Santa Clara County Youth Poetry Selection

Jennifer Swanton Brown & students	A Youth Poetry Reading in Cupertino

Let's Say "Yes" to Compassion

Let's say "yes" to compassion.
How do you use compassion?  
I am smart, so I can share compassion.

Compassion dreams about being nice,
compassion draws a red picture.

We are never going to stop
building compassion!

I share orange juice with my friend,
it tastes sweet like carrot fire.

Compassion is awesome
with telling the truth.

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First graders, Room 22
Mrs. Thimgan, classroom teacher
Regnart Elementary School
Cupertino, California
Discovery Day, April 28, 2006
Jennifer Swanton Brown, poet/teacher
California Poets in the Schools

Imagination

Imagination sleeps at night.
The ghost is sweeping the scary spirits.
I imagine I am in a tree reading a book,
   the book was about morning.

The monster came behind me,

   snow flew on the monster,
      in a cloud. He fell on me,

         a cold wind.

As I was sleeping last night,

my imagination whispered, "Draw!"

I woke up with a wild laugh!

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Second graders, Room 12
Mrs.Kirsten Lee and Mrs.Schroeder, classroom teachers
Regnart Elementary School
Cupertino, California
Discovery Day, April 28, 2006
Jennifer Swanton Brown, poet/teacher
California Poets in the Schools

Friendship

Friendship is like my birthday.
A donkey is my friend.
Friendship means love when
   many people are around.

Even a dinosaur can like friendship.

My friend and I like mountain monsters.
Teachers like friendship and purple flowers.
People build rainbows.

I like to blow bubbles with my friends.

Let's crash into our rainbow
and get a pot of gold
with a friend!

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Second graders, Room 4
Miss Whalen, classroom teacher
Regnart Elementary School
Cupertino, California
Discovery Day, April 28, 2006
Jennifer Swanton Brown, poet/teacher
California Poets in the Schools

Rain

My dad studies rain.
Dad says studying rain is fun.
Without rain, the land would be dry.

Rain sounds like music.
I pretend it's raining when it's not.
The rain smells like water,
   like mountains,
      rain smells hard,
         rain looks like good ghosts.
The wind blows and spring
   jumps like a dry rainbow!

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Second graders, Room 10
Miss Emanuel, classroom teacher
Regnart Elementary School
Cupertino, California
Discovery Day, April 28, 2006
Jennifer Swanton Brown, poet/teacher
California Poets in the Schools