As I wait

With my eyes looking around like a hawk waiting for its prey

My ears open

Ready to strike

Hands sweating

Then I hear a sudden sound

I spin around like dreidel on hanukkah

Nothing but a couple of lousy squirrels

The first hour passes

Then the second

Then the third day

Still nothing

Food running low

An animal must die so I can survive

Thinking I might die in the woods

Then I hear a loud sound over the next hill

I look up

I see a huge rack of horns

I scope in

I finally see a deer’s dark right eye

The eye is like a small black hole

BANG

I miss to its left

TCH-GCK

I reload

I scope in again

I take a deep breath

BANG

The deer drops like a sack of potatoes

I scamper over to my kill like a cheetah

Atlast I beat the Wild

-Riley Mitchell

In my Mustang shifting gears

Six speed to seventy

Seven seconds rush by

Driving fast down a no lane road

The barren blacktop beneath my whirling wheels

Guard down, top down,

Deep bass country music turned up.

I’m going a million miles an hour

With no care in the world, no thoughts in my head

I’m not looking back, I’m living for today

With my Mustang as my witness

I accelerate along on my journey

To where? I don’t know

As long as it’s not where I’ve been.

-Palmer Steward

Tick, Tock,

The only sound in the whole room

Except for when they whisper

And when we write

Tick, Tock,

Everyone's eyes

On the clock,

Waiting to be let free

From this wretched place,

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,

The sound of freedom

The sound of hope

The shuffling and squeaking of feet

On the dirty tile floor

As we race to leave

Detention

-Alex Molczyk

S p l i s h,

S p l a s h,

That’s how the ocean used to go.

But, sadly,

Now the ocean is drowning,

In garbage

That we put there.

But we don’t care!

We should care!

The ocean,

Day by day,

Is waiting to drown in its own home.

We should care that the fish population is decreasing,

We should care that the bird population is decreasing,

But instead, we only care about ourselves!

The ocean is like a flower,

It needs to be taken care of in order to survive.

So why don't we take care of it?

We can fix our mistakes,

We can change the ocean, the beaches, the air

We should change!

One day the world might depend on us changing,

So why not start now!

And make the ocean thrive with fish,

Make the air flourish with birds and,

Make the world prosper with life,

S p l i s h,

S p l a s h,

That’s how the ocean will go again,

Someday,

If only we tried.

-Hannah Webber

The Goal

Tie game

third period

ten seconds left

Face off in their zone

I line up for the face off

I feel my adrenaline racing like an accelerating car

Quiet as quiet can be

Fans faces fearing our failure

Veins as cold as ice

My thoughts saying

We need a goal!

Won the face off, back to the defensemen

He winds up for a slapshot and it sails

Crowd cheers

Off the crossbar, clang, clank, clatter

Quiet as quiet can be

three seconds left

loose puck

I pick it up

Veins as cold as ice

Shoot and score!

The crowd cheers champs champs champs!

-Zackary Lillie

Hard work

is

Blood

Sweat

and tears

a pounding heart

It's not easy

Like winning a world series or an N.B.A championship

Hard

Is tough

but

when you do

You can

Accomplish

Success is so simpatico

Like

Getting a 100 in L.A 107

hard

Anything and everything

It all takes

Hard work

-Will  Baumann

The Beach

The heat lingering on the back of my neck

The feet in the rough, beige, warm, sand

The breeze quivering trees

Playing tag in the distance

With my grandma

Eating peaches

My everlasting wishes

Coming true in an instant

With love in our hearts

With kindness in our souls

With a gentle breeze

A regretless, rememberable, ravishing night

At the beach

-Mariana Cuevas-Ruiz