Community Corner
The Summer Poets Society: An Excerpt of Work
A look into poetry created by students at the library's Summer Writing Camp.
The hour-long session Friday passed quickly with kids buzzing around the table where poet Kristine O’Connell George had displayed her many books of children’s poetry.
“Did you enjoy that?” she asked a group of teenage girls, who giggled, nodded and clutched their notepads to their chests vowing to come back to writing camp the next week.
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Ryan Chiu, a sixth grader at Jefferson Middle School in San Gabriel, wrote this about the flip-flop:
Walking
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I am walking somewhere
The only problem is,
I don’t know where I’m going.
So now I’m lost
Somewhere in the ocean.
Katie Ba, a sixth grader at , penned this about the slinky:
What is stretchy? What is springy?
What is a transformer?
Changing all the time.
First a donut, then a flashlight.
Its silver metallic gleam reminds me
of the moon. Never the same shape for
long.
Maggie Lee, a seventh grader at South Pasadena Middle School, imagined this about the flip-flop:
A tie-dye flip-flop
Carelessly tossed beside the road
The once vibrant colors
Faded by the wind, rain and
Bleached by the sun.
It lies worn and ragged.
An old man comes by.
He has no home and is pushing a cart
Full of old things; trash no one else wants.
Stopping on the sidewalk,
He is only wearing one shoe, a flip-flop.
The old man sees the shoe and smiles,
The corners of his eyes crinkling.
He picks it up and dusts it off
Placing it on his foot
Walking off with his newfound treasure.
Want to write a poem of your own? Stay tuned for Kristine O’Connell George’s favorite tips for young poets.
