they're like my
Heart
That's what I need.
--Qimin Wu

A
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Oses stuff
Onto it
To use it for a
Hall of doom to
Burn
Rubber with
Universal pa-
St and to brush your
Hairy teeth
--Theo

Stars have light
They live in space or sky?
Air lives in their body
Roll-roll around in space
Sky loves stars?
--Jeffrey Won

Dragons will
Rule every
Almighty
God and goddess
On the planet of
Nexxes where

Blood is the
Opening to an
Alternate world of magical
Tentacles
--Alex Zhan

Questions are good for studying.
Usually answers are smart. I in one country,
Everyone can answer the question.
Smart people are in that one country. And other countries
Try again.
In that country they have smart people. If you want a str-
Ong country, answer the many questions. Stro-
Ng country people are smart.
--Irene Won

Digital camera is a pain
In the butt.
Gives you nothing but
Ignorance.
Telling you that you
Are dumb.
Laughing silently at you.

Cranky all the time.
Always blackmailing you.
Machine-gunning you
Every day.
Reaping you at your death,
Angry forever you will be.
--Alex Zhan



Senior Session: Selected Poetry


She awoke one morning
And the world had no color
She walked on
On the gray pavement
And nothing was vivid
Music wouldn't seize your soul
And pound through your living veins like savage fire
Until you were filled with harmony
And you would never wish to cut out your heart
And instead cage a live shadow-winged raven in your prison of bone
Because a raven wouldn't betray you
to a myriad of ends
It was winter
In the summer
Snow fell
But the flakes felt like nothing
And the air didn't move
No one seemed to notice
Because they didn't know why
Had never let
That most terrible secret grace their ears

She knows
And knowledge is power
She remembers
When the world was vivid
When music made you feel radiant
And sorrow and hate and passion and love
Brought those doe-eyed children of tomorrow
All bearing scars
To their inherited earth

Now she walks
And now she breathes
She tries to listen to her heart
But it doesn't beat
Her skin is empty
And so
She bites at her hand
And her blood is still red
Her pulse drums out the pattern of her life
And so
She opens the cut wide
And lets the rhythm and the red blood
Spill on the snow
A reminder of the old days
to a brave new world
A last gift to a dying earth

And ravens fly over
And they see that color of life
Printed in the freakish snow
In awe, they circle closer
Then perch upon the still-warm fingers
Then
As if called
by an unseen sachem,
or a benign zephyr
Their dark wings are patterned against the heavens once more
But they bring the girl with them
Borne on that fluid curtain of twilight feathers
To clearer skies

-By Explodeahipppie