Whirlwind 10th Anniversary Edition: Longfellow's Literary Magazine for 2019-2020

Whirlwind
I Didn’t Know I Loved School
(inspired by Nazim Hikmet’s “Things I Didn’t
Know I Loved…”)
I didn't know I loved
School.
Yes, to get my education,
But mainly to talk with my friends.
Now, if we are within six feet,
They become afraid of me
Like an ugly rat
They don't want to be near.
I didn't know I loved
Being around people.
Now, I will never know
What it is like
To have a last day
Of seventh grade.
~Peyton R.
I Didn’t Know I Loved Getting Up at 6:15
(inspired by Nazim Hikmet’s “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved…”)
I didn't know I loved getting up at 6:15,
As tired as someone who just got off an airplane,
their internal clock
3 hours behind.
I didn't know I loved switching classes,
Navigating crowded hallways from one side of
Longfellow to another,
Within only 4 minutes.
I didn't know I loved having a schedule,
Always having something to do,
Attending a class, working on homework, never being
bored.
But now the COVID-19 has taken it all away from me,
I miss going to school.
~John F.
I Am An Agenda
I am an agenda
I hear pencils’ graphite touching my
crisp, clean pages
I see students’ stressed faces
I want to be used for something other
than school
I see a world of possibilities until I am
shoved into a backpack
I want to be more than a hall pass
I am an agenda
I want to expand my usage
I am a locker pass
I feel a ballpoint pen doodling on me
as a kid feels weary of class
I dream of the future where I can stay
white for the whole year
I try to remind scholars of their
academics but I fail
I hope to become a helpful studying
tool and not just a periodic table
I am a planner
~Hana K.
Covid Sucks ~Lisa H.
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