The following poems are group poems written by the children of The Vancouver Public Library Book Camp. The subjects given for the poems have been included as the titles so that you can see where they started and where they ended up. A special thank you to all that participated! It was an amazing experience and we look forward to your future publications. City New York is a phoenix that keeps rising from the dust yet it is a footprint on an endless beach. The streets are the etched lined of the foot. Busses are connecting people with places. Street signs are the never ending mazes of New York. Cell phone ring tones are the song that you can’t get out of your head. The people are a flood always going on. People are the blood flowing to keep the city alive. Alive is the city, forever awake. Each building is but a strand of hair. Like a wart on the face of the earth the lights are the eyes that have gone to sleep in a black-out haze. The blackness holds an eternal silence Alive but dead the city sleeps in blackness. Like a phoenix the city will rise again another mosaic of our world. ~ Composed by the Furious Felines Dragon Green and scaly, his name is Bailey he crawls through the darkness glowing like slime. He rolls in the mud and eats the mud that's chocolate all dirty and filthy he gets a stomach ache. His mouth is red as blood his teeth are white as pearls they glisten in the sun. he eats a hotdog bun and finishes his day with lots of fun. ~ Composed by the Dangerous Dolphins CIty Cars are workers for the people who drive them. Cities are giant dollhouses and the people are the dolls. They all go into the giant mall try on clothes and go to Moe’s. After going to Moe’s they hit the road. Roads are like rainbows where there are lots of gigantic and furious cat fights, where there are no more lights and the electricity comes and blinds them. The dolls are put away for another day. ~ Composed by The Carnival Cranes City The screaming people are annoyed waiting for the rock concert to begin. People are arriving at the bus stops to have a ride in traffic. People beg for change at the bus stops weaselling and making false speeches, “I’m blind, I’m Deaf: I need to get to a hostel” but people just walk on. The coyotes prowl in the alleys squirrels are hunting for nuts the rock band is warming up in the distance the buildings stand tall engulfing the crowds in their shadows the pollution makes artificial fog people are still lining up in the ticket booth standing, waiting for it to begin. Someone comes out from behind the curtains and says, “The rock concert begins.” The cement sea sends waves of cars people are happy this time cats and dogs howl in the background busses and cars pull up in masses for the media coverage. The rock star begins to sing a song about the city. ~ Composed by The Jolly Jumping Junipeppers Ocean A bird flying over the sparkling water a fish swimming in the shimmering sea a fish away form that water swimming free away from the water where he used to be. The bird sweeps down and eats the fish flying further and further with his wish. A great white shark is hunting for seals instead he finds a giant eel. The eel saw a swimming fish who knew the bird who got his wish. ~ Composed by The Ancient Aerodactyls Nature Seeds are the beginning of life. They grow into the ballerinas of the forest. Seedlings are like the toddlers of the forest they grow up and Up and UP! Trees are nature’s recyclers. Their branches are hands reaching up to the sky for more… AIR. Lightning may end some trees’ lives but they begin new ones and birds bring messages to god to add more acorn seeds for the chipmunks crystals. Some seeds grow and some seeds die. Some leave something behind. Nature’s cycle begins new growth. Now Mother Nature brings you back to the start of life. ~ Composed by The 13 Mountain Chickens Camp When I go camping I feel a lot. My parents always let me pick the spot. A scorpion will destroy your cot. Sometimes I fell happy; sometimes I feel distraught. Whatever I catch my dad lets me pot. And the general tomato will rule; it’s not a little taught. Banana boy Paul will rule them all. You better be careful or you will be shot. Banana boy Paul will be destroyed by a pot so another great fight will be fought. Camping is very serious….Not. I like camping a lot. Camping is the best and don’t you forget! ~ Composed by The BBBBBB Nature Nature is peace. Nature is being harmed. Nature is a perfect world with very little greed with residents that only take what they need.. Everyone wants to build smoke factories. and cut down trees. It destroys the homes of the bugs and the bees. Animals can be captured and taken away from their homes and families. So we can go on strike to make sure that nothing bad happens to the homes of the animals of the forest and the children who work everyday at school. We can go to government and save the environment and then go talk to a tree. ~ Composed by The Gross Grasshopper Guts Pink Pink is the beads in the wig pink is a gigantic pig pink is the colour that makes you think. Blue stands for the calm and coastal waters blue is someone drowning in the waters blue is the sky that never ends blue stands for the greatest and largest whale. Yellow is the golden sun yellow stands for the light bulb at the top of your head yellow shows when it’s spring yellow is the emotion of all the happy children of the world. Red is the anger that spreads like gas red is the colour that makes our country proud red is the fire that swallows all in its path some animals are red and are rare. Green is toxic in a barrel green is the smell of sweet cut grass green stands for the slimy and jumping frog. Gold is what frames your face gold is like the sun gold is the colour that makes us proud gold is also in the wig. Colours are an infinite possibility these colours belong in the beautiful rainbow. Do not be afraid to show your colours. ~ Composed by The Hairy Harry Potters August 18th-22nd, 2003 Composed by the Vancouver Public Library Book Camp kids Vancouver BC Back to the Kid's Page Home