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The following poems were
written by the children at the Vancouver Public Library Summer Book Camp. Aug 15
- 19, 2005
Friends
Friends cheer you on and encourage
what you are doing.
They
also are caring and respect your feelings.
They
invite you over for a swim
and birthday parties.
They understand you when you are sad and
glad.
You
give them your password.
You
can trust them with your secrets
and tell them your troubles,
share your thoughts
without them laughing.
They
always have time to listen.
Best Friends Rule!!!
~ Jumping Cranes
Adventure
While walking through the landscape
the monkeys prowl above.
My
feet get sore so I make a tent and rest.
I change time zones.
I discover new places, meet a dragon.
I can tell troubles brew.
I want action.
My
fear reacts, I’m terrified.
I fight a vicious battle and savour my
victory.
I head back to my own time zone.
Everybody
awaits me
happy to see my return.
~ Intelligent Iguanas
Adventure
I’m sitting with my mutated frog
in my limo
on the way to the shopping mall
to buy a snoring suitcase for my cow heart
then suddenly we meet this toad
who had a dragon as a side kick
and he breathed fire
all over his Teddy bears body.
And
so I fought him off
with my compass and my mummy
and I threw my cow at him.
My horse came with my jet plane
and bombarded him with pies
of Russia
and he shot ice-cream with him using a pea
shooter.
Then
he went back to the haunted house to go back to sleep
and the dragon died a drastic death
and we buried him with ice-cream.
~ The Breaded army of the Happy Pink Frogs
with Brown Bandanas
Adventure
The sun is shinning as I head out
on the intergalactic path
toward Mars.
The
sun is shining in my face.
If
I let go of the space shell
I’ll be lost in the far reaches of space.
Then
the sun no longer shines
all of a sudden I realize
that there is no light in space.
I need to find a way
to get out of this place.
I feel like the darkness is never ending
and right now we are sending a message to
earth
to save us because we cant just catch a
bus.
I thought I heard a tiger roam
an alien with three eyes and skulls for
hearts
and to our surprise
we delivered three cherry pies
but I don’t think I want to be here
anymore
and now I’m heading for the door of space.
I’m out of space, human darkness is no
more
back to home on the New Jersey Shore.
~ The Angelic Astronomical Anomalous
Arthurs
Adventure
When I slept in class
riding on stars
going to Mars
traveling to outer space
in a space car
riding with the horses
eating a granola bar
sleeping in courses
seeing the sights
climbing the heights’
running with Threstrals
popping popcorn
having much fun
on the run and then my teacher
rapped my desk.
Adventure
I started an adventure
I went to the jungle
to seek my fortune
and I saw a tiger
guarding a treasure.
I killed the tiger with a sphere
and then I fell down
and took the treasure
and there was a curse on it.
It
gave me a headache
until I fainted.
Big
foot
kidnapped me
when we got back to big foots cave.
Then
we escaped when big foot fell asleep.
We
went past him by sprinting
an arrow in our hand just in case.
After
we got out of the cave
we realized we were in Atlantis.
We
found a mummy and a grave yard of ships.
We
used our underwater flashlights,
we explored,
we found a pirate trying to find the
treasure,
we fond the treasure first
and we took it to Tokyo.
Then
we woke up
in our dreams
to realize we were in the VPL.
~ Hooligans
Friends
Friends
compromise
and care for each other.
Friends
share ice cream
pizza and secrets.
Playing fair, unselfishness
explains why people are friends.
Friends make up groups,
are kind,
help you when you are having trouble.
Loving and sharing is how friendship
becomes happy.
Friends
make you happy when you are sad.
Break
up with the friendship
in a bad kind of way,
making up glues a friendship back
together,
~ The Eager Readers
Adventure
You warp to the ice age where a squirrel
loses his acorn,
A dragon eats up your lap top, gets
indigestion.
You
distract it with Alka Seltzer then you warp to India
where you play 150 video games that are
all fantasy.
You
make your way inside them
with the power of the imagination and
friendship.
Throughout
the land of mystery you
find a temple
that brings you back to your original
planet.
Now
we fear video games, the ice age and India.
A small part of you wants to create a
video game of your virtual self.
At
home you get a backpack, a water bottle and lunch box
and you travel back to your fears.
~
The Fire Fox
Friends
Friends
We eat beans together
but sometimes after she can be a little mean.
Her mouth is always open but her ears are too.
Sometimes we talk on MSN.
Sometimes we talk on the phone.
But I know when I talk to her I will never be a lone.
The Scream
Far far away
we are having an adventure
in the Artic.
We run into Polar Bears.
They try and kill us but we escape.
We set up a fire
but it rains so we set it up again.
But it rains again.
We're all alone in this dark.
We tell ghost stories
and we all get scared and scream.
We hear a wolf howl and we scream even more.
A screech pierces the air and we scream
our heads off
and then we are headless.
We can no longer see.
We run around in circles
until we get really tired
and we re-tie our heads by groping
until we bump into them.
We sew them back on
but then we realize they re all mixed up.
The polar bears return and end our misery.
They walk off in the sunset.
~ Cracker Jackal Jacks
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