A Forest of Poems

The following poems were composed on Parents’ Day, by the students and parents of Mrs. Maeder’s C block sixth grade class.

Fill the woods
With your many colorful arms
Announce it’s fall.

I remember the tall, strong willow I used to climb
I remember the flowers at the top
I remember eating lunch with the willow.
I remember the day the willow died and left me alone.

You stand alone
And you reach so high
You are beautiful.

I was surprised to see how green you have grown
For it is only spring
And your lovely bark has already begun to sing.
I love you so.

Shade, spread across the lawn
You are our only source of help
From the blazing sun, oh please
Just a breeze.

I rest under your shadow
At the end of day
Blissfully my eyes close
An acorn hits me
Sadly ends my siesta.

A living thing
Tall, sturdy, swinging
In the breeze.

Magnificent limbs always
Widespread, alone with the rocks
For company, nobody.

I stand in the kitchen
My dreams filled with hope
Tall wood, twigs and bark.

I saw your fingers
Swaying in the distance
At the hub of the world
You stand tall
In your greenery surroundings
And my dreams

The royal oak
In my backyard is
great for swinging.

As the breeze blew
Outstretched arms went bare
Fall had arrived.

Stately and alone
Reaching to the sky
Fall is near.

Maple, I see
How you glisten with glee
Yellow, green sea.

Sheltering mother green
Are you my old friend
Spreading life about?

Slab of brown,
A sea of green there
Curves and twists.

Tall and strong
Soaring high above
It bursts up, up.

Towering to the sky
With arms reaching upwards
Bright colors dancing as it sways
I laugh with joy.

As I count
Your many rings of time
I feel young!

It stands alone
Gnarly mass of twisted wood
Stately, silent, old.

Like snow falling
Enveloped in clouds of scent
Consequence of success

Oh, wonderful creation
You sway back and forth without cease
To give me the breeze I so need.

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