Poetry I Wrote in High School

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A Dream

A red panda crashes a shiny spring,
So a humongous snowflake may see
Behind that long, high sleigh.
Window creator mustn't invade
People this blessing may duck.
Yet falls a certain displease;
A hate of people.


Sunset

Red clouds grace the sky
Which is painted in blue, pink,
Vivid lavendar.


IT

It sits there
Quiet
You speculate
That it must be
Devoid of all
Hope
It seems to
Solidify the
Already stiff
Air
They seem to
Stare at the cube
With no obvious
Cause
It sits there
Quiet


Home

Now we are here,
We really have come.
Coming to visit,
Our old planet Earth.
We were born
In this world,
And here we have come.
This place is renewal
Of body and soul,
Our heart's desire,
A planet of gold.


Nonlife

The three contemplated
All wonders of the universe,
We couldn't make sense of it,
Yet they knew it had to be.
The couldn't know why they went out there,
I guess we found peace in nothing,
yet nothing was all and everything,
The didn't know why, but it had to be.
We seemed to like it,
However it overwhelmed them,
They couldn't possibly see anything,
Yet we saw all and everything.
It wasn't as if they all did this,
Just those certain special three,
Just us, just we who knew and didn't,
They were the only ones out there.


A Sonnet

On our transversal paths I vaporize.
A fair asessment of a crazy need:
A starry night, bright light shines in my eyes-
The beetle's warning I shall surely heed.

Insect study is entomology
(The fly, the flea the bee the butterfly):
A study of small bug biology
In cabinets in my room for them to lie.

In a black limousine I slowly ride
On route to die. I give a faint ho-hum.
An elevator in which I may hide?
Shall I go to the beat of a new drum?

The butterfly's light wing will tear off clean.
I will know the beat of the tambourine.


Gas

I am a gas-
not unlike helium;
a noble gas-
unable to mix with
the other elements
under most conditions
very rarely am I
found
unalone-
not unlike helium-
I am a gas!
truly noble.


Blood

I wonder if there is enough
Human blood?
To stain the Earth dark red--
Like my red;
The best red;
Blood red--
And leave the green
And dark purple,
I wonder how big
Of a stain I am?
Do They know
How big a volume of
Blood would cover
The earth in dark red?

This page last updated October 25, 1996.
Rachel Olivia Hunter