- instant messages
Spring 2002
Leaves Covered in Sweat
Summer, seat,
Know where to go, no where to hide
My veins dripping from perspiration,
Lying on the leaves who have fallen into the kindling before me.
Kaitlin, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli School
Dew
Sweet Citrus
Carbonation sparkling on my tongue
Neon green-yellow
Fresh as the matching leaves
Smooth aluminum
Sweaty as the summer air but glacial
Fizzing liquid
A clamorous beverage
Radiant nectar
My favorite thirst quencher
Kirby
Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy
"Cactus in the City"
Like a foreigner among
All that is the same.
Elisabeth, Grade 9
Cardinal Pacelli School
"The Web of Life"
They look and look for a way out,
But get caught in tangles,
Tangles that can't be undone or rethought.
Ashely, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli School
Over The Edge
Like a million dreams being thrown out the window,
in this case over the edge,
so they can join the other billion shattered dreams thrown away into a
pool of despair.
Stephen, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli
"Man Climbing Mountain"
As I shove my ice pick into the ice as if I were digging my own grave. I pull my self up and I look up and it seems that I am not getting any closer.
Patrick, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli School
"The instrument of Time"
The instrument that keeps the infinite procession of time is like that constant rhythmic pattern of the sidewalks of New York City.
Mari, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli School
Instant Messages
the impediment of clarity
silently swirls.
resounding resoluteness
hammers essential breathing.
confinement to generalizations
muffles individualism
simplicity is dominant.
complexity apparent.
Alison, Grade 11
Mariemont High School
Wandering
Green clouds
Hang happily over the city,
Changing the neighborhoods.
They float swiftly,
From street to street,
Spreading news of gloom.
The voodoo dolls
Are left stunned
And freeze
Cloud in their tracks.
Jessica, Grade 9
Purcell Marian High School
In Your Absence
In Your Absence, My Mind is Idle
Of thoughts of intellectual pertinence
And rather thoughts of your entirety
Fly reckless in my oblivion.
In Your Absence, My Soul is Dormant
In waiting for an explosion
Like one of butterflies in a field of daisies.
For now, they'll be resting.
In Your Absence, My Heart is Silenced
From all the screams and shouts of bliss
And echoes where your love rings,
Sharply penetrates the tranquility.
In Your Absence, My Pain is Gratified.
Only by a serenity and a knowing you're there.
When once again our lips embrace,
My mind, soul and heart are complete.
Kelly, Grade 12
Loveland High School
"Clouds that see all"
They hang in the quiet sky like pillows filled with images from a little boy's dream.
Madeline, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli School
"The Cactus"
He stands still; watching as bolts of
powerful electricity spider vein around him.
He is not afraid - he welcomes the storm,
for he knows it may be his last
drink for a long, long time.
Leland, Grade 8
Cardinal Pacelli School
