Mighty Blue
Lindsay Walatka
Grade 11
Queen of the Water
| Screams | crawling through | splashing waves |
| Conquering | rocks with | dirty shoes |
| Purple pink | starfish | suctioning themselves |
| Upside down | in puddles of | clear water |
| Small wet | seaweed trees | building forests |
| By the ocean | mussels | covered in |
| Barnacles | form blankets | over boulders |
| Which I | climb like | a spider |
| Sand grinding | itself into | my skin |
| Roots of | dead plants | braided into |
| Halos | making me | queen of the water |
Jasmine Moser
10th Grade
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Sitting still, peacefully silent
Awakened abruptly, harsh and violent
Ripples sinking, until as before,
The water is still, moving no more.
The movement is gone before your eyes,
A mirage you think a mask, a guise
How could something so explosive and wild
Turn back into something so tranquil and mild?
Ever transforming, ever deceiving
One minute calm, next minute heaving
Quiet like cats, loud like thunder
Full of life, beauty and wonder
By Caroline Nattinger
8th Grade
Image of the Sea
Rieko Michelle Whitfield
Grade 6
Ocean Dreams
I go to the ocean when I need to cry
I know it won’t tell
I spill my worries to the sand crab
though he scuttles away
I think he listenslike a stone, I lie in the sun
so I can be bleached white with time
share wisdom from the center of the earth
find a molten core made of chocolateI long to discover secret caves
never before stained with human feeling or thoughts
meet mermaids and sea lions
the clean, kind beings who don’t care if I’m crazyI want to leave my clothes on the shore
swim with the dolphins and whales
I want to laugh
run and scream
with the wind
as I create my list of secret ocean dreams--Melody Lester, 6th Grade
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On the sand
I was laying on the sand
I looked up at the moon
smiled
I saw sand
blowing forcefully in the wind
I picked up a handful
it slowly drifted away
Corwin Zelazny, 2nd Grade
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