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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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