What is it like to be a Cat?
by Valerie Laroque
(Fieldstone Ventures)
I have a good life because I don't need to shop for food. I can sleep anytime. I like to run around all day.
One thing I don't like is my bath time or going in the house when it is time to go in. I enjoy my life when my hair is combed. I give more kisses to be combed more. I only have one cat I don't like. He is a gray cat. I don't let him around my yard at all. One other thing I don't like is a smelly cat box. They say that cats have nine lives. I guess my life being a cat isn’t so bad then.
Yellow
By David Strong (Fieldstone Ventures)
Yellow is the sun.
Yellow is fresh corn.
Yellow is my hat.
Yellow is a pencil.
Yellow tastes like bananas.
Yellow smells like dandelion.
Yellow sounds like a canary.
Yellow feels like cold marbles.
Yellow looks like a Volkswagon
Yellow makes me hot.
Ode to my father “dad”
by Ileah Sanderson
(Swan Valley Adult Education)
Sometimes I think of my day
And wonder to me if you could say
That you love me so very much
And in your hand you’d have mine to clutch
Would my life be a little less bad?
Or possibly in heart I’d be a little less sad
What made you run and try to flee
What were you thinking when you
abandoned me
All of my friends have someone to call dad
And sorry to admit in my heart it made me
mad
Maybe its better that I don’t know you
But I always would wonder if you think of
me too
The least you could do is pick up the phone
Maybe then, I won’t feel so alone
I hate you for leaving this space in my heart
Sometimes I wish I could just tear you apart
Then I won’t feel so badly unwanted
Maybe even then a little less daunted