Water and Wood

 Hi guys!  Here is a song I wrote.


(at first the song is gentle, peaceful, and calm)

Are you wood or are you water?
Are you free or are you blocked?
Are you wood or are you water?

(pause)

Even an iron grate can't keep water in,
It always gets out, by flowing between the cracks.
But wood, well it flows a little less,
Gets stuck between the cracks,
And it won't go on.

(chorus: loud and upbeat)

Will you sing your heart out?
Will you dance like crazy?
Will you make your own tunes,
Or just sing along?
Will you flip your hair back?
Will you raise your arms up?
Will you make a difference?
Or just sit in the shadows?

(back to gentler, calmer tune)

Are you wood or are you water?
Are you free or are you blocked?
Are you wood or are you water?

(almost a chant, gets louder and louder)

Are you flowing?
Are you free?
Are you flowing?
Are you free?
Are you flowing?
Are you free?
Are you FREE!

( chorus again so loud and upbeat)

Will you sing your heart out?
Will you dance like crazy?
Will you make your own tunes,
Or just sing along?
Will you flip your hair back?
Will you raise your arms up?
Will you make a difference?
Or just sit in the shadows?

(back to gentle tune)

Everybody makes mistakes,
Even the best of us,
But,
Not everyone counts them as failures.

'Cause are you wood or are you water?
Are you wood or are you water?
Are you wood or are you water?

Spring! Flowers! Poetry!

Hi Everybody,
Spring is almost here...at my house the snow is melting rapidly!
If anyone has some spare time please write a poem about 
spring,birds,flowers or anything that has to do with spring.  Here is a poem I wrote:


Spring
Flowers blooming all around us,
Showing us that spring is here,
A bird's sweet song,
acts as a lullaby,
For a sleeping baby.

-Norah


Good luck with coming up with some poems about spring!

Writing With Pictures

Have you ever seen a picture and it tells a story as good as or better than you could make it with words?  This is what I call writing with pictures.  Sometimes pictures are as important to a story as words.  Pictures to go along with a story often open up your imagination.  I have a little challenge for you: write a poem or a short story and draw a picture to go along with it.  The picture can be as detailed or as simple as you want as long as it's relevant to the story.  Please have fun and get writing...And drawing!!!

Change

Our wants are not needs,
Earth will adapt, we cannot.
Change, or we vanish.


By Dave

Potential

Just beneath the snow,
Seeds and larvae, sleeping things,
Life waits underground.

By Ava

Cold Dreams

Winter pens us in,
Bodies trapped,so with our minds,
We explore outside.


This Haiku is by Derek